Five-Minute Comics: Part 4
Five-Minute Comics: Unpublished |
Posted on am xkcd browser for Android, instead of the correct comic 940: Oversight (an oversight by their part!) |
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Explanation
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This explanation may be incomplete or incorrect: Just created the page, instead of having the comic only shown as an image posted on 940: Oversight which now links to this instead of having the five minute mark. Please begin to explain the comic as for the other three five minutes comics. If you can address this issue, please edit the page! Thanks. |
This is an unpublished "five-minute comics" by Randall that was released as an oversightof someone on one of the unofficial xkcd browsers for Android, instead of the correct comic 940: Oversight. Interestingly, it contains an early version of 942: Juggling, which was published less than a week after this comic, thus indicating that this indeed a true unpublished Randall comic.
Here is a complete list of the comics in the entire Five-minute comics series:
- 819: Five-Minute Comics: Part 1
- 820: Five-Minute Comics: Part 2
- 821: Five-Minute Comics: Part 3
- Five-Minute Comics: Unpublished
Transcript
Comic #1
Comic #2
Comic #3
Comic #4
Comic #5
Comic #6
Comic #7
Comic #8
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Discussion
How is this unpublished? Although only through an app, this comic has still been issued for distribution to the public, therefore, by definition, published. Forrest (talk)14:41, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the great explanation (also by but not just by Forrest). I found the link to it from the explanation for 940, and though we really lacked this page. As I did not know all the info I just called it unpublished. And then I actually hoped that someone would explain this comic, and you all did, and it is a great work. Especially finding out why it is here etc. Thanks :-) And great that it was saved because some of them are really funny --Kynde (talk) 21:06, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
I just wanted to add that the forum post about this comic notes that this comic was accidentally posted by the site admins for xkcd, then later replaced with the current version of the comic, i.e. 940: Oversight. The direct image URL for this comic now points to this image. Thus, the comic was not published through the unofficial xkcd app or anything like that; the more likely scenario is that the app downloaded the comic when it became available and cached it, so when the comic was replaced with 940: Oversight, the app did not update it. 03:58, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
Isn't the joke in the first comic that one of the players is holding a tennis racquet and the other a baseball bat? 141.101.66.227 08:07, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
Concerning the Muezzin calling for "submission" instead of prayer - has anyone noticed yet that the arabic word for "submission" is "Islam"? Seems more deliberate than accidental to me. 141.101.76.58 14:03, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
- Of course it's deliberate. It's referring to submission to Allah - most deistic religions call for some form of submission to their God or gods.172.69.194.227 13:59, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
- Oh wait, sorry, I think I get what you mean now! 172.70.86.79 14:15, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
I don't know if anyone else thought this, but in the last panel of the "Wizard of Oz" comic, I thought that Dorothy had some sort of knife sticking out of the top of her skull, presumably thrown by the robot as an attack. It took me a while to realise that it's actually (probably) just one of her pigtails. 172.71.242.137 14:38, 18 December 2023 (UTC)