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* ''[[Walkyverse|It's Walky!]]'' (as well as its sibling comics ''Roomies!'' and ''Shortpacked!'') took place more or less in real time. Occasionally, time would slide forward (for example, a storyline that took four months to cover the space of a couple hours ended, and the next storyline kicked in a few months later, synching back up more-or-less with the real world.)
** Dumbing of Age, however, uses webcomic time. From [[The Rant]] celebrating [http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/news/were-one-year-old-today/ the one year (real time) aniversary]:
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What a roller coaster ride. Those were some good times.
May we all live to see Saturday. }}
* Parodied in ''[[Tsunami Channel]]: [http://www.tsunamichannel.com/index.php?date=2005-10-12&comic=ExCoKo Experimental Comic Kotone]'', in which a character causes a [[Temporal Paradox]] by buying an iPod Nano even though the story takes place in 2001.
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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is a classic example. One storyline titled "5 Minutes at a Party" took roughly a month. Lampshaded: [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071112 "You've been gone for 4 weeks but it feels almost like a year!] Implicit jump-forwards over boring bits allow keeping the stories' time roughly but explicitly parallel to the real-world date (and bonus stories to be inserted earlier in the continuity retrospectively).
** Combined with a dash of [[Comic Book Time]], as once explained by [[Word of God|Pete]]:
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* Only a few months have passed so far in ''[[Venus Envy]]'', despite the fact that the comic has been running for nearly seven years. In fact, the cast has been working on a school production of ''Romeo & Juliet'' since November of 2002.
* ''[[Misfile]]'' began in March 2004, and is just getting to Winter 2004 in Winter 2011. [[Word of God]] states that the whole comic is slated to end {{spoiler|sometime around summer 2005}} which should give us at least another year-and-a-half of strips.
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* ''[[Enjuhneer]]'' has lampshaded this as the result of "[[Timey-Wimey Ball|putting Pocky in a time machine]]."
* ''[[Think Before You Think]]'', in [http://thinkbeforeyouthink.net/?comic=20110211-becky-sings this comic].
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* [[A Loonatics Tale]] solves the problem by ignoring it. The comic is set more-or-less in the modern day, but in a completely different world, using a calendar that puts the events of the comic somewhere around the year 3000 (by which I mean, they're not using the Gregorian calendar). As of this writing, it's the beginning of summer, but the current story arc is taking place sometime in autumn (except for the bit at the very beginning, which is a flashback to the beginning of summer about twenty years ago).
* ''[[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.
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* [[Dragon Ball]]'s sagas are sometimes (the Saiyan saga, and some of the [[Tournament Arc|Tournament Arcs]] are notable exceptions) set over the course of no more than a month. Major events which take a year or more in real-time to draw or animate last maybe one to three days in-story. In an inversion, the [[Time Skip|Time Skips]] catch up to the present and then some -- 35 years pass over 10-11 years real time.
* Late in the [[Rurouni Kenshin]] manga, a subtle [[Fourth Wall]] gag slips in as Sanosuke tries (not too hard) to remember a pair of villains from the beginning of the series.
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'''Brothers:''' '''Half''' a year! }}
* The climax of the [[Fullmetal Alchemist]] manga, covering almost two years worth of chapters, takes place over a single day.
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