Line #5 MissingEpisode/WebComics


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3	Even before the [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes whole website went under]], many ''Webcomic/SpikedMath'' comics had been removed. In particular, it seems like comics involving sex and/or stereotypes were more likely to be taken down. The missing comics were skipped in the archive and by the prev/next buttons, but the random button could still try to send you to one, which would give you a 404 page. Here's a mostly complete list of missing comics:
4	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107230739/http://spikedmath.com/006.html 006 - Clever Alex]]: Alex wants to know if a girl is under 16 before he "roots" her.
5	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107200159/http://spikedmath.com/021.html 021 - Flowers]]: Albert the flower feels left out because he's the only one whose number of petals is not a Fibonacci number.
6	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107213150/http://spikedmath.com/023.html 023 - I Like My Girls]]: A girl and a guy mention their preferences in men/women and numbers.
7	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614191743/http://spikedmath.com/024.html 024 - Fractalman]]: Fractalman, a superhero whose power is "I have lots of penises".
8	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622055846/http://spikedmath.com/026.html 026 - Mathematicians]]: Shows that mathematicians may say something like "7.43" if asked for a number between 1 and 10.
9	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622070543/http://spikedmath.com/029.html 029 - New Bike]]: An old sex joke in comic form.
10	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625042936/http://spikedmath.com/032.html 032 - Your Mom]]: Math-flavoured YourMom jokes.
11	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624213211/http://spikedmath.com/033.html 033 - Why Math?]]: Because sudoku, apparently.
12	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624220928/http://spikedmath.com/036.html 036 - Difference Between Numbers And People]]: It's a period joke. The original version contains an ambiguous statement whose most obvious interpretation is false (a number with a decimal point ''can'' be irrational), which is pointed out in the "fixed" version on the same page.
13	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625012228/http://spikedmath.com/047.html 047 - Love Tunnel]]: 2 and 5 ride a love tunnel.
14	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107222508/http://spikedmath.com/061.html 061 - Almost Every Graph]]: Albert the graph feels left out because he doesn't have [=K3=] (basically a triangle) as a subgraph.
15	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107135630/http://spikedmath.com/065.html 065 - Stupid Question]]: A student asks a stupid question.
16	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107204647/http://spikedmath.com/066.html 066 - He Figured It Out]]: A strange comic in which a gay mathematician figures out that "straight + beer = gay" and buys a lot of beer.
17	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107220950/http://spikedmath.com/070.html 070 - Don't Forget To Bring A Towel]]: A professor has to teach while wearing a ''towel'' because his crazy ex-wife took his money.
18	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107144059/http://spikedmath.com/084.html 084 - Finally Got A Job]]: Alex gets a job at a fast food restaurant after getting his [=PhD=].
19	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624175410/http://spikedmath.com/090.html 090 - Squeeze Theorem]]: A woman suggests using the Squeeze Theorem to calculate a limit... and the man decides to squeeze her boobs.
20	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624204442/http://spikedmath.com/108.html 108 - Matchmaking]]: A comic where numbers are paired up with corresponding logarithms. The creator admitted that this was a reject comic.
21	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624212920/http://spikedmath.com/130.html 130 - New Years]]: A mathematician counts down using prime numbers.
22	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625030702/http://spikedmath.com/138.html 138 - I Like My Women Like I Like My Math]]: "Easy and at a high school level"
23	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624183937/http://spikedmath.com/145.html 145 - Living in a Nullspace]]: According to this comic, if you live with a woman, all your money will get mapped to zero. The comic also calls men rational, but very dense.
24	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624231402/http://spikedmath.com/148.html 148 - Alice's Brackets]]: A comic that uses coordinates like (0,0) to represent breasts.
25	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624215209/http://spikedmath.com/158.html 158 - Millenium Prize Problems]]
26	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624211005/http://spikedmath.com/160.html 160 - Professors, sigh.]]: Professors argue about which type of math is more important.
27	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625014333/http://spikedmath.com/161.html 161 - Favorite Color]]: It's a hex color code.
28	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624203823/http://spikedmath.com/163.html 163 - Sweet Talk]]: A guy uses math puns to say that he find a girl sexy, and asks if she wants to 69.
29	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625025005/http://spikedmath.com/167.html 167 - Meeting Girls]]: A mathematician tries to explain his occupation in layman's terms. The girl understands what kind of math he's talking about.
30	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107144134/http://spikedmath.com/169.html 169 - Bullies Can Be So Mean 2]]: A group of cubes bully a graph for being "plain". Oddly, the other comic about cube bullies (022) is still online.
31	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625012452/http://spikedmath.com/170.html 170 - Cauchy-Schwartz Inequality]]: Hermann Schwarz is frustrated that people keep misspelling his name as "Schwarts"
32	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624183909/http://spikedmath.com/171.html 171 - 171]]: The comic is an empty white rectangle. Caption: "I'm not as clever as Mr Burke".
33	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625000137/http://spikedmath.com/179.html 179 - I really really love lie algebras!]]: A guy puts a Lie algebra book into his pants.
34	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624222234/http://spikedmath.com/204.html 204 - j]]: A comic that mocks people who use ''j'' instead of ''i'' to represent the imaginary unit.
35	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625000235/http://spikedmath.com/220.html 220 - Dirty Physics]]: A "comic in 11 dimensions", where the dirty stuff is hidden behind the 6th and 9th.
36	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624172815/http://spikedmath.com/222.html 222 - Sesame Street]]: A The Count parody who can't count.
37	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624233232/http://spikedmath.com/223.html 223 - Terence Tao]]: A female math cartoonist dreams that Terence Tao, who is coming to give a math lecture, will reveal that he loves her comics and propose to her.
38	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624225716/http://spikedmath.com/226.html 226 - Bayesian Interference]]: A guy tries to calculate the probability of having sex tonight.
39	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624181749/http://spikedmath.com/227.html 227 - Pranks]]: Tells you that mathematicians are not much of pranksters.
40	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625031334/http://spikedmath.com/231.html 231 - Addictions]]: A comic that portrays a mathematician as addicted to math and mentions that it's considered a respectable career.
41	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120625035039/http://spikedmath.com/232.html 232 - How much math do you know?]]: A comic that claims mathematicians ''think'' they know practically all of it, when the true amount is about 0.35% of it.
42	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120609184221/http://spikedmath.com/233.html 233 - Erdos - Mathematician by day, mathematician by night]]: A comic about Paul Erdős being weird.
43	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120609184019/http://spikedmath.com/235.html 235 - He Loves Me]]: A mathematician ruins a girl's love fantasy by pointing out that most flowers have an odd number of petals.
44	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120622094456/http://spikedmath.com/262.html 262 - Just another day]]: A guy who incorporates pronic numbers into his routine.
45	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120624202954/http://spikedmath.com/263.html 263]]: Uses the URL of a comic, but is actually examples of math-y T-shirt designs.
46	* 266-270 - The adventures of Erdos parts [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107205814/http://spikedmath.com/266.html 1]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107153936/http://spikedmath.com/267.html 2]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153146/http://spikedmath.com/268.html 3]], [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014144814/http://spikedmath.com/269.html 4]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151954/http://spikedmath.com/270.html 5]]: Anecdotes about Paul Erdős.
47	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151536/http://spikedmath.com/281.html 281 - Fun with profs]]: A story told from the perspective of a new grad student.
48	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120315073037/http://spikedmath.com/287.html 287 - The Date Graph]]: A guy uses a graph to find out how many girls he can date at once without getting caught.
49	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151919/http://spikedmath.com/291.html 291 - The first time I tried to prove a theorem]]
50	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153106/http://spikedmath.com/300.html 300 - Mingle with singles]]: Einstein, Rényi and Erdős are going to mingle with singles.
51	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107143214/http://spikedmath.com/304.html 304 - PhD blues]]: A comic that tells you to cope with [=PhD=] blues by comparing yourself to those who are dumber.
52	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107203813/http://spikedmath.com/308.html 308 - Guide to being a successful teacher]].
53	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120122073927/http://spikedmath.com/321.html 321 - Math Halloween Costume Ideas]]: A list of math-themed Halloween costumes.
54	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153141/http://spikedmath.com/334.html 334 - How to drive a mathematician crazy]]: A girl tries the missing dollar riddle on a mathematician. He recognizes the riddle and tries to explain the solution as she starts telling the riddle, but to his frustration, he keeps going.
55	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014151218/http://spikedmath.com/335.html 335 - How to drive a mathematician crazy]]: Similar to the above, except that the mathematician decides to hide his frustration and play along because "OMG! Boob girl is talking to me!!"
56	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152527/http://spikedmath.com/367.html 367 - Ow Man]]: Uses a questionable fraction to explain why a man should always be on top.
57	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152902/http://spikedmath.com/380.html 380 - How would you respond?]]: Mike says that he's a mathematician, and the woman says that he can't be a good one because he seems pretty normal.
58	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014145605/http://spikedmath.com/390.html 390 - The Pigeonhole Principle]]: Lists a few applications of the pigeonhole principle. The last one is proving infidelity.
59	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120107145326/http://spikedmath.com/397.html 397 - Uncommon methods of numerical integration]]: Integration meets dick jokes.
60	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014150208/http://spikedmath.com/399.html 399 - I hate pi day]]: A student hates pi day... until he's informed that it includes chocolate pie.
61	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014145313/http://spikedmath.com/437.html 437 - Assymptote]]: Compares an asymptote to a stripper's ass.
62	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014153156/http://spikedmath.com/467.html 467 - Assistant to the Assistant Managing Editor]]: Is about the frustrations of some poor guy who has to help prepare a proof for a professor, which turns out to be tricky because of the prof's terrible [=LaTeX=] code.
63	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152251/http://spikedmath.com/525.html 525 - Power Set]]: Uses the power set to make a threesome joke.
64	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20121007013316/http://spikedmath.com/528.html 528 - Public Perception]]: Pokes fun at the public perception of mathematicians.
65	* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140915194054/http://spikedmath.com/561.html 561 - Video comics #1 and #2]]: Two video comics. Also, the videos themselves have been deleted from the comic's [=YouTube=] channel.
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69	* ''Webcomic/CoachRandom'': The original form of [[http://coachrandom.zzl.org/Chronological/comic-043.xml Strip #43]] has only been mentioned in the author's (Scott Ruhl) comments. Even the ''webmaster'' of the site has never seen it - although considering the pun involved with the final strip, one can imagine why Scott Ruhl withheld it from publication.
70	* A lot of the original ''Webcomic/{{Magiversity}}'' strips were lost when Platform/TheDuck crashed in 2005, as the creator didn't have backups.
71	* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'':
72	** [[http://images.cryhavok.org/d/1969-1/Penny+Arcade+Strawberry+Shortcake.jpg This]] comic was taken down after a cease-and-desist from American Greetings.
73	** There were three strips that were made exclusively for members of Club PA (a club for everyone who donated to penny-arcade.com in the early 2000s), which were never released to the public. One involved Gabe and Tycho discussing Club PA and its members. Another was an animated strip of Tycho sitting on the couch, looking around and sticking his tongue out, with a caption reading "Tycho might be crazy." The third strip was a sketch of Pac-Man shooting Gabe in the leg. These strips have been posted on the Penny Arcade forums, and they can be viewed [[http://crawlingchaos.org/elder/pa/ClubPA%20gifts/clubpa1.gif here]], [[http://crawlingchaos.org/elder/pa/ClubPA%20gifts/clubpa2.gif here]], and [[http://crawlingchaos.org/elder/pa/ClubPA%20gifts/pacsketch.gif here]].
74	* ''Webcomic/WalkyVerse'':
75	** Most of David Willis's "proto-Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}" strips have been completely removed from his sites. A few were later on brought back when some filler was needed, but the majority are gone. They've since popped up in the first book collection--which then proceeded to spend a good two years or so out-of-print.
76	** The rerunning of ''Webcomic/RoomiesItsWalkyJoyceAndWalky'' at [=BringBackRoomies=].com is dead-set on averting this, turning up everything from out-of-print print-only material to stuff that never made it to the public to begin with. Especially notable is the print-exclusive from the third issue of Keenspot's ''Roomies!'' comic book, which Willis accidentally neglected to put in any of the official collections and thus spent almost a decade completely unavailable.
77	* The website for Website/PlatypusComix is missing several stories from ''Webcomic/{{Mulberry}}'', ''Webcomic/{{Keiki}}'', ''Webcomic/ScrambledEggs'', and the Variety Section. Most of them have apparently become {{Old Shame}}s for creator Peter Paltridge. Examples that should stick out to people who don't read the [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/onlyme/thelist.html list]] he wrote of all the comics he posted on the website include the first ''Mulberry'' comic, the second ''Keiki'' story[[note]]Actually, the part where the archive skips from 1 to 3 skips over more than one story[[/note]], and half of "Raiders of the Lost Arc" (one of the comics found in the Variety Section). Sometimes, he publishes books containing comics he deleted from the website.
78	* While many of ''Webcomic/TheParkingLotIsFull''[='s=] strips are now on a memorial archive site, many others are currently missing from the internet.
79	* A lot of Creator/DavidGonterman's old work from the days he was a big ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' fan are missing, though mostly his web comics. Among those are is the last issue of "Sonic: The Mobius Chronicles" and most of "Sailor Moon USA". His fanfics, on the other hand, are a different story.
80	* Almost the entirety of the original ''Webcomic/ShreddedMoose''. This is because of OldShame of the two creators and the fact it could harm the career of the artist.
81	* Comics #52, 420, and 421 of the ''Webcomic/DysfunctionalFamilyCircus'' have been lost forever.
82	* The original run of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'' was lost to the sands of time when the MSPA Forums went belly up. Various archive sites have the first three pages of the forum thread archived, but the remaining eight seem lost for all intents and purposes.
83	* The websites for both ''Webcomic/{{Smaaaash}}!!'' and ''Webcomic/LudicrousPower'' are defunct. Some of the comics and art associated with ''Smaaaash!!'' can be found [[http://moonside.kontek.net/drawn/ here]], from when the comic was hosted on Kontek; ''Ludicrous Power'' was not so fortunate.
84	* The webcomics of British transportation artist Ruairidh [=MacVeigh=] (the interconnected ''Webcomic/MaddieOnTheIslandHue'', ''Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica'', and ''Webcomic/{{Outsiders}}'', and the unrelated one-shot ''Webcomic/Red348'') have disappeared from the internet after he deleted all of them for reasons unknown, even making them unavailable to purchase on Amazon. ''Webcomic/{{Outsiders}}'' is particularly notable in this regard, as it was ongoing at the time, and its deletion left a lost of loose ends hanging. The last chapter of his forst comic can still be found on [=DeviantArt=] though, as well as excerpts from the first three volumes of ''Webcomic/MaddieInAmerica''.

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