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'''Sokar''': ''Somewhere, Niels Bohr walks among us, unobserved and '''immortal'''''. }}
'''''[http://dresdencodak.com/ Dresden Codak]''''' is a
''Dresden Codak'' is a sometimes [[Dada Comics|Dada]], sometimes [[Mind Screw]] comic focusing on the (mis)adventures of several often unrelated characters:
* Kimiko "Thunderbolt" Ross: A misanthropic, cybernetically-enhanced [[Mad Scientist]].
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The comic also has a number of similarly surreal one-shots, including the page that we adapted into the [[Essential Third Act Twists]].
Updates irregularly.
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* [[Anachronism Stew]]: Kimiko knew that a group of people were time travelers because they were dressed in a mismash of styles from all eras and segments of the 20th century, in a similar fashion to how other centuries are portrayed in modern media.
* [[Arc Symbol]]: the "rising sun" half-circle.
* [[Art Evolution]]: The art quality increases immensely as the comic progressed. For full effect, compare [http://dresdencodak.com/2005/06/08/the-tomorrow-man/ this first strip] to [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/07/the-sleepwalkers/ this more recent strip] and [http://dresdencodak.com/2010/07/10/dark-science-03/ this even more recent strip]. The art is actually starting to get kind of ridiculously detailed. Perhaps not coincidentally, author
* [[Artificial Limbs]]: Kimiko, post-Hob.
* [[Author Appeal]]: Among Diaz's four majors was Anthropology. It shows.
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* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Kaito Kusanagi.
* [[Schedule Slip]]: It has a schedule? (New comics show up basically at random, with time gaps varying from a week to two or three ''months''.)
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* [[Science Is Bad]]: Parodied and taken to extremes in [http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/ "Caveman Science Fiction".]
** A similar parody of this trope appears in the lengthy comment under [http://dresdencodak.com/2007/09/04/an-exotic-matter/ this comic.]
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