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* Pick anything by [[David Gonterman]]. Half of his stuff, he just posts one full "chapter" and loses interest. The other half just gets randomly dropped. This is probably for the best.
** Most of his stories just meld into each other then the original is forgotten about. You could say they're all part of one horrible Gonterverse.
* 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 [http://www.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", ''[http://www.genrezvouspoint.com Genrezvous Point]''. Carroll's ''[http://www.instantclassic.net/story.php?comicID=101 Pirates]'' comic, however, is one of his more extreme examples. Unlike the first two, which both ''had'' been properly finished before the author decided to pick them up again, ''Pirates'' never makes it through its first story arc. After its initial abandonment, Carroll rebooted the strip into a completely different (and somewhat controversial) format, which lasted all of three strips before it was abandoned again.
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* ''[[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 [
* ''[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.
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* ''Random Ax Of Kindness'' The last update was on November 5, 2003.
* ''Redemption'' was discontinued after three (or four) restarts over the course of its life, none of which ever made it past its prologue. The site where it was hosted died earlier this year.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20050601084430/http://rts.lunistice.com/ Return to Sender]'': After no updates for approximately two years, the author finally posted a notice that not only was she not working on the series anymore, she'd ''forgotten her login credentials'' to post the announcement until then.
* ''[[RPG World]]'': A particularly nasty example as the strip was up to the final confrontation and near completion when the author, Ian Jones Quartey, finally broke into animation full time. He's since worked on [[The Venture Bros|some obscure shows]] [[Adventure Time|nobody has ever heard of.]]
** Similarly, a spin-off project, ''Starsomething'', a joint project with the author of ''Adventurers!'', fell into a hole around the same time for the same reason.
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