Line #35 Webcomic/SpellingTheVacuum


1	-->''"Why would you try to spell a vacuum?"''\
2	--'''What You're Probably Thinking Right Now'''
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4	''Vacuumland, 1996'': An inexplicable accident of chance creates a sentient vacuum with an attitude. His name is Spelling.
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6	The first five 'chapters' were plotted out as part of a larger arc centered on the prophecy of the Errant One and Bono the Cat's ambition to TakeOverTheWorld. The sixth introduced a new old nemesis of Stooge's with a grudge, and the seventh involved TimeTravel before the author got sick of that dragging on and [[AbortedArc swerved abruptly]] in a different direction.
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8	The site, www.room931.com, was taken down sometime in 2008, circa two years after the last strip was posted--which itself was only posted after a six month lapse, as [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in said final strip. Once upon a time, it also shared a forum site with ''Webcomic/ZeldaComic'' at inksandwich.com.
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10	[[http://web.archive.org/web/20190706210729/http://www.spellingthevacuum.com/ Spelling the Vacuum]]'s archives can be found via the Wayback Machine.
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12	Tropes:
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14	* AbortedArc: Right in the middle of the action.
15	* AchillesHeel: Villain Ray's weakness is the fact that his powers are powered by self-esteem.
16	* ActionGirl: The Jew.
17	* ArtEvolution: Lampshaded in a fight during the TimeTravel arc... unrelatedly to the TimeTravel, though. "Did the author just change the art style ''again?''"
18	* AuthorAppeal: Lampshaded by Stooge during his short OutOfClothesExperience: "I dunno, probably just an excuse so the author can draw me naked."
19	* BackFromTheDead: As well as ToHellAndBack.
20	* CameBackWrong: Bono's sexuality switched orientations.
21	* CampGay: Bono, to his own horror, after his return from the dead.
22	* TheChosenOne: Spelling is The Errant One.
23	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Jew doesn't seem to have another name; neither does The Convert (who, incidentally, converted to Judaism.)
24	* EvilOverlord: Bono.
25	* GrammarNazi: The Fairy of Good Grammar.
26	* ItsPopularNowItSucks:[[invoked]] Conversationally described by Stooge in an early strip.
27	* LightningCanDoAnything: Spelling's birth, from the union of the super-intelligence of a Mr. Spell machine, and the body of a vacuum.
28	* LiteralGenie: The frog statue, in "Look, It's Vaguely Like Ghostbusters." Genie-free, non-wish-granting magical loophole example: Fairy wands can only be wielded by fairies, but the definition of 'fairy' includes the homophobic slur.
29	* NoFourthWall
30	* OutOfClothesExperience
31	* ReligionIsMagic: Specifically, Judaism = superpowers.
32	* TerminatorTwosome: The AbortedArc.
33	* ThemeNaming: Three named vacuums are Spelling, Dictionary, and Homework. As in, things that [[spoiler:''suck'']]. The author admits he came up with this [[{{Pun}} Incredibly Lame Pun]] in Junior High.
34	* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: On being ''born'', Spelling's first words were "'Sup, bitches?"
35	* ToHellAndBack
36	* TheUnreveal: Vacuum sex is always just offscreen; WordOfGod says it's not explicit, just "very hard to draw."
37	%%*WackyCravings [Can't remember if that trope was there. Probably other PregnancyTropes? Is there one about 'pregnant women are crazy and have a temper'?]

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