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Pulled "Hoomestuck" out of the collection of "MS Paint Adventures" - Homestuck is now listed as a completed web comic with over 8,000 strips, and the rest of the collection is listed under the "Counts and status need to be verified" subsection of Over 2,000 strips
(Pulled "Hoomestuck" out of the collection of "MS Paint Adventures" - Homestuck is now listed as a completed web comic with over 8,000 strips, and the rest of the collection is listed under the "Counts and status need to be verified" subsection of Over 2,000 strips) |
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* ''[[Sinfest]]'' began Jan 17, 2000; hasn't missed a day since July 10, 2006; reached 4000 on August 19, 2011 and had 8,552 strips as of June 16, 2023. It's passed ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' and is catching up to ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', but will always trail ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' as long as both strips remain on one-per-day updates.
* ''[[Alex]]'' first appeared on the internet in June 1999, but has been a newspaper comic since 1987. Hit 3000 web strips in June 2007. The most recent strips are only available via ''The Telegraph''; there were 8,359 strips on the strip's website on June 16, 2023.<!-- The archive might be pants, but the strips are numbered. -->
=== Completed Web Comics ===
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': The MS Paint Adventures Wiki [https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Homestuck says] "''Homestuck'' is the fourth and largest story of ''MS Paint Adventures'', with 8,123 pages (out of 10,030 MSPA pages). It started on the 13th of April 2009 (4/13/09), 413 becoming a recurring number in-universe. The story contains foul language, violence, gore, and other adult themes. The comic ended on April 13, 2016, 7 years after the stable release was first published. The Credits were posted on October 25 of the same year."
=== Counts and status need to be verified as of June 16, 2023: ===
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=== Current Web Comics ===
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' began September 5, 2002; reached 2000 on September 14, 2010; reached 6000 on July 21, 2021; and has 6013 strips as of August 3, 2021.<!-- Some days have multipe strips, so don't just count days here! -->
* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' had [[Jail Break|its first update]] on June 3, 2007,<ref>though technically ''[[Jail Break]]'' is a little less than a year older, having started in September 2006; this was when it was still just a forum game and MSPA wasn't a thing though</ref> and [[Homestuck|its 6000th page]] was posted November 13, 2011. There are 6831 comic pages on the site as of May 20, 2012, not including the 40 fan-requested comics, the 42 ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' comics, [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=ryanquest Ryan Quest], [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scraps2/vigilprince.html The Vigil Prince], or Dave and Terezi's comic/picture exchanges.<ref>For those who wish to keep the tally up-to-date, from the numbering scheme in MSPA urls, numbers 7, 137-170, 217, 218, 992, 4299, 4938, and 4988 do not have comics. On the other hand, 11 pages (the two pony chorales, a joke panel for an MC adventure, and the eight linked comics on pages like #2418) are not associated with numbers. This means that, currently, url numbers overshoot comic numbers by 30.</ref> The comic is much, much, ''much'' younger than the other comics listed in this section (the site started in 2007, and didn't become regular until March 2008), due to how insanely prolific [[Andrew Hussie]] is; since the beginning of ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', the comic has averaged nearly 5 pages ''per day''.▼
** ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' itself has about 1621 pages (started March 10, 2008, 1000th page on October 22, 2008, finished March 10, 2009.)▼
** It should be noted, however, that a page of MSPA may not be comparable to a four-panel comic strip, or for that matter to another page of MSPA. Most are single panels with a short looping GIF animation (often only a second or two long), but some have somewhat longer animations or multiple panels, and ''Homestuck'' includes many interactive [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] games or pseudo-games and several-minute-long cinematic animations set to original music — which also count as one page. Some of the games can even entertain readers for several hours. And when there's dialogue in ''Homestuck'' rather than just narration, the dialogue (in the form of a chat log) is almost always longer than text in a traditional panel comic, and is regularly several pages in length; as of the second-year anniversary, it weighed in at around 300,000 words long.<ref>As a point of comparison, ''[[War and Peace]]'' is between 460,000 to 590,000 words, depending on the translation</ref>▼
** On February 11, 2011, the site as a whole passed ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' to become the largest web comic on record, and it shows no signs of stopping. Mind you, "the site as a whole" has more than one web comic and ''K&K'' is only one of Bill Holbrook's comics, so this isn't an equivalent (or fair) comparison. As mentioned above, on November 13, 2011, it surpassed 6000 strips.▼
==It's over 5,000==
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* ''[[Legostar Galactica]]'', the first webcomic to use [[LEGO]] elements, began Aug 25, 2002 and reached 2000 on April 24, 2010.
* ''[[Melonpool]]''
▲* ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' ('''MOD: Follow the example set by the ''[[mezzacotta]]'' strips and break this up into its component strips as well, giving each one a separate entry. ''Homestuch'' is already separated out.''') had [[Jail Break|its first update]] on June 3, 2007,<ref>though technically ''[[Jail Break]]'' is a little less than a year older, having started in September 2006; this was when it was still just a forum game and MSPA wasn't a thing though</ref> and [[Homestuck|its 6000th page]] was posted November 13, 2011. There are 6831 comic pages on the site as of May 20, 2012, not including the 40 fan-requested comics, the 42 ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' comics, [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=ryanquest Ryan Quest], [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scraps2/vigilprince.html The Vigil Prince], or Dave and Terezi's comic/picture exchanges.<ref>For those who wish to keep the tally up-to-date, from the numbering scheme in MSPA urls, numbers 7, 137-170, 217, 218, 992, 4299, 4938, and 4988 do not have comics. On the other hand, 11 pages (the two pony chorales, a joke panel for an MC adventure, and the eight linked comics on pages like #2418) are not associated with numbers. This means that, currently, url numbers overshoot comic numbers by 30.</ref> The comic is much, much, ''much'' younger than the other comics listed in this section (the site started in 2007, and didn't become regular until March 2008), due to how insanely prolific [[Andrew Hussie]] is; since the beginning of ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'', the comic has averaged nearly 5 pages ''per day''.
** The MS Paint Adventures Wiki [https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Homestuck says] "''Homestuck'' is the fourth and largest story of ''MS Paint Adventures'', with 8,123 pages (out of 10,030 MSPA pages)." Thus, the rest of ''MS Paint Adventures'' combined is in the "It's over 2,000" section.
▲** ''[[Problem Sleuth]]'' itself has about 1621 pages (started March 10, 2008, 1000th page on October 22, 2008, finished March 10, 2009.)
▲** It should be noted, however, that a page of MSPA may not be comparable to a four-panel comic strip, or for that matter to another page of MSPA. Most are single panels with a short looping GIF animation (often only a second or two long), but some have somewhat longer animations or multiple panels, and ''Homestuck'' includes many interactive [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] games or pseudo-games and several-minute-long cinematic animations set to original music — which also count as one page. Some of the games can even entertain readers for several hours. And when there's dialogue in ''Homestuck'' rather than just narration, the dialogue (in the form of a chat log) is almost always longer than text in a traditional panel comic, and is regularly several pages in length; as of the second-year anniversary, it weighed in at around 300,000 words long.<ref>As a point of comparison, ''[[War and Peace]]'' is between 460,000 to 590,000 words, depending on the translation</ref>
▲** On February 11, 2011, the site as a whole passed ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' to become the largest web comic on record,{{verify|reason=Isn't this a collection of web comics, not a single web comic?}} and it shows no signs of stopping. Mind you, "the site as a whole" has more than one web comic and ''K&K'' is only one of Bill Holbrook's comics, so this isn't an equivalent (or fair) comparison
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' - daily from July 2001 to New Years' Eve 2006.
* ''[[PvP (webcomic)|PvP]]''
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