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{{cleanup|This list needs to be checked to make sure it is accurate. Then the pages that are still linked from here need to have [[:Category:Defunct Web Comics]] added to them.}}
As can be seen by the lengthy list, [[Orphaned Series]] are a common problem for webcomics. Below is a list of some of the most well-known.
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* RK Milholland (of ''[[Something*Positive]]'' fame) has three, all spinoffs of his main comic. They are, in chronological order: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050619013523/http://www.newgolddreams.com/ New Gold Dreams], [http://www.midnightmacabre.com Midnight Macabre], and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110207154818/http://classicallypositive.com/ Something Positive 1937-38]. All have been revived at least once.
** Milholland's non-[[Something*Positive|S*P]] comic ''Super Stupor'' has also succumbed to this.
* Several of Brian Carroll's comics have suffered from this. His main comic, ''[http://www.instantclassic.net/ Instant Classic]'', has stopped and restarted several times, as has its "sister comic", ''[
** To be fair, Carroll is also a full-time filmmaker, and often notes that most of the reasons his comics end up on hiatus have to do with his involvement on film shoots or projects.
** As of November 2009, ''Instant Classic'' is updating seven days a week to close out the Brothers Donathan story before officially relaunching in January 2010. An honest reboot of ''Pirates'' is also in the works, according to the author's website.
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* ''[[Elle, and all the others]]'' spontaneously ceased updating in May 2009, apparently due to the writer's personal issues and the artist's new job.
* ''[[Elf Life]]''. Disillusionment over failed attempts to make it pay has probably been a factor. Also, Carson Fire did always appear to have problems in keeping the story on course and completing story arcs.
* A rare [[Uncanceled]] example: ''[[Elf Only Inn]]'' went on seemingly permanent hiatus as of August 2004, but reappeared in September 2006 (with the setting moved from chatroom roleplay to an [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]) and had been steadily updating three times per week ever since. Since June 2007, updates have become very erratic and hasn't updated since May 2008.
* ''Ever After'' was put on hiatus in 2008 due to the creator having to deal with real life problems. Unfortunately, he decided to focus on other projects afterwards instead and pretty much admitted that it was unlikely the comic would be continued.
* ''Everlasting Wanderers'', a ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'' based webcomic, initially started off as a series of oneshots and random plots. However, once a [[Myth Arc]] started forming, the updates suddenly ceased and site has since then been taken down due to lack of payment. The author did repost it to his [http://everwander.deviantart.com/art/comic-001-first-day-89178909 deviantart] but it's still updated rarely -- if ever.
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* ''[[The Heroes of Middlecenter]]'' first slowed to a crawl, then displayed "lack of motivation" on the update progress bar, then eventually went offline in 2011. What's worse, the site was configured to disallow bots, which means it was never archived for the Wayback Machine.
* ''Hyrularity'' ended without any kind of resolution and no word on its future.
* The "About" page of ''Instruction Space'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150113075512/http://visucomics.mechafetus.com/about/ states] that the creator (Jonathan Kim, better known as PersonaSama on the net) wanted to make a webcomic to be updated weekly for a year. It lasted four months (from August to November 2010) with a few [[Schedule Slip|slips]], then Persona told that it was on hiatus, but that he was working on some "cool new project" to be finished in February 2011... then nothing.
* ''Jackies Fridge'', which had been plagued with [[Schedule Slip|Schedule Slips]] throughout its run.
* ''The Jar'' wasn't just orphaned, it also had its archive taken down by the author herself because she [[Creator Backlash|"hated it"]].
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20191219045730/http://www.joeandmonkey.com/ Joe and Monkey]'' Updated off and on since 2004, with occasional month-or-so hiatuses, then in August 2008, the artist announced he was moving and would be taking a little time to get the comic up and running. The site recently began updating again in July 2009 with a new story arc.
* ''Killroy And Tina'', a superhero-type webcomic with an overarching storyline, abandoned in favor of ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'', a superhero [[Gag A Day]] (really, gag a week) webcomic parodying every superhero trope.
* ''[http://kotoc.comicgenesis.com/ Knights of the Old Coding]'', one of the few sprite comics out there to mix various series and actually do something fun and original with it. Considering that the last actual sprite strip came on the [http://kotoc.comicgenesis.com/d/20050226.html 3 year anniversary mark] of the first strip, and the last thing the author uploaded was nearly 5 years ago, it's a wonder this thing is even still on the host anymore.
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* ''Misty The Mouse'' stalled a while back. Artist "Dutch" is still doing stuff, just not that.
** New strips started appearing in late 2011, though updates are still sporadic with no set schedule.
* Lover Of Piggies, the author of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140218141836/http://mortifer.smackjeeves.com/ Mortifer]'' was working on two other series in the past, both well written, both abandoned (''Mortifer'', on the other hand, is still going strong at over 1100 pages). The first of these, ''Dei Anghel Ex'', was very good, but it was also very dark -- the author decided that writing ''two'' dark series at once was probably bad for her mental health (Though it seems to have gotten a [[Spiritual Successor]] in the form of her new webcomic, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190828140825/http://fringehappy.smackjeeves.com/ Fringe Happy]''). The other, ''Luni's Island'', was a light-hearted comedy, which was abandoned for reasons undiscovered.
* ''[[Nami Warriors]]'' tried to prevent [[Schedule Slip]] in August 2010 by going from twice a week updates to once a week updates. A few weeks later, the strip was abandoned altogether.
* ''Never Never'' by John "The Gneech" Robey has, over the past few years, spent more time on hiatus than updating. This is entirely down to time constraints - initially, he had to drop it in favour of his first webcomic, ''The Suburban Jungle''. Since that time, a few guest artists have taken it on, before having to bow out themselves.
* ''[[Not in My Backyard!]]'' may be the oldest example. After rampant [[Schedule Slip]] between June 2000 and January 2001, it got back on schedule for most of that year but abruptly ended in August 2001, and creator Dave Taylor apparently vanished into thin air. Amazingly, the strip was [https://web.archive.org/web/20110515033302/http://www.notinmybackyard.com/ still up until 2011].
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131216151241/http://oldskooled.comicgenesis.com/ OldSkooled]'' was very slow at updating for many years but still renowned. It hasn't updated since a single strip went up in late 2006.
** A new strip was posted Feb 2010, along with a "Let's see where this goes" attitude.
* ''Omega Syndrome'', a fantasy strip with rather good art and a decently interesting storyline that ended extremely abruptly in favor of the artist starting some other strip.
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* The last strip of ''Powerup Adventure'', a [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[Power Up Comics]]'', is from July 30, 2008, with the author's comment saying he's excited about what's coming up. Given that the original was a [[Stealth Parody]], this was probably done intentionally as a parody of this trope.
* ''[http://psychoteers.com Psychoteers]'' stopped updating in 2006 after a series of hiatus announcements and semi-updates.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190620084620/http://puppykittengrandadventure.smackjeeves.com/ Puppy Kitten Grand Adventue]'' hasn't updated since Valentine's Day 2009.
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* ''[[Sonichu]]'' was prone to [[Schedule Slip|schedule slips]] even before the trolls got involved; when the pressure increased in 2010, Christian Weston Chandler, the author of the series [[Creator Breakdown|essentially quit the comic]] and blamed them for "draining his [[Captain Ersatz|crea]][[Cliché Storm|tivity]]".
* ''Spells And Whistles'' started out as a humorous fantasy strip, then became more known for several false starts, unexplained hiatuses, announcements of abandonment, and even a few failed reboots in different formats before finally being abandoned again for what is assumed to be the final time. The site is now completely offline with no archives, and the domain redirects to ''Good Ship Chronicles'', yet ''another'' abandoned series by the same artist.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170305005257/http://starbooze.smackjeeves.com/ Starbooze]'' was halted due to the typical struggles of the life of a student.
* ''[http://redshine.comicgenesis.com/ Starcommand]'' has not been updated since December 2009.
* ''[[Stringsof Fate]]'' was a fantastic little webcomic by Jen Wang (artist of ''Koko Be Good'') featuring the [[Eastern Zodiac]] and [[The Four Gods]] (and then some) which was unfortunately abandoned just as things were getting exciting in the sequel. And then the archives went down. If you dig around, you can find zip files of it a couple of chapters into the sequel, though.
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* ''[[Thunderstruck]]'' shut down in 2009, due to Grayson Towler shifting focus to his professional works.
* ''Tio and Carla''. Hosted on the former KeenSpace, did very nicely for a few years there. Then in the middle of a storyline that was shaping up to be pretty interesting, poof. The updates just stopped, and there was no forum, not even a news post to say why it stopped. A year and a half later(this was around about 2005-2006) later, it flat-out vanished from the host entirely.
* ''[
* ''Urban Dragons'' has been on "indefinite hiatus" since December 6th 2006
* After over 10 years of perfect [[Schedule Slip]] aversion, [[User Friendly]] went quiet in June 2009 after the creator lost a family member. The strip returned in August, then stopped updating again in December 2009, and aside from a 3-week run of new, [[Cerebus Syndrome|more serious]] strips in November 2010, has remained quiet ever since.
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* ''[[Vampirates (webcomic)|Vampirates]]'' began a long, unplanned hiatus in 2009 before being officially discontinued Jan. 9th, 2011.
* After 5 years and a run of 237 web comics, ''[http://www.vanvonhunter.com Van Von Hunter]'' succumbed to this in February 2007 (probably due to the author focusing more and more attention on his book series).
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20210516161713/http://verardi.blackstarr513.com/ Verardi Famiglia]'' went on indefinite hiatus despite a promising tale and somewhat consistent updates.
* ''Waiting For Bob'' - and it may have been the plan all along, given the name.
* ''[[Wally and Osborne]]'' hasn't updated since 2008.
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