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You've just discovered a new webcomic. Maybe a friend told you, maybe you were pointed to it by another site. Heck, maybe it was [[Web Comics|this wiki]] or [[That Other Wiki|the other one]].

* ''[[Naruto]]'' is pushing into this territory, exacerbated by the infamous [[Filler]] Hell in the anime adaptation. It finally finished its manga run aty 72 volumes... only for a sequel series, ''Boruto'', to start almost immediately.

* ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' is 110 episodes long, not counting gaiden materials or movies, and each episode is 25 minutes long. Watching all of them consecutively will take over 45 hours.

** As well as ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', ''X/1999'', and ''[[Tokyo Babylon]]''.

* ''[[Bleach]]'' finished its run after 74 volumes compilin over 706 chapters. Author [[Kubo Tite]] has proclaimed around 2012 that he wanted the series to last at least 10 more years - turned out he only managed 4 more.

 

== Comic Strips ==

* Even worse than ''[[Garfield]]'', [[Doonesbury]].com had a complete archive dating all the way back to 1968.

* Comics.com has, amongst dozens of comic strips, the entire ''[[Dilbert]]'' archive available to registered members. Dilbert has been running more-or-less continuously, 3 panels a day (8 on Sundays) since late 1989.

* Comics.com also has the complete archive of ''[[Peanuts]]'', which ran from 1950 to 2000. That's nearly 18,000 strips, not counting reruns.

** ''The Complete Peanuts'' plans on printing every strip in 25 volumes.

* The [[Carl Barks]] archive.

 

** That's just how many pages the topic is. Try over fifteen books, nine chapters each.

* ''[[Tales of Flame]]'' Is around 360 change chapters, has [[Loads and Loads of Characters|Loads of Characters]] and is still an incredible story.

* ''[[Forward]]'' is a ''[[Firefly]]'' fic that is nearly seventy chapters long as of this edit. It gets even more daunting when one looks at the sheer wordcount; the story is edging toward half a million words now, and is still ongoing. And almost all of the story is relevant, as every "episode" is interconnected.

* ''[[Fallout Equestria]]'' consists of 45 chapters plus an intro, prologue, epilogue, and afterword, totaling 603,395 words.

** The recursive fanfiction ''[[Fallout Equestria Project Horizons (Fanfic)|Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons]]'' is ongoing, with 42 chapters so far and 780,841 words. [[Word of God]] says that the story is about half done.

 

== Film ==

* Country singer [[Johnny Cash]] has released 55 studio albums in addition to live albums and compilations.

* As of 2012, the Canadian band [[Rush]] has released 18 studio albums, 8 live albums (including 2 double- and 2 triple-CD sets), 7 live DVD's (3 of which were remastered from VHS), and an EP. Perhaps a dozen compilations of singles and videos have been available at different times as well.

* The Funk Brothers. They were the studio band for nearly all of the [[Motown Records]] releases between 1959 and 1972, including nearly every #1 song from that time period from an American artist.

 

== Puppet Shows ==

 

== Radio ==

== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has over 10,000 cards spread over more than 50 sets, some of which cost [[Crack is Cheaper|several hundred dollars]]. It's been going since 1993.

 

== Troping ==

* [[TV Tropes]], which, [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/special/remix12.jpg apparently], some people have tried to read in its entirety.

 

== Web Comics ==

*** It is ''also'' worth noting that, compared to nearly every other webcomic on this page, ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' is very new, only having started in 2007. ''[[Homestuck]]'' specifically is even newer, only having been going since ''April 2009''. Did we mention [[Andrew Hussie]] is a [[One-Man Army]]?

*** To make matters worse, ''Homestuck'' starts very casually, and picks up speed after the first two Acts, which are easy enough to blow through rapidly. Thus, it is extremely easy to start reading in the evening or at night under the mistaken impression that it is easy to stop reading, and then look out the window and notice that the sun is rising. Most of that bulk of writing doesn't kick in until Act 5, whereupon to have any idea what's going on, you'll need to read several hundred pages of material in order to keep the flow of the story.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is nearly as bad as ''Schlock'' on that score, consisting of over 5000 comics, all of which (including the filler) are important to the plot.

** The comic has run daily since August 25, 1997. Including filler and guest strips (many of which are actually part of the plot), that comes out to 5355 strips at the time of this editing.

* ''[[User Friendly]]'' has been daily since November 1997 and is now over 5000 pages long.

* ''[[PvP]]'' started in 1998 and is currently five strips a week rather than seven, but it still has over 4200 strips.

* ''[[Sinfest]]'' has a little bit of continuity, although it isn't necessary to read all 4000 or more previous comics to understand the current strips.

* ''[http://www.superosity.com Superosity]'' has been running daily since March 1999 and has over 3650 pages.

* ''[[CVRPG]]'' has updated most weekdays since early 2005. The main storyline includes over 1700 comics, and with the backstories (one for each of the main characters except Princess), bonus story arcs, filler strips, and the related ''Darkmoon's Silly Webcomic'' (which exists in the same continuity), all of which are referenced in the main storyline, the total archive includes over 3300 strips and counting.

* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' has updated almost daily since 2002 and has over 3000 strips. Writer David Morgan-Mar once boasted that he had overtaken ''[[Freefall]]'' in number of strips and has stated a goal of publishing at least as many comics as ''Calvin & Hobbes'' creator Bill Watterson: 3,160. At least you can read them five at a time.

* ''[[Goblins]]'' is relatively short, with only about 350 strips or so, but they're full-page images that simply cannot be skimmed.

* Averted by the "first comic created specifically for web distribution", ''[http://www.zark.com/front/about.html Argon Zark]''. It has been running since June 1995, still updates almost every year, and has a grand total of 77 strips.

* ''[[Mezzacotta]]''. [http://www.mezzacotta.net/archive.php?date=-9999999999999-01-01 Here's the first strip]. Check out the date on the URL.

* ''[[The KAMics]]'' - "I was told by a friend that he was intimidated by the number of comics in my archive... pshaw! There was just under 800 at the time!"

* ''[[Classic Game Room]]'' has uploaded over '''1400''' videos of variable lenght since the debut of its [[YouTube]] channel in late 2007, and new videos gets added pratically every days. And that's not counting the sister "CGR Undertow" channel.

* ''[[Neopets]]'' has a self-maintained in side newspaper titled ''The Neopian Times''. While the Editorial and Comics are fairly short, there's also been roughly ten short stories, ten sections of longer stories, and ten articles about the site for twenty issues short of '''ten years solid''', and about 500 issues total. The comics section ''alone'' is [[Up to Eleven|longer than most of the long-running webcomics here]]. What's worse? A comic could die mid-arc, before the Neopets Team told people to send in the whole arc at once to prevent that.

** Scratch that. Seven months later and it has almost 6000.

* [[Raocow]] has over 3000 videos in several host websites, and he usually uploads two new videos every single day, each one of an average length of 15 minutes or so. You'll literally spend months just to watch his most emblematic series.