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* ''[[CRFH|College Roomies From Hell!!!]]'' seems to progress at an overall rate of a month every two years, but some individual story arcs may take six months or more to cover a few hours.

** Hilariously explained in [http://www.crfh.net/d/20100827.html this] guest strip, nine months into a very, ''very'' long day that didn't actually end until the strip was [[Retool]]ed, ''seventeen months later''.

* Comics like ''[[PvP]]'' and ''[[Unshelved]]'' avoid this by having all comics (save the rare [[Story Arc]] ones) set the day they are posted. Time moves naturally and each strip is a snip from their daily lives in our timeline, allowing the characters to instead inhabit [[Comic Book Time]].

* Although ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'' have celebrated Christmas every year for the past 11 years, the two main characters have only aged two years.

* ''[[Loserz]]'' ran over six years ([[Series Hiatus|with breaks]]), but the characters are still in High School.

* Avoided in a rather novel fashion by ''[[Sins|The Sins]]''. Each outing can not only take several years of in-comic time, but are told in a non-linear fashion, with some outings taking centuries before or after the preceding arc. This allows the comic to have team members who have retired or died come back without altering continuity. Fans still hope we never see the time period with the new Envy again, though, as he is also the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of the [[Replacement Scrappy]].

** Combined with a dash of [[Comic Book Time]], as once explained by [[Word of God|Pete]]:

{{quote|In Sluggy Freelance we often signify the passing holidays, so actual years go by, but are the characters of the strip really a decade older? I have to admit the gang is getting older but maybe not THAT much older. }}

* Averted with the Webcomic version of ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'', which takes place in real-time.

* ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' apparently took place over two years, although the summer internship arc took place over a couple weeks.

* The [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=113529 "VilAnon"] chapter of ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' had Jane telling her life story over the course of one evening, but took 15 months of real time to complete.

* ''[[Homestuck]]'': The majority of the plot so far took place on April 13, 2009. (Due to time travel and alternate universes, almost all of the plot asides from flashbacks has occurred on five or so distinct days in separate universes, which, from the characters' points of view, all occur at the same time.) Naturally this leads confusion when [[Real Life]] holidays start cropping up. [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002969 So much sweet loot.] You'd almost think it was simultaneously your birthday, AND Christmas or something. [[Lampshade Hanging|Of course you know that is ridiculous and could never conceivably happen.]]

** The entirety of Act Five Act Two takes place over the course of more or less exactly 24 hours. It ran for more than a year from 9/19/10 to [[Arc Number|10/25]]/11.

** Act Six is a bit strange because {{spoiler|while it takes place on November 11th, 2011, it's set in an [[Alternate Universe]].}}

*** 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.}}

* The entirety of ''Two Weeks Notice'' [http://www.drunkduck.com/two_weeks_notice is supposed to take place over a singular period of two weeks] but has been running for over a year, even though the author has talked about ending it for more than half of that.

* 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]].

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' typically maintains a 12:1 ratio of time, so 1 month in the webcomic is about a year in real life. However, this is by no means standard, and there have been a few books that pick up weeks, or even months after the previous one left off.

** Book 12, the current arc, has taken almost 11 months, and only a few hours have passed in the comic.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Dragon Ball Multiverse]]'', when an annoyed U18 Vegeta mentions that it felt like two years since his fight in the tournament, when only a couple of hours have passed in the comic.

* The infamous [[Potty Emergency|bathroom break]] from ''[[Pawn]]''. The act therein, and the conversation between Baalah and Ayanah occurs in what looks like, the span of a few minutes. The actual progress of the comics release, meant it lasted for ''almost a year.''