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| | | date = September 30, 2005 | | | date = September 30, 2005 |
| | | title = Red Spiders | | | title = Red Spiders |
| − | | before = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Spiders,-They%27re%20not%20spiders Original title</span>]: '''Spiders'''</big></big> | + | | image = Red Spiders.jpg |
| − | | image = red_spiders_small.jpg | + | | imagesize = |
| − | | titletext = They are six-legged spiders<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=8%3A41%20pm-,Spiders,-They%27re%20not%20spiders Original caption</span>]: They're not spiders; they have six legs! | + | | titletext = They are six-legged spiders |
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| | ==Explanation== | | ==Explanation== |
| − | This was the eighth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[13: Canyon]], and the next one was [[6: Irony]]. It was among the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|first thirteen comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
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| − | This comic is the first in an arc of comics, spaced out over 3 years (so far), in which Red Spiders are seen attacking humans. Its objective is not to be funny, philosophical, or scientifically interesting; it just tells a story, in a {{w|Questionable Content}}-esque way. Interestingly, the red spiders actually more closely resemble {{w|opiliones}}, the order of {{w|arachnids}} that includes the {{w|Pholcidae|Daddy Longlegs}}, and which are actually more closely related to mites than to spiders.
| + | ==Trivia== |
| − | | + | *[Quote from [[Randall]]] "They're not spiders; they have six legs!" |
| − | The title text and the original caption note that the spiders in this comic have six legs, while most spiders have eight legs each.
| + | *Original title "Spiders" |
| − | | + | *Originally posted at [[Randall]]'s livejournal site. |
| − | The full series of [[:Category:Red Spiders|Red Spiders]] comics:
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| − | *[[8: Red Spiders]], this one
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| − | *[[43: Red Spiders 2]], in which the spiders begin building.
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| − | *[[47: Counter-Red Spiders]], in which the humans begin a counter-offensive. | |
| − | *[[126: Red Spiders Cometh]], in which the spiders attack a city. | |
| − | *[[427: Bad Timing]], in which, in a style more typical to xkcd, the spiders attack a couple in the middle of a serious relationship discussion in a hot-air balloon.
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| − | *[[442: xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel]], in which it appears briefly in the 14th panel crawling over a cube
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| | ==Transcript== | | ==Transcript== |
| − | :[Many six-legged red spiders standing on and hanging from cuboids. The cuboids hang in the air with no visible means of support. Some of the spiders have made a bridge out of themselves.]
| + | [Many red spiders standing on and hanging from cuboids. The cuboids hang in the air with no visible means of support.] |
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| − | [[Category:Red Spiders]]
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| − | [[Category:Comics sharing name|Red Spiders01]]
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