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* ''[[Drowtales]]'' from [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 [http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=631 another's dead body] [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
** 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.
*** For a complete timeline, check out [http://elgoonishshive.wikia.com/wiki/El_Goonish_Shive_Timeline the Wiki.]
*** Even Dan seems to be getting slightly freaked out about it - although we've FINALLY moved on a couple of days (quite rapidly too), both the comic for 18th Aug 2010 and its commentary are part hanging a stadium-size lampshade, part flat out pointing out the time-warp. A scene took place noted as "Last October" (vs the then current in-strip date of "April 7th")... which apparently ''PRE-DATES'' - quite significantly - the comic's first storyline... published more than 8 1/2 years earlier. That's a ratio of about 15:1 on AVERAGE...
*** And 15:1 is ''still'' pretty tame compared to some more extreme examples below.
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* Similarly, five years of ''[[Megatokyo]]'' cover just over two months of plot (''one day'' per chapter, plus 52 days for 'Chapter Zero', six weeks of which was skipped over entirely while a main character recovered from injuries).
** It gets especially bizarre when you consider that, despite ostensibly taking place in 2000, characters will make references to whatever is going on whenever the strip they're in came out. For example, strips that supposedly occur only a few days apart reference [[Metal Gear Solid]] II and IV, which came out ''years'' apart. Perhaps the most extreme case is Ed (a Sony employee)'s shirt, which promotes the as of then unreleased [[PlayStation 3]]. When the [[PlayStation 3]] finally was released, the logo on the shirt changed to PS4 (which due to Sony's "Ten year plan" wouldn't even be ''announced'' until ''2016'').
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* [[Grey Is...|Grey Is]] is released 6 pages a week, however it can sometimes take 60 pages just to get through to get through a single day
* ''[[College Roomies from Hell|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
* [[Lampshade Hanging]] on technology datedness in [http://cutewendy.com/go/41 this] ''cutewendy'' strip.
* 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]].
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** ''QC'' is remarkable in that nearly every day of story time has a clear beginning and end, shown both by story (daytime vs evening activities) and by changes of [[The Merch|t-shirts]]. As of October 2008 about 58 days have been shown, with gaps of unknown duration. The longest continuous sequence so far was 13 days (strips 396-750, 16 months in real time).
** Emphasized in the [[News Post]] of the [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1309 first comic of 2009], where the author notes that the comic will soon feature its first [[It Is Always Spring|change of season]] in its run. Its ''five-and-a-half-year'' run.
** The breakup between Dora and Martin [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1799 as of November, 2010] illustrates the problems that occur around this trope; in
* In ''[[Between Failures]]'' 488 comics from to March 2007 to July 2009 covered around 1 1/2 days, with the 1st day taking 305 strips.
* An infamous example was ''[[Avalon (webcomic)|Avalon]]'', which started in November with the beginning of 10th grade, and by the end of December, was synced up so that most days fell somewhere within the storyline showing them. It was meant to run until graduation (three years later in Canada), but during the last year of story time, the author's updates became more and more sporadic, and he began to backdate the comics. Two years past the expected finale, he threw the towel in and described the events that followed in an unusually involved [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]].
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** 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. }}
* 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
* ''[[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.
* A particularly epic example: ''[[Elf Life]]'''s "The Wedding" storyline, chronicling the events of a single day, ran for about ''two years''! It did, however, contain several extended flashbacks.
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* 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]].
* Although ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' was not immune to
* It's hard to tell, but it seems like only at most two months have passed in the last seven years of ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''.
* Lampshaded in this ''[[Ménage à 3]]'' [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20100624.html strip].
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* In ''[[Bleach]]'', the back-to-back Hueco Mundo and Fake Karakura arcs took over three years in real time, but in-story happened over the course of ''less than 24 hours''.
** Before that the Soul Society Arc took place over two years and covered around three weeks of in-world time, mostly focused on the last few days.
* [[Dragon Ball]]'s sagas are sometimes (the Saiyan saga, and some of the [[Tournament Arc
* 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.
{{quote|'''Sanosuke:''' Yeah, I guess I remember that... four years and a half ago, wasn't it?
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