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The site [http://www.archivebinge.net/ Archive Binge] lets you subscribe to a webcomic's archive via an RSS feed at a rate you choose, allowing you to binge at your own pace.
It is not unusual for fans who have already been following a series to undertake several more archive binges, often initiated by an [[Archive Trawl]]. It's also good practice for [[Fanfic]] writers to undertake this, especially in a new fandom, or one they're going back to. It's often called "Canon Review" in these circumstances.
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** [[No Export for You|Only for Americans.]]
** But one could always check Crunchy Roll, they have quite a few series an average person would've never heard of otherwise.
* Scanlated manga hosts have a very good chance of turning into an
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* Thanks to online archives of traditional print comics on gocomics.com, the website of the two biggest newspaper comic syndicates in the United States, you can put traditional pre-Web favorites like ''[[Peanuts]]'' and ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' on there too. Bonus points awarded, since many of these comics and their archives stretch back ''decades''.
* ''[[Blondie]]'' has been running since 1930.
* ''Adam@Home'' features this when Adam stumbles upon [[Lost
* Thanks to its recent public domain status, you can now read all of ''[[Little Nemo]] in Slumberland'' [http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/ online].
* Reading ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'' feels much the same as an extensive archive binge, and as it was produced between the late 80s and late 00s it is no small binge to engage in.
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== Music ==
* Japanese noise artist Merzbow released a 50-disc boxed set. And then Atlanta-area college radio station WREK [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|broadcast the entire thing over three days]]. Also notable is [http://ifuckinglovemerzbow.blogspot.com.au/ this blog] where somebody listened to and gave a track by track summary of the whole box. Spoiler: 90% is SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
* [[Vocaloid]]. Part of its appeal is being able to go to [[Nico Nico Douga]] or [[YouTube]] and finding song after song after song. In the beginning there weren't that many, but now there are literally thousands of
* Jazz musician Sun Ra has over a hundred full length albums, which add up to over 1000 songs.
* Spotify has almost all of recorded music in history, for free.
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* ''[[Freedom Force]]'' likewise has a huge number of skins and models for pretty much every conceivable superhero and supervillain, as well as many other characters.
* ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri|Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri]]'' actually uses an Archive Binge in the plot. {{spoiler|One of the factions will dump the sum total of human knowledge into the brain of the Planet, in order to break a cycle that would cause human extinction.}}
* Any video game with an in-game encyclopedia can turn into an
* The proliferation of ROMs available for older consoles, (SNES, Genesis, NES, N64, PSX, etc.) can allow a gamer to lose themselves in thousands of free games on a computer and now, most smartphones.
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* [[Lampshaded]] [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
* [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.
* ''[[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
* ''[[Misfile]]'' is only a thousand pages or so at this point, but more than a few people who have lost sleep due to this trope. As of September 2011, approaching two thousand pages... and yes, I lost sleep...
* Good luck trying to
* ''Webcomic/Newshounds'' started in 1997 and is running in the form of the creatively named Newshounds II. Needless to say, it takes a while to wade through it.
* ''Funny Farm'' has lasted for 9.5 years. And it updated every, single day. There were only a few months in which he didn't update every day. Instead he updated 4 days a week for a month or two, then 5 days a week for a month or two, and then back to every day. However, the entire archive has been removed so he can post the 9.5 years worth of 7 days a week over 5 days with commentary. So the weekend strips tend to rest on weekdays now. It's no longer an archive binge, more an archive wait.
* ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' had ran for a little while, and the archive binge doesn't take as much as some strips like ''Newshounds'' and ''Funny Farm'' (Which it has crossed over with). Unfortunately, the strips are listed in the archive ''out of order'' so it's rather odd to see the "introductory" strips right after you finished several notable-sized story arcs. To make matters worse, some of the strips are even ''repeated''. (The crossover with ''Newshounds'' shows up twice if one reads the archive from the beginning)
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' is another 7 days a week 365 days a year strip, that has been running for just over eight years (with some gaps). However, Tatsuya Ishida seems to be fond of occasionally going back to earlier one-shot comics and giving them sequels (the "[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2118 Politically Incorrect Fringe Rangers]" are probably the best example; now up to their sixth iteration, often over a year apart). This inevitably leads to the reader going "wait, what, when was the first one?", and heading backwards a couple of years to refresh whose memory. Then remembering how much who loved the arc after that, and continuing from there. ''Recursive'' archive binging. Not pretty.
* Many new fans of ''[[YU+ME: dream|Yu Me Dream]]'' have
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'' has been going up six days a week since 2003; even the author's hiati use [[Guest Strip]] filler. New readers have been known to lose a weekend there. Worse yet is that it uses ''[[Hellsing (anime)|Hellsing]]'' TV series and ''[[Read or Die]]'' continuity.
* ''[[Zelda Comic]]'' has 306 strips that are all fairly funny and can take a few hours to get through. Then you discover that it has an updating schedule that makes erosion look like the Road Runner. In fact by now it appears to have stopped entirely.
* ''[[Tally Road]]'' ran 7 days a week for much of its first year, and dropped back to weekdays without a break at nearly 400 strips all of which are part of a continuing story loaded with [[Chekhov's Gun]], it is a prime candidate for this trope, partly because it continues at the 5-a-week pace, and partly because the site offers numerous widgets for skipping back to a previous weekday or story arc.
* ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' has an interesting page... it starts on the page after the last one you read every time you go to it. This makes it much easier to get through the 500+ strips in an [[Archive Trawl]] instead of one big
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' hands down. Then there's the "Classic Smbc"... ''SMBC'' is the worst. With its addicting humor and a DAILY UPDATE you're in for a binge that could last a week.
* ''[[The Cyantian Chronicles]]'':
* ''[[Sam and Fuzzy]]'' took this experienced webcomic binger several days to read through. To put this into perspective, she also read the 1200+ archives of Misfile in about three hours.
* There's over 1300 ''[[The Book of Biff]]'' comics, and they get updated every weekday.
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* Screencap comics ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' (144 strips) and ''[[Concerned]]'' (203 strips) (based on ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' trilogy and ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' respectively) are mercifully (relatively) short and now complete, making an archive binge relatively painless, meaning the elimination of merely hours of productive time rather than days or weeks. However, ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', inspired by ''DMotR'', looks set to run for many, many years to come, taking over 320 strips just to get a bit over halfway through Episode II. On that basis it'll take well over 1,200 strips to do all six movies. As of this writing, it's through with the first two movies and getting close to the end of the third, at around 580 strips.. The first two both took just over two hundred strips, the third looks like it'll be a good bit longer. 1,200 strips is probably a good estimate for the lowest end of the scale.
* [[BZ Power]].com 's The Editorialist made a series called ''Psycho Dogs and Carbonated Beverages''. It has over 300 strips. They even lampshaded this trope in one comic.
* ''[[American Elf]]'', an autobiographical webcomic by and about James Kochalka, began in October
* In ''[[Grey Is...|Grey Is]]'' the comic itself won't take so long to read, but the authors [http://blog.greyismanga.com/ sketch blog] is filled with side stories, sketches and extra info on the comic and characters. It'll eat up hours of your time before you even notice
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' has 800+ comics in its archive as of this
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has snared a few newcomers into this with the loveable characters and indie references. Not that I read from #1 to #1100 over two nights or anything...
* ''[[Achewood]]'' has been running since October
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'', a daily D&D comic well on its way to binge territory.
* ''[[Cat and Girl]]'' has amassed 1000+ strips over 12 years, and is this in a big way due to its [[Continuity Porn]] fetish, to the point where incredibly obscure comic references ''show up on official merchandise.''
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* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. Why does Dr. McNinja have a mustachioed Mexican boy sidekick? What's with the raptor? Why does his dad have a mustache outside his mask?! You must learn these things.
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'': Though it's entirely episodic, you really can't not read the old strips. And since Tycho and Gabe have been doing the same strip for longer than most webcomic creators have been in the business, you're in for a lot of reading. It doesn't help that they seem to have a comic on just about any topic even vaguely related to video games, which are frequently linked to on this very website. Yes, there's PA in your [[TV Tropes]] so you can binge while you [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|binge]].
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' is a severe example of this trope. To even ''begin to understand'' what's going on in Chel, not only do you have to go on an
* ''Superosity'' has been running for 11 years daily, with a large amount of continuity.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has been going since 2002 at 5 comics a week; starting from the beginning would be quite a task. If you follow the comic, you'll know that it started as a 7-a-week comic in 2002, dropped to 5 midway through the first year, [[Schedule Slip|became erratic]], and returned to more or less consistency at 5 in Spring 2010. As of mid-April 2011 it has started a 6-a-week schedule. Only time will tell if it will stick but all the same, there is a huge archive for newbies to trawl through though it is common even for veterans to engage in [[Archive Trawl
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'' has been around since 2000.
* ''[[Something Positive]]'' has been doing daily (more or less) strips since 2002. He's at well over 2000.
* ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'', over 2000 (probaby more) comics of the same images over and over again, yet completely gripping. In fact Ryan North, the creator, saw this happening and even added the occasional joke in the meta text just to mess with your mind... with words, because that's what it's all about. That and dinosaurs.
* ''[[Dork Tower]]'' has been going since January 1997 as a four-panel comic, a webcomic, a bimonthly comic book, and one-page strips for ''Dragon, Shadis, Spyre, Comic Buyers Guide, Comic Shop News,'' and other publications. The [http://www.dorktower.com/ incomplete web archive] starts from January
* Deliberately averted with the ''[[Ciem Webcomic Series]]'', which followed a different syndication logic consisting of chapters rather than strips; in which all were released more or less around the same time. Not uncommon for a story [[Machinomics|made with]] ''[[The Sims]]''.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' has well over 600 strips by now, and is still going. Updates twice a week.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has 863 comics as of April
* ''[[Natalie Dee]]'' began in 2002, weekly since 2003, daily since 2005, with easily 2000+ comics.
* ''[[Real Life Comics]]'': Running since 1999, making it one of the oldest webcomics still active. Lampshaded in the 12th anniversary comic, where protagonist Greg is telling this to his newborn daughter:
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== Web Original ==
* Don't you dare go to [[College Humor]] and start watching all 350+ episodes of ''[[Jake and Amir]]'', because before you know it you'll be [[Hardly Working]][[Incredibly Lame Pun|!!!]] It doesn't help that ALL of [[College Humor]]'s shorts are about 2-3 min. long and are hilarious, you can't help but watch one, see that it is only 8:00 so you say "one more won't hurt, what's 3 mins gonna do ... IT'S 4:00AM!!!"
* This is ridiculously easy with [[Let's Play
** The 10-minute (later changed to 15 minutes) video time limit of [[YouTube]], the most commonly used host for Let's Plays, doesn't particularly help either. This is how two hours of gameplay gets spread across 12 videos, and how veteran LP uploaders can rack of ridiculous statistics like having on average a new video uploaded every 10 minutes.
** Videos can be as long as they want now, although Let's Play videos rarely go above 20 minutes, though.
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* [[TV Tropes]], of course.
** Case in point: [http://forums.sjgames.com/showpost.php?p=676491&postcount=30 A poster on the Steve Jackson Games forum discovers TV Tropes for the first time.]
** It's even worse
** Listening through all the links on the ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Touhou/Awesome Music|Crowning Music of Awesome]] page. By the time you've listened to them all, be prepared to use a few more hours to listen to the ones added while you were going through them for the first time.
** Casually ''glancing'' at the index at the bottom of the page, particularly if you see a trope you're unfamiliar with or haven't seen in a long time, only worsens the problem -- ''especially'' with the various groupings/lists of related tropes.
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