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[http://www.sheldoncomics.com Sheldon] is a Webcomic following the day-to-day life of Sheldon, a billionaire [[Child Prodigy]] and [[Young Entrepreneur]] who started his own immensely successful software company. He's [[Raised
Dave Kellett, the author, has started a scifi webcomic called ''[[Drive (
Not to be confused with the 2017 [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'', ''[[Young Sheldon]]''.
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* [[The Ace]]: Flaco is an Olympic pentathlete, an admiral in the Bulgarian navy<ref>in the future</ref>, a former cosmonaut... [[Rule of Funny|played for laughs, of course.]]
** [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080829.html Let's just say he has a lot of trophies.]
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* [[Calvin Ball]]: [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/030624.html Starting from musical chairs.]
** [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/040609.html Starting from croquet.]
* [[Character Name and
** ''[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/050821.html Harry Potter and the low interest cdr loan]''
** ''[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/050823.html Harry Potter and the acne skin cream]''
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* [[Child Prodigy]]: Sheldon owns a multi billion dollar corporation. Of course this one's here.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Arthur ''owns'' this trope.
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* [[Compulsory School Age]]: In several older strips, Sheldon and Gramp have conversations about whether or not Sheldon needs to go to school, with Gramp wanting him to and Sheldon against it. This seems to have been abandoned recently.
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Oso, the family's pet pug.
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* [[The Ditz]]: Oso, who embodies all the sheer ''dumbness'' of a pug dog. (Example: [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070612.html Failing at fetch.])
* [[Everybody Hates Mathematics]]: Averted by Sheldon. He is quite fond of math, and on one occasion is even late to school one day because he wants to finish a formula.
* [[
* [[Forced Meme]]: [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/040112.html Frr]!
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Exploited in a time travel arc to get Arthur back home.
* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Frequently for French people. Example: [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/050204.html Suzette].
* [[Furry Confusion]]: [[Lampshaded]] and parodied [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/061116.html here] in a strip involving [[Civilized Animal|Arthur]], [[The Unintelligible|Flaco]], and [[Nearly
** Several strips milk for humor Arthur's willingness to eat chicken & turkey or awkwardness over other people eating duck.
** See also [[Owl Be Damned]] below, which happens when Arthur & Flaco treat a normal owl like a cartoon animal.
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* [[Millennium Bug]]: Gramp once bought 72 packs of disposable razors due to Y2K panic.<ref>([http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/050816.html He finished using them up in 2005]).</ref>
* [[Must Have Caffeine]]: Gramp is a complete and utter coffee addict.
* [[Nearly
** The former was mostly a gag about how dogs react to emotion & body language and not words, though.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: In the time travel arc it turns out that somehow Flaco becomes a Admiral in the Bulgarian Navy. It does get it explained but since Flaco only talks in squeaks we never hear the story.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: A few of the gag arcs cross this line, including the multiple-week diversions on moments that ruin [[
** [[Lampshaded]] at the end of a week of strips [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070407.html making fun of coffee cup lids].
* [[Owl Be Damned]]: A two-week story arc of Flaco getting taken by a predatory owl [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/100825.html starts with a subverted reference] to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0epRjfGLw a classic Tootsie Pop commercial.]
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/120120.html Arthur uses a speech bubble as an umbrella.]
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: The Christmas 2005 story arc strongly hints that Sheldon's parents are dead.
** [[Raised
* [[Running Gag]]: Arthur hates eggnog. This comes up just about every year.
** So does a crack at Peeps most Easters, and he takes a shot at plot holes in ''[[
** There's also the recurring series, "Punctuation Marks that Never Caught On."
** How amazingly dumb and unnatural pugs are.
** The various pets sitting on Gramp's head.
* [[Self
* [[Starving Artist]]: Played with in that Dante is only ten but the fact he is a artist is a source of jokes.
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* [[Static Character]]: As one webcomic critic pointed out, this is not a bad thing, as they're well-rounded, interesting, and funny, which is pretty much all a simple gag-a-day strip of this sort needs.
* [[Take That]]: Against targets such as [[What Do You Mean
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Flaco speaks in a constant stream of squeaking noises. His adopted poppa, Arthur, still understands him just fine, but no one else can. [[Rule of Funny|Except when it's funny]].
** Flaco used to be [[The Speechless]] in his first appearances before developing into this.
* [[Timmy in
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Arthur will do just about anything for fishy goodness... or [http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/021114.html pancakes.]
* [[X Meets Y]]: The author could be said to be an American [[Terry Pratchett]] who decided to make a newspapercomic like Webcomic.
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