8: Red spiders - Revision history

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‎Explanation: Removed unnecessary doubt. It's been about 2,800 comics since the last in the series. I think it's done.

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 ==Explanation==
-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.
+This comic is the first in an arc of comics, spaced out over 3 years, 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.
 The title text and the original caption note that the spiders in this comic have six legs, while most spiders have eight legs each.

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 The title text and the original caption note that the spiders in this comic have six legs, while most spiders have eight legs each.
-The full series of [[:Category:Red Spiders|Red Spiders]] comics:
+This comic was the first in the '[[:Category:Red Spiders|Red Spiders]]' comic series, with each entry listed here:
 *[[8: Red Spiders]], this one
 *[[43: Red Spiders 2]], in which the spiders begin building.

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 | date      = September 30, 2005
 | 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>
+| ognumber  = 8
 | image     = red_spiders_small.jpg
-| 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<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!
 }}
-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.
+This was the eighth comic [[LiveJournal|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.
 ==Explanation==

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 }}
 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.
 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.

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 [[Category:Posted on LiveJournal| 08]]
 [[Category:First day on LiveJournal| 08]]
-[[Category:First day on xkcd]]
+[[Category:First day on xkcd.com]]
 [[Category:Comics with color]]
 [[Category:Checkered paper]]
 [[Category:Red Spiders]]
 [[Category:Comics sharing name|Red Spiders01]]

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 ==Explanation==
 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.
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 ==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.]
 {{comic discussion}}

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 ==Trivia==
-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 13 comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30th, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
+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 30th, 2005, on the first day of the xkcd LiveJournal account.
 {{comic discussion}}