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* Pity on the one who decides to just now get into ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Usually a comic a day for over ten years. It will be a long time before you see the sun. A "weekly" mode has been (re)added to the archives. If you can hold yourself to an hour a day on weekdays (in other words, one's lunch break) and you're a speedy reader, it'll take you about six weeks.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is a rather interesting example. Initially, the comic was split into two sections: the 101 beginner's section, which started from the beginning, and the "Advanced" class, for those who had been following the comic since it was originally released in print. Both sections were updated three times a week. In July 2007, the 101 section finally caught up to the beginning of the "Advanced" section, which resulted in a mass simultaneous Archive Trawl/Binge by those who had been reading the 101 comics. This both exceeded the site's monthly bandwidth and caused the server to crash.
* [[Lampshaded]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110810004239/http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=169#60 in] ''[[Fanboys (webcomic)|Fanboys]]''.
* ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'' forces you to do this, so cancerously numerous are the characters... and unlike some amateurs, the author will keep track of every single one of them correctly and will give us time to be emotionally attached before she gets around to killing them off so the archive binge is as necessary as it is recommended purely to get full emotional stress when the killing begins!
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' shows how to do it [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/669.html wrong]. At this point, newcomers to ''Irregular Webcomic!'' can expect to go through multiple Archive Binges. They'll find a theme they like, start reading the archive and then realize that in order to understand it you have to read this other them too and then to understand ''that'' one you have to read this one and...
* [http://xkcd.com/214/ This] ''[[Xkcd]]'' strip sums it up pretty well.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has been running like clockwork 7 days a week, 365 days a year for over TEN YEARS, with an extra two strips on Sundays. That comes out to 4500+ plus strips (or a mere 3500+ you don't count Sundays extra). The only time updates were halted was when the servers hosting the site were flood-damaged. The comics for those particular days were hosted on an emergency server, and were posted only a few hours late. Mr. Tayler has a record to uphold, after all. ''Schlock Mercenary'' makes it unnecessarily easy for even experienced Schlockers to do this, as the sidebar contains a "random strip" button that throws you back into the archives.
** [[The Merch]] includes a [https://web.archive.org/web/20160427064959/http://store.schlockmercenary.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=OE%2DSMM warning sign]. "{{smallcaps|Deep archives: productivity will suffer}}".
* ''[[User Friendly]]'' has been running for over TWELVE years (anniversary was November 17, 2009) and been doing 7 comics a week (Sundays usually larger than the Mon-Sat & in colour), 365 days a year. Those who REALLY want an archive binge can [http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=19971117&mode=classic start here.] Though many of the strips in the past year or more have been repeats.
* ''[[Count Your Sheep]]'' has a strip almost every day, starting in early June 2003 and continuing today. Not only that, Adis, the author, has at least two other strips that he also updates in addition to CYS. What a dynamo... Though recently it hasn't updated that much so you could probably read the last few years in one sitting.
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