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What happens when you mix Victorian-era illustrations with modern day insanity?
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Also worth checking out are ''[http://wondermark.com/comic-strip-doctor/ The Comic Strip Doctor]'', a critical dissection of newspaper comics, and ''[http://wondermark.com/dispatches/ Dispatches From Wondermark Manor]'', a series of parody Victorian novels, both by the same author.
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* [[Alt Text]]: Of the bonus joke kind.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: [[Back to The Future|The DeLorean as a]] [http://wondermark.com/463/coal train]{{Dead link}}.
* [[Art Style Dissonance]]: The art is taken straight from sophisticated Victorian art. The jokes are absurd and often nonsensical.
* [[Author Tract]]: Frequently subverted. Characters will start off making a typical 'angry webcomic author' rant at someone, only to go somewhere very, very strange. [http://wondermark.com/606 Example.]
* [[Beat Panel]]
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: The [http://wondermark.com/808/ Starhorse arc] invokes this in the most frustrating way possible--the fisherman ends up only catching one of five horse-heads, and every time he tries to make a wish the single head warns him that whatever he wishes for will be reduced to one-fifth in the most inconvenient way possible.
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'''Fisherman:''' ''Ah!'' So if I were to ask for ''five million dollars'', might I still get ''one?''
'''Linehorse:''' Kind of like that. You would get five million ''fifth-dollars''. Like, ''bills,'' but only ''one-fifth'' of each bill. Or sacks and sacks of ''wedge-shaped coins.'' No vending machine will take them. }}
* [[Critical Research Failure]]: [http://wondermark.com/558/ This one]:
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'''Customer:''' ''"Capital! Thank you! Just one question before I set off. How high can this beast fly? Are we talking mountain-vaulting altitudes or is it more a graze-the-steeples type of affair?"'' }}
* [[Cut and Paste Comic]]: ''Most'' of the time. Though image manipulation is fairly common.
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* [[God Is Evil]]: Discussed in a series of strips beginning [http://wondermark.com/804/ here].
* [[Ice Cream Koan]]:
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* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: [[In Which a Trope Is Described|In which most of the comics are named as such.]]
* [[In Which a Trope Is Described]]: See above.
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** [http://wondermark.com/495/ PIRANHAMOOSE].
**** ...''awesome.''
* [[Oh Wait, This Is My Grocery List]]: Applied to an unfortunate Cyrano [https://web.archive.org/web/20180329110709/http://wondermark.com/106/
* [[Overly Long Airplane Banner Gag]]: Done in [http://wondermark.com/508/ this] strip, using a bird rather than an airplane.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20180329100235/http://wondermark.com/576/
* [[Present Day Past]]
* [[Retraux]]: The whole visual theme
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* [[Ticket Line Campout]]: Subject of [http://wondermark.com/321/ this strip]
* [[Vampire Vannabe]]: Parodied [http://wondermark.com/241/ here].
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[Wiki Walk]]: Played with in [http://wondermark.com/420/ this strip].
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