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{{quote|''"I ''love'' entertaining others with this stuff. And I'm always trying to make it better based on their feedback and what they tell me. People need to sit down to whatever you draw for a living, and know--just ''know''--that they're going to have a good time. I don't care if I particularly liked a certain story. What really matters to me is if YOU liked it."''|'''Peter Paltridge''', in response to the FAQ "What's the ultimate advice an amateur cartoonist can get?"}}

As if that weren't enough, the site is also home to slapdash humor and nostalgia, including ''[[TV Guide]]'' ad archives, trivia on the [[Warner Bros]]. Silver Age cartoons, and [[Strip Archive|Strip Archives]]s for ''[[Bloom County]]'' and ''[[U.S. Acres]]''. Basically, it's just about [[Author Appeal|anything and everything]] Mr. Paltridge likes, recapped in a slightly cynical, constantly entertaining fashion.

Peter Paltridge called 2008's [http://www.platypuscomix.net/miscellaneous/index.php?issue=11&page=1 "True Believers"] his second favorite Platypus Comix story. The characters from the flagship comics have gone on strike, so the Head Executive tries to tide readers over with a [[Spider-Man]] comic, hoping he could get away with featuring characters he doesn't own when the characters he does own won't cooperate. The resulting story became Platypus Comix's [[Take That]] against [[Marvel Comics]]' reviled ''[[One More Day]]'' comic, which had concluded two weeks earlier. In a 48-page, two-month-long, ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|Roger Rabbit]]''-ish storyline, Spidey and Mary Jane Watson fight to save their marriage from being wiped out by their own editor, Joe Quesadilla -- aQuesadilla—a vicious [[Joe Quesada|Quesada]] [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|caricature]].

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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: After turning down the offer to become Jackpot, Mary Jane carries a stamp out of Quesadilla's office. {{spoiler|During the climax of the comic, she presses the stamp against Quesadilla's forehead and [[Retcon|Retcons]]s his existence.}}

* [[Clip Show]]: The Head Executive of Platypus Comix showed [http://www.platypuscomix.net/miscellaneous/index.php?issue=8&pageType=index&seriesID=7 one] during the first week of the "2008 Character Strike". This evolves into a [[BLAMNon Sequitur Scene Episode]] as the "clips" gradually give way to pictures from random sources outside the website.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: After Paltridge learned of the existence of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130514202747/http://www.kevhines.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi a website] called "Platypus Comi'''cs'''," he wrote about his characters' reactions to the [[Similarly Named Works|similarly named work]] and its debatably enjoyable content in "Riot Act # 2."

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** Mulberry offering [http://platypuscomix.net/top132.jpg a code] for 100 free Disney Movie Rewards points and explaining, "I, myself, will never buy enough teenybopper garbage and ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' pantyhose to earn the one worthwhile item offered in this program, the ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' movie DVD."

** During the week of April 15-2115–21, 2012, the banner featured a working countdown to midnight April 23 ET, at which time Peter Paltridge would make "the most important announcement in Platypus Comix history." Paltridge [http://platypuscomix.net/top195.gif extended the countdown], then [http://platypuscomix.net/top194.jpg shortened it], [http://www.platypuscomix.net/top196.jpg then] [http://www.platypuscomix.net/projects/bang.html revealed] that he plans to collect stories and comics for an independent publication: ''[http://www.bangpdx.com/ BANG! The Entertainment Paper]''.

* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: "[http://platypuscomix.net/top50.gif The 'X' [[in 'Comix']] stands for XTREME!]"

* [[BigNon LippedSequitur Alligator MomentScene]]: Invoked in the [http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/misfit23.html review] of the ''[[Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer]]'' special and the [http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/dingus.html review] of ''[[The Hudsucker Proxy]]''.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: A 2011 update to the [http://www.platypuscomix.net/hollywood/misfitsindex.html menu] for The Island of Misfit Christmas Specials added references to ''[[Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer]]'', ''Up on the Housetop'',<ref>The first "Misfit" Paltridge reviewed</ref>, ''[[Robbie the Reindeer]]'', ''The Great Bear Scare'',<ref>Paltridge's least favorite special on the list</ref>, and ''A Wish For Wings That Work''.<ref>which starred the cast of ''[[Bloom County]]''</ref>.

* [[Time Marches On]]: "[http://www.platypuscomix.net/kidzone/comingtodvdnever.html Why you may never see some of your favorite childhood shows on DVD]" originally included ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' among the shows whose fans needed to [[Keep Circulating the Tapes]]. After Time Life went and released ''all'' the episodes on DVD, Nicktoons and ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'' took its spot on the list. Later, Shout! Factory managed to release DVDs of ''those'', so they got removed from Paltridge's article without any replacements.

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