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Some webcomicsweb comics just get off on the wrong foot. Maybe they took a [[Cerebus Syndrome|hard left turn]] in the middle of the archives, maybe they just had horrible art, scripting or were just plain boring. Sometimes, it just pays off to give new readers a new place to start off.
 
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* ''[[Divided Sky|Divided Sky's]]'s'' first few chapters are in the process of being re-written and re-drawn. In fact, the artist had the first few pages up before redesigning the site.
** Now she's completely redoing the story, with [[Art Evolution]] to boot.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has a prominently labeled New Reader's Page that can start new readers off at least a year into the archives (it used to be later!).
* ''[[ItsWalkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' ''was'' redrawing its first storyline, to help people around three years of the comic from which it spun off, but that seems to have slowed.
** Similarly, ''[[Shortpacked]]'' started out as a gag-a-day comic and was very quickly rebooted with a permanent cast and storyline, displacing the old version.
* ''Melonpool'' started all over, once, but the artist eventually decided to devote himself to new projects and put the old archives back online.
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* ''[[Angel Moxie]]'' went though a format change horizontal strip to a more traditional four-panel layout with bigger art and proper word balloons and dialog. The original format using tiny panels and even tinier fonts and speech balloons was used because the author thought he could possibly get his strip to run on cell phones. Upon discovering this venture to be economically unfeasible, he eventually changed the format and slowly redid the original strips to match as he progressed with new strip updates.
* [http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayden and Crusader] placed up a new first page on December 6, 2008 to act as a cover page. On the artist's [http://crusader1089.deviantart.com deviant art account] there are several redrawn pages the artist has stated he eventually intends to replace the current first pages.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190806092805/http://elvenlacryment.com/ Elven Lacryment] was an halfway through with issue 2 when the original artist had to focus on real life. Another artist was brought in, but she didn't get very far. Now the original artist has returned and the comic is starting fresh.
* ''[[Picatrix]]'' has a long history of restarts. Picatrix began as an MS-paint-esque comic and ran for about a year after which the artist decided to restart the comic in a manga style. Several chapters in, the artist took a hiatus to work on her art and came back with the current version of the comic. Purportedly, the comic is currently undergoing additional editing to prepare it for print.
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' also had this, in part to remove the DnD references from the setting. Also, to fix problems with the story. (For one thing, an enemy who is locked away in a cardboard prison is now dead, and some of Ariel's kick-the-dog moments were removed)