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* PublicDomainStories: Each strip includes a copyright line along with its date in the archive. If these dates are taken seriously, then all but the tiniest, most recent fraction of the archive has expired copyrights, or rather, predate the concept of copyright. Given the lack of reasonable copyright date markings, the legal weight of the CC-BY-NC-SA restrictions is nearly as ambiguous as [[UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} copyright itself]].
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* PublicDomainStories: Each strip includes a copyright line along with its date in the archive. If these dates are taken seriously, then all but the tiniest, most recent fraction of the archive has expired copyrights, or rather, predate the concept of copyright. Given the lack of reasonable copyright date markings, the legal weight of the CC-BY-NC-SA restrictions is nearly as ambiguous as [[UsefulNotes/{{Copyright}} [[MediaNotes/{{Copyright}} copyright itself]].
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* AprilFoolsDay: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1547 This strip]] does the entire point of the webcomic in reverse for an April Fools gag. Rather than it being just broken image links, there actually is a comic someone drew.
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* AprilFoolsDay: [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1547 This strip]] does the entire point of the webcomic in reverse for an April Fools gag. Rather than it being just broken image links, there actually is a comic someone drew.drew... but it has no commentary underneath it.
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* BlackComedy: Discussed in comic [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1666 #1666]].
-->''Dark humour is the least preferred, due to its subject. Suicide gags, deaths, serious illnesses, and other things of that sort are to be expected. These are best used least, but when done properly they can be quite hilarious.''
-->''Dark humour is the least preferred, due to its subject. Suicide gags, deaths, serious illnesses, and other things of that sort are to be expected. These are best used least, but when done properly they can be quite hilarious.''
* NoodleImplements: The entire punchline of the comic is that [[spoiler:there are no actual images behind the submissions, just the author's comments]]. Thus, many of the comments wind up describing outlandish scenarios we'll never understand the full context of. [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1670 #1670]] is a typical example:
-->''Allow me to tell you the story of why old man Hubert is no longer allowed to handle anything made of platinum and how it ties in to when I finally managed to remove that ant nest from my neighbours' attic...''
-->''Allow me to tell you the story of why old man Hubert is no longer allowed to handle anything made of platinum and how it ties in to when I finally managed to remove that ant nest from my neighbours' attic...''
* ToiletHumor: In comic [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1666 #1666]], the author gives a giant rant about how much they hate toilet humor.
-->''This one is never done right, so it's never really funny. Too many TV shows and movies are too much into this one. It's overused. It's pointless. It's stupid. I absolutely hate this kind of humour. I don't even know why I put it on this list.''
-->''This one is never done right, so it's never really funny. Too many TV shows and movies are too much into this one. It's overused. It's pointless. It's stupid. I absolutely hate this kind of humour. I don't even know why I put it on this list.''
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%%* NoodleImplements: Along with NoodleIncident, this is pretty much the entire point of the strip.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: The author [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=1687 had a character assigned]] to write a 300 word paper on Julius Caesar because they got the same assignment as a kid.
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* SeverelySpecializedStore: In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=5006 #5006]], the author recounts going into a beachside story called Cecil's. The only items the store had in stock were art supplies and batteries.
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* SeverelySpecializedStore: In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=5006 #5006]], the author recounts going into a beachside story store called Cecil's. The only items the store had in stock were art supplies and batteries.
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* BrandX: In [[https://mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=4999 #4999]], the comic excises all its brand names due to new advertising laws. This includes replacing a branded soft drink with a new one called ''Can of Drink''.
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* SeverelySpecializedStore: In [[https://www.mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=5006 #5006]], the author recounts going into a beachside story called Cecil's. The only items the store had in stock were art supplies and batteries.
-->''Nobody on the boardwalk needs batteries and art supplies. Cecil really needs to get his priorities in order.''
-->''Nobody on the boardwalk needs batteries and art supplies. Cecil really needs to get his priorities in order.''
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%%* SturgeonsLaw: Mitigated by the inclusion of a Hall of Fame for top-rated comics.
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* ChristmasCreep: [[https://mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=853 #853]]'s author comments that it annoys him when stores sell Christmas merchandise in mid-October.
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* ShoutOut: The description of [[https://mezzacotta.net/postcard/?comic=4996 #4996]], "I don't like change and I ''am'' afraid," is a reference to the Music/GoodKid song "No Time to Explain," which features the lyrics "I said I don't like change, but I'm not afraid."
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** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1569-02-14 This strip]] is even a ShoutOut to Wiki/TVTropes itself.
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** [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=1569-02-14 This strip]] is even a ShoutOut to Wiki/TVTropes Website/TVTropes itself.
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-->The webcomic that broke Wiki/TVTropes.
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-->The webcomic that broke Wiki/TVTropes.Website/TVTropes.
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* '''mezzacotta''', a webcomic "with two people talking to each other. Mostly." Though it launched in October 10, 2008, its archive of daily strips extends significantly farther into the past. The archive contains strips for every day that has passed since the introduction of ''Darths & Droids'', ''Irregular Webcomic!'', ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', the World Wide Web, the year David Morgan-Mar was born, [[OlderThanTelevision television broadcasts]], [[OlderThanRadio radio]], [[OlderThanSteam the steam engine]], [[OlderThanPrint the printing press]], [[OlderThanFeudalism the fall of Rome]], and so on. The "earliest" strip in its archive [[OlderThanDirt is supposedly 9,986,270 million years older than the presumed age of the Universe]].[[note]]If you want to know where the comics ''really'' come from, they are [[spoiler: generated by a fractal algorithm seeded from the "publication date".]][[/note]] One could, perhaps, think of it as the [[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Webcomic of Babel]]... or maybe the [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves Webcomic of Leaves]]. You can find the "first" one '''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-01-01 here]]'''.
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* '''mezzacotta''', a webcomic "with two people talking to each other. Mostly." Though it launched in October 10, 2008, its archive of daily strips extends significantly farther into the past. The archive contains strips for every day that has passed since the introduction of ''Darths & Droids'', ''Irregular Webcomic!'', ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', the World Wide Web, the year David Morgan-Mar was born, [[OlderThanTelevision television broadcasts]], [[OlderThanRadio radio]], [[OlderThanSteam the steam engine]], [[OlderThanPrint the printing press]], [[OlderThanFeudalism the fall of Rome]], and so on. The "earliest" strip in its archive [[OlderThanDirt is supposedly 9,986,270 million years older than the presumed age of the Universe]].[[note]]If you want to know where the comics ''really'' come from, they are [[spoiler: generated by a fractal algorithm seeded from the "publication date".]][[/note]] One could, perhaps, think of it as the [[Creator/JorgeLuisBorges Webcomic of Babel]]... or maybe the [[Literature/HouseOfLeaves Webcomic of Leaves]]. You can find the "first" one '''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-01-01 here]]'''.\\
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