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Irregular Webcomic! is a web comic created by David Morgan-Mar, an Australian scientist. The comic is illustrated primarily with LEGO-block toy people.
Irregular Webcomic! updates every single day, ironically making it one of the more regular webcomics out there, with additional strips available fortnightly to subscribers of Pyramid magazine. It has several different 'themes', which have their own characters, with isolated story arcs and occasional crossovers. Some of the comics have annotations, sometimes with an explanation of the humour involved, a behind-the-scenes look at how a comic was made, or an explanation of an obscure reference. In the latter case, Morgan-Mar sometimes links to Wikipedia articles.
Themes
- Cliffhangers: Dr Montana "Monty" Jones, his father Dr North Dakota Jones, and grandfather Minnesota Jones battle Nazis, led by Hitler's brain in a jar. The characters are a parody of Indiana Jones.
- Pirates: Pirates who talk like stereotypical pirates.
- Espionage: A scene-by-scene re-telling of the James Bond film, Dr. No. James Stud, under the direction of Ñ, equipped by armourer Ü, flirts with Miss Geltschilling.
- Space: Science fiction themed strips here. They spend some of their time in a CG environment (here they appear as Lego minifigs, instead of the normal painted figurines), and some on their ship. The ship's computer steals idle computer power from the past. This gives them massive processor power, but brings a whole new meaning to the Blue screen of death when life support is dependant on it.
- Fantasy: Here, the figurines embody the players in a role playing game with the creator of the comic himself playing the Gamemaster. They were set a quest, but have yet to even get started.
- Star Wars: Basically allows the author to put words in the mouths of Star Wars characters. This lets him point out ome of the problems and idiosyncracies in the Star Wars universe. The physical impossibilities of the existence of Coruscant using canonical dimensions and thermodynamic laws was a story arc.
- Harry Potter: Same as with the Star Wars theme, lets you see another side to Harry Potter.
- Steve and Terry: Steve Irwin and his wife Terry make documentaries, wrestle crocodiles, and fight ungodly beasts from the beyond. Jane Goodall has made appearances to try to keep Steve in check.
- Martians: Martians. On Mars. Mainly like to make fun of earthlings. They encountered the Mars Rovers.
- Supers: Specially drawn comics which only crop up occasionally, but that doesn't stop them being some of the most detailed, crazy takes on Superhero comics.
- Nigerian Finance Minister: Ever wonder who writes those annoying scam e-mails? Well it turns out it really was the Nigerian Finance Minister. How is he supposed to get any work done when nobody answers his e-mails? He hired Death and Shakespeare to write emails.
- Me: Morgan-Mar makes cameo appearances as himself. The 'Me' theme does not include his appearances as the GM in the 'Fantasy' theme.
- DEATH: The basic theory is that there is one grim reaper (called a Death) for every kind of death there is. Not confusing at all. For example if somebody dies by being sat on by a giant frog, in comes 'Death by being sat on by a giant frog'. Head Death controls all other Deaths, and promotes and demotes as he sees fit.
The main Death of the comic was originally 'Death of insanely overpowered fireballs', then demoted to 'sat on by a giant frog', was then fired and worked for the Nigerian Finance Ministry for a while, then rehired as 'insanely overpowered fireballs', demoted to 'Living For Over 900 Years', and finally transferred out of the Death department to the Fates department, to become "A Fate worse than Death".
Deaths have appeared to 'collect' in most of the other themes in the Comic at one time or another. At the present time, he has yet to appear in the espianoge, supers, or Shakespeare themes.
Occasionally, Cthulhu shows up, usually summoned by Steve Irwin.
There are often oddly themed crossovers in the comic, like Steve Irwin being fired by Professor Dumbledore at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
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