Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: literature

• 537 - Pericles, Prince of Tyre; The Merchant of Venice
• 734 - Twelfth Night
• 1083 - 1930s European history; Stalin; communism; Animal Farm
• 1192 - Lorem ipsum
• 1424 - Yeti; H.P. Lovecraft; Pluto; definition of a planet; Kuiper belt
• 1481 - Petards; being hoist thereon; Hamlet
• 1490 - The Last Supper; conspiracy theories; The Da Vinci Code
• 1497 - Balrogs; the physical appearance thereof
• 1503 - Technobabble
• 1659 - Moby-Dick; self-destructive vengeance; Khan Noonien Singh; Cetus
• 1787 - Macbeth
• 1817 - Narrative causality
• 2042 - Time travel in literature; fixed time; stable time loops
• 2081 - Time travel in literature; parallel universes
• 2088 - Time travellers in literature; H. G. Wells
• 2104 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• 2153 - Cheshire cats and the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's version
• 2191 - Chekhov's gun
• 2218 - As You Like It
• 2315 - Ben Jonson
• 2526 - Fonts and typefaces
• 2567 - Time travel in literature; time and space travel
• 2665 - Time machines in literature
• 2676 - Snarks and boojums
• 3031 - Baba Yaga
• 3050 - Kennings
• 3101 - Scottish dwarves
• 3138 - Words coined by Shakespeare
• 3323 - Footnotes
• 3326 - Corners and angles
• 3375 - Terry Pratchett
• 3411 - Fantasy maps in books
• 3455 - Short stories; Callahan's Crosstime Saloon; NaNoWriMo
• 3694 - Free verse versus blank verse
• 3740 - Creative writing; writing game adventures; writing comics
• 3746 - Robin Hood as a literary archetype
• 4000 - Large round number years in fiction; Dungeons & Dragons Ravnica
• 4017 - Willow trees; the Whomping Willow
• 4051 - "Invoke"; alliteration versus assonance
• 4094 - Etymology and pronunciation of "lich"; usage in fantasy literature
• 4118 - The myth of Endymion; John Keats's Endymion
• 4121 - Shakespeare's birthplace
• 4170 - Trolls in Tolkien and Dungeons & Dragons
• 4255 - The Cat in the Hat and the size of Little Cat Z
• 4294 - Buried pirate treasure; Treasure Island and influences
• 4414 - The setting of Romeo and Juliet
• 4472 - Fee-fi-fo-fum; Jack the folk hero
• 4624 - Literary canon
• 4651 - Misattribution of quotes
• 4665 - Number of Balrogs in Tolkien's works
• 4736 - Edward Wollstonecraft

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