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''Vacuumland, 1996'': An inexplicable accident of chance creates a sentient vacuum with an attitude. His name is Spelling.

The first five "chapters" were plotted out as part of a larger arc centered on the prophecy of the Errant One and Bono the Cat's ambition to [[Take Over the World]]. The sixth introduced a new old nemesis of Stooge's with a grudge, and the seventh involved [[Time Travel]] before the author got sick of that dragging on and [[Aborted Arc|swerved abruptly]] in a different direction.

The site, www.room931.com, was taken down sometime in 2008, about two years after the last strip was posted -- which itself was only posted after a six-month lapse, as [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in said final strip. Once upon a time, it also shared a forum site with [[Zelda Comic]] at inksandwich.com.

''[[Spelling the Vacuum]]'' is now archived at [https://web.archive.org/web/20140108111051/http://spellingthevacuum.com/ www.spellingthevacuum.com] as of May, 2009.

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Right in the middle of the action.
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: Villain Ray's weakness is the fact that his powers are powered by self-esteem.
* [[Action Girl]]: The Jew.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Lampshaded in a fight during the [[Time Travel]] arc... unrelatedly to the [[Time Travel]], though. "Did the author just change the art style ''again?''"
* [[Author Appeal]]: Lampshaded by Stooge during his short [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: "I dunno, probably just an excuse so the author can draw me naked."
* [[Back from the Dead]]: As well as [[To Hell and Back]].
* [[Came Back Wrong]]: Bono's sexuality switched orientations.
* [[Camp Gay]]: Bono, to his own horror, after his return from the dead.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Spelling is The Errant One.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Played with, somehow, when the characters visit Guam, and immediately determine that the author knows nothing about the real Guam.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Jew doesn't seem to have another name; neither does The Convert (who, incidentally, converted to Judaism.)
* [[Evil Overlord]]: Bono.
* [[Freud Was Right]]: The "resemblance," according to readers, of the antenna-thingy on the author-mouthpiece's head to a penis was used for a joke once.
** His name is ''Nub''. It was a foregone conclusion.
* [[Grammar Nazi]]: The Fairy of Good Grammar.
* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: Conversationally described by Stooge in an early strip.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: Spelling's birth, from the union of the super-intelligence of a Mr. Spell machine, and the body of a vacuum.
* [[Literal Genie]]: The frog statue, in "Look, It's Vaguely Like Ghostbusters." Genie-free, non-wish-granting magical loophole example: Fairy wands can only be wielded by fairies, but the definition of 'fairy' includes the homophobic slur.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]
* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]
* [[Religion Is Magic]]: Specifically, Judaism = superpowers.
* [[Terminator Twosome]]: The [[Aborted Arc]].
* [[Theme Naming]]: Three named vacuums are Spelling, Dictionary, and Homework. As in, things that {{spoiler|''suck''}}. The author admits he came up with this [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] in Junior High.
* [[This Is All The Tropes Bitch]]: On being ''born'', Spelling's first words were "'Sup, bitches?"
* [[To Hell and Back]]
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: Vacuum sex is always just offscreen; [[Word of God]] says it's not explicit, just "very hard to draw."

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