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* ''[[Something*Positive]]'' sets entire plot arcs on the day the arc is supposed to end. This is usually done for holidays (for example, an arc set on Valentine's Day will start early in February and hopefully end on the 14th).
* ''[[Books Don't Work Here]]'' As of [http://booksdontworkhere.thecomicseries.com/comics/60 Page 60] where this is [[Lampshaded]] the whole comic has taken place in one day. that same page also mentions that there will be two flashbacks coming before the day is done.
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' from [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106104401/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=242&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&extra=1&page=1&check=1 Chapter 3, Page 14] to (as of writing this) Chapter 28 takes place over only a few months of comic time, from the end of the school year to the Moon's End Festival. Faen's fleeing was originally drawn in 2003, which means it took 7 years real time for Ariel to rescue Faen. Talk about "The Longest Wait"!
** Additionally, one fan humorously pointed out that one character had been carrying [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106103924/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=631 another's dead body] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111106103603/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5843 for three years].
* All of the posted comics of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' represent about a round calendar month. This includes two story arcs ('Painted Black' and 'Grace's Birthday Party') which both took over a year and a half to cover periods of roughly six to eight hours, while the week that lay between them took another eight months to tell. The closest to real-time the comic gets is March 2003, which took place over about a week. Meanwhile, between May 2007 and August 2009, we have seen two full days pass and some change.
** As of Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 we wrapped up the day that began on Thursday, Mar 12, 2009. That's only about 10 months for a day.
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*** Amy's pregnancy leapt forward in one episode where she woke up, stared at her stomach and asked "how LONG between strips, anyway?"
* ''[[Wigu]]'' explicitly covered seven days between January 2002 and April 2005.
* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' [[
** TIAOB recently announced that it will be introducing ''seasons,'' that particular strip involving a [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090811.html giant robot knocking over a pile of freshly-raked autumn leaves.] It's also notable that Molly the artificial monster is still anticipating her first birthday, despite having been running around in the strip since 2006 (or since 1995, if you count the print comics version). Most of the strip's story arcs (the longest of which lasted a year) appear to take about a day or two.
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'' used to be a "nobody ever grows" strip, until a time-travel storyline published in 2006 retconned the previous strips and set the date definitively at 1997. By the end of 2008, in-strip continuity has reached 1998.
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*** And then it's revealed that {{spoiler|two of the characters in the Act 6 universe are actually living about four hundred years in the future.}}
* An angry mob in ''[[Instant Classic]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20160305002211/http://instantclassic.net/bd/index.php?comic=52 shows up] in a comic dated September 2007, but doesn't actually [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306173356/http://instantclassic.net/bd/index.php?comic=85 do anything] until June 2009. "... How long have we been standing out here...?"
* The entirety of ''Two Weeks Notice'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20100323130403/http://www.drunkduck.com/
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' the Light Warriors are given 24 hours to prepare to fight {{spoiler|Chaos}}, which in real life took from October to February of the next year. However, it's then played with when they realize (too late) that [[RPG Mechanics Verse|it only became night once one of them slept at an inn]].
* Although ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' was not immune to this trope, it has always managed to even out comic time vs. real time in the end. It remains to be seen to what extent its [[Spin-Off]] ''[[Bad Machinery]]'' will stick to this, considering that the story there starts three years later than the end of SGR, ergo in 2012.
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