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* ''[[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!).
* ''[[Its 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, ''[[
* ''Melonpool'' started all over, once, but the artist eventually decided to devote himself to new projects and put the old archives back online.
* ''[[
* ''[[Dresden Codak]]'' has a dozen or so shorter, less coloured comics in its gallery. They ''used'' to be hidden at the back of its archive, viewable by replacing "013" in the first comic's URL with a smaller number.
* ''[[PvP (
** Actually, its done this at least twice, generally for an [[Art Shift]]
* ''The Midlands'' (now called ''Heliothaumic'') had its author make up a completely new prologue for it and relegate the old prologue into more or less oblivion (It was still available on The Midlands' keenspot site but links to that are hard to find). Also, the author cut out a good chunk of Chapter One.
* Rich Burlew regretted starting ''[[The Order of the Stick
* Used as a plot point in ''[[The Japanese Beetle]]'' after the shift in publishers. The first few strips of the 2003 series are essentially better-drawn updates to the series' 1998 beginnings. Later on, it's discovered that it was [[All Just a Dream]].
* ''[[
* [[Altermeta]] started over with what appears to be an alternate universe altogether. The old comics are still available in a separate archive.
* The earliest [[Nothing Nice to Say]] comics have been redrawn but this is due to the originals being in a file format that prevents them from being usable for the upcoming book. The original first strips are still online so anyone can see the [[Art Evolution]] if they want.
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* [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.
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* [http://millennium.senshuu.com Millennium] had a complete reboot in 2008, its older version archived (and still available to read). The author essentially describes the reason as a need to tell the story a different way before it snowballed into something else entirely.
* After ''[[Exiern]]'' got a proper artist, they went back and redid the introduction, eventually catching up to the point where the new artist signed on. In the process, they also threw out a lot of nonsensical filler, including a lengthy and confusing "just a dream" sequence.
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* ''[[I Talk To The Wind]]'' has nothing on its site that links to the first few dozen comics. They're still available, but almost impossible to find.
* [[Goblins Life Through Their Eyes|Goblins]] has a variant, Thunt doesn't start you at a later date, but put up a comparison of his current art with his original art so you 'wouldn't think you accidently clicked on the wrong comic'
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' actually started out as [[Filler]], because the author wasn't able to get the hand-drawn comic ready on time. He attempted to launch the hand-drawn comic twice (the second time after killing the [[Author Avatar]] in the sprite comic), but poor pacing, a premise that intimidates ''[[College Roomies
* [[Questionable Content]] 's art has improved out of all measure, and Jeph is redrawing the early strips for the print edition.
** He only redrew those strips for which he had lost the art files so that they were of print quality.
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