diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9958d3f..290ab54 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Ubuntu und Debian liefern Luarocks nur für Lua 5.1 aus. Um Luarocks für Lua 5.
 
 ### Setup
 Du benötigst **Lua 5.2+**, eine aktive **Redis-Instanz** und die folgenden **LuaRocks-Module**:
+* luautf8
 * luasocket
 * luasec
 * multipart-post
@@ -184,4 +185,4 @@ Das ist die Datenbank-Struktur:
 
 `database.userdata` speichert Daten von verschiedenen Plugins, hierzu wird aber für Brawlbot-Plugins Redis verwendet.
 
-`database.version` speichert die Bot-Version
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+`database.version` speichert die Bot-Version.
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diff --git a/otouto/plugins/xkcd.lua b/otouto/plugins/xkcd.lua
index 7f86824..1148062 100644
--- a/otouto/plugins/xkcd.lua
+++ b/otouto/plugins/xkcd.lua
@@ -1,33 +1,54 @@
 local xkcd = {}
 
 xkcd.command = 'xkcd [i]'
+xkcd.base_url = 'https://xkcd.com/info.0.json'
+xkcd.strip_url = 'https://xkcd.com/%s/info.0.json'
 
 function xkcd:init(config)
-  xkcd.triggers = {
+  xkcd.triggers =  {
+	"xkcd.com/(%d+)",
 	"^/xkcd (%d+)",
-	"xkcd.com/(%d+)"
+	"^/xkcd (r)",
+	"^/xkcd"
   }
-  xkcd.doc = [[*
-]]..config.cmd_pat..[[xkcd* _[i]_: Gibt diesen XKCD-Comic aus]]
-end
-
-function xkcd:get_xkcd(id)
-  local res,code  = https.request("https://xkcd.com/"..id.."/info.0.json")
-  if code ~= 200 then return nil end
-  local data = json.decode(res)
-  local link_image = data.img
-  if link_image:sub(0,2) == '//' then
-    link_image = link_image:sub(3,-1)
+	xkcd.doc = [[*
+]]..config.cmd_pat..[[xkcd* _[i]_: Gibt den aktuellen XKCD-Comic aus, oder die Nummer, wenn eine gegeben ist. Wenn "r" übergeben wird, wird ein zufälliger Comic zurückgegeben.]]
+  local jstr = https.request(xkcd.base_url)
+  if jstr then
+	local data = json.decode(jstr)
+	if data then
+	  xkcd.latest = data.num
+	end
   end
-  return link_image, data.title, data.alt
+  xkcd.latest = xkcd.latest or 1700
 end
 
 function xkcd:action(msg, config, matches)
-  local url, title, alt = xkcd:get_xkcd(matches[1])
-  if not url then utilities.send_reply(msg, config.errors.connection) return end
-  utilities.send_typing(msg.chat.id, 'upload_photo')
-  local file = download_to_file(url)
-  utilities.send_photo(msg.chat.id, file, title..'\n'..alt, msg.message_id)
+  if matches[1] == 'r' then
+    input = math.random(xkcd.latest)
+  elseif tonumber(matches[1]) then
+    input = tonumber(matches[1])
+  else
+    input = xkcd.latest
+  end
+
+  local url = xkcd.strip_url:format(input)
+  local jstr, code = https.request(url)
+  if code == 404 then
+	utilities.send_reply(msg, config.errors.results)
+  elseif code ~= 200 then
+	utilities.send_reply(msg, config.errors.connection)
+  else
+	local data = json.decode(jstr)
+	local output = string.format(
+	  '<b>%s</b> (<a href="%s">%s</a>)\n<i>%s</i>',
+	  utilities.html_escape(utilities.fix_utf8(data.safe_title)),
+	  utilities.html_escape(data.img),
+	  data.num,
+	  utilities.html_escape(utilities.fix_utf8(data.alt))
+	)
+	utilities.send_message(msg.chat.id, output, false, nil, 'html')
+  end
 end
 
-return xkcd
+return xkcd
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diff --git a/otouto/utilities.lua b/otouto/utilities.lua
index a496d62..5028453 100644
--- a/otouto/utilities.lua
+++ b/otouto/utilities.lua
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 local utilities = {}
 
+utf8 = require 'lua-utf8'
 ltn12 = require('ltn12')
 http = require('socket.http')
 https = require('ssl.https')
@@ -1097,4 +1098,10 @@ function is_channel_disabled(msg)
   return disabled
 end
 
+ -- Converts a gross string back into proper UTF-8.
+ -- Useful for fixing improper encoding caused by bad JSON escaping.
+function utilities.fix_utf8(str)
+	return string.char(utf8.codepoint(str, 1, -1))
+end
+
 return utilities
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