History Webcomic / Academia

* CanadaEh: The comic is set in Toronto and most of the characters are Canadian, and yet so far, there have been no particularly Canada-based jokes.

You can read it [[http://academia.thecomicseries.com/ here]]. The comic debuted in September 2012 and the latest comic was posted in May 2013 before the comic stopped updating without explanation.

You can read it [[http://academia.thecomicseries.com/ here]].

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Zelig the octopus

** Pasha's character page features a variation on the ''HyperboleAndAHalf'' "Clean all the things" meme, and Jack's has a doodle of [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Trogdor]].

** Gloriana has one of CharlesDarwin, labelled "[[Music/PublicEnemy Chuck D]]".

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Averted with NiceGuy Jack, but probably a deliberate invocation of this trope, since his character page describes him as "easy to resent".

-->'''Stephen''': I used to be a serious scientist.\\

'' '''Academia''' '', "the webcomic for the intellectual in all of us", is a [[SliceOfLifeWebcomics slice-of-life webcomic]] about a pair of undergraduate students with different majors and different outlooks, who [[OddCouple live together]] in Toronto. Stephen Janzen Gould is a high-strung, prickly ambitious student of neurobiology and immunology, who is making a genuine effort to be a more pleasant person to be around without compromising his academic future, and dealing with a minor inferiority complex. Pavel "Pasha" Moskowitz is a gigantic and affable Russian Jew with a double major in music and philosophy, easygoing but for his nightmares of ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' and the occasional philosophical quandary.

'' '''Academia''' '', "the webcomic for the intellectual in all of us", is a [[SliceOfLifeWebcomics slice-of-life webcomic]] about a pair of undergraduate students with different majors and different outlooks, who [[OddCouple live together]] in Toronto. Stephen Janzen Gould is a high-strung, prickly ambitious student of neurobiology and immunology, who is making a genuine effort to be a more pleasant person to be around without compromising his academic future, and dealing with a minor inferiority complex. Pavel "Pasha" Moskowitz is a gigantic and affable Russian Jew with a double major in music and philosophy, easygoing but for his nightmares of ''[[TheDivineComedy Inferno]]'' and the occasional philosophical quandary.

* NonIndicativeName: "I Thought [[TheDivineComedy Comedies]] Were Supposed To Be Funny"

** Pasha's character page features a variation on the ''HyperboleAndAHalf'' "Clean all the things" meme, and Jack's has a doodle of [[HomestarRunner Trogdor]].

* CthulHumanoid: Invoked by Pasha.

* ArtShift: Pasha's dream sequences are done in the style of Creator/GustavDore 's illustrations for ''Literature/TheDivineComedy''.

* ArtShift: Pasha's dream sequences are done in the style of Gustav Dore's illustrations for ''TheDivineComedy''.

* AllJewsAreAshkenazi: Pasha.

** Gloriana has one of CharlesDarwin, labelled "[[PublicEnemy Chuck D]]".

** "[[MemeticMutation Socially Awkward]] [[Literature/HarryPotter Voldemort]]".

* GeniusBonus: Probably the most important thing about the comic.