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A British Sci-Fi comedy webcomic inspired by shows like ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
Jump Leads is created by Ben Paddon and illustrated by "JjAR". Rather than having a single writer, Jump Leads has a TV Series-esque writing team, with different writers writing the scripts for different issues. Paddon is the lead writer, with the rest of the team being Euan Mumford, Paul Varley and Andrew Taylor (plus guest writers).
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Nine issues have been completed so far, with the tenth issue currently underway. The issues so far are:
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130919061311/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/1 Training Day]'', written by Ben Paddon
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121022110611/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/31 It Came From Space!]'', written by Ben Paddon
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20150627112907/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/80 Trojan Horse]'', written by Euan Mumford
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20121022110853/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/124 Just Dropping In]'' (4-page mini-issue), written by Ben Paddon
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140810034051/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/129 Who Wants to Rule the World?]'', written by Paul Varley
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140810034057/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/161 The Travellers]'' (4-page mini-issue), written by Benjamin "Pooka" Maydon
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140708211023/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/165 Rogues and Scallywags]'', written by Ben Paddon
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140330140257/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/194 Waterworld]'', written by Kris Carter (who also provides the art for this story)
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130919065801/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/201 The Cult of Meaney]'', written by Andrew Taylor
# ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130919045325/http://www.jump-leads.com/comic/221 The Voyage Home]'', written by Ben Paddon, Euan Mumford, Paul Varley and Andrew Taylor
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=== Training Day ===
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Llewellyn
* [[Military Maverick]]: Captain Lucas, and Llewellyn.
* [[Sacrificial Lamb]]: {{spoiler|Captain Lucas}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Red Dwarf
* [[Take That]]: "About as exciting as watching ''[[Footballers Wives]]''"; "I believe some of you will be travelling to dimensions where Christina Aguilera has somehow achieved a successful music career".
* [[Ted Baxter]]: Captain Whedon. Heck, he practically says as much:
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* [[The Obi-Wan]]: {{spoiler|Captain Lucas}}
* [[Wide
=== It Came From Space! ===
* [[And You Thought It Was a Game]]: {{spoiler|Inverted: Meaney and Llewellyn think the alien attack is real, but the whole thing is actually a historical recreation.}}
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|Turns out there's no danger at all.}}
* [[The Napoleon]]: Newman
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Firefly|Alan Tudyk]] and <s>[[The X
=== Trojan Horse ===
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|The [[Body Surfing]] aliens have a [[Weaksauce Weakness]] which saves the life of the host.}}
* [[High-Class Glass]]: the monocle that Meaney finds. Subversion in that monocles are only worn by the lower classes in this universe.
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* [[Mundane Solution]]: {{spoiler|Silk}}
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: The Iob
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Star Trek:
=== Just Dropping In ===
=== Who Wants to Rule the World? ===
* [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]: General Gray has this in ''spades''.
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|They were never in any danger, redux.}}
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* [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]: Subverted - the guards use tranquiliser darts, which ''improves'' their aim because they don't have to worry about taking human lives.
* [[Just Between You and Me]]: Averted: this is one of the few errors Gray won't commit. No sense in a "before I kill you, let me tell you my plan" if you aren't going to kill them. The heroes can't have it ''all'' their own way.
* [[Locking MacGyver in
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: With taking it over rather than destroying it. Gray {{spoiler|has taken over the world once already, found the experience of running it [[Victory Is Boring|boring]], and abdicated power. But he still loves ''trying'' to take over the world. So he now invents ludicrously flawed plans for his bids for world domination}}.
* [[Not So Harmless]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the issue, with reverse-engineered universe-jumping technology within his grasp, Gray decides to start conquering other, parallel worlds - and this time, he's going to do it ''[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|properly]]''}}.
* [[Shout-Out]]: All to [[James Bond (
* [[Victory Is Boring]]: as Gray discovered after he {{spoiler|took over the world on his first attempt}}
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=== Rogues & Scallywags ===
* [[Deus Ex Machina]]: {{spoiler|You know one's coming.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: Imprisoned "Freelance" dimension-hopping Mercenary Hayter is named for voice actor David Hayter who played Solid Snake in the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' video series (but looks more like an aged Christopher Eccleston).
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=== General ===
* [[The Multiverse]]: The central premise of the comic.
* [[Obstructive Code of Conduct]]: Survive at all costs, as opposed to, say, sacrificing your life to save a universe from disaster: there are an infinite number of universes, and only so many trained operatives.
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