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* ''Webcomic/{{Paranatural}}'': Chapter six "The Activity Club and the Insidious Infiltrator" took place over the course of a single day, but lasted four years (late 2014 to late 2018). The next chapter contains this exchange:

* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' 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).

* ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale'' While the comic has been going for eight years, only a few months have passed in-universe, starting with Quinn's stepping up as queen after her father's passing. Outside of Red's seventh birthday and Lantern Day, no major indicators of time have been shown.

* As of November, 2012, all of the posted comics of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' have taken place over about 134 days (just over 4 months). January 21, 2013 was the comic's 11th anniversary.
** 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 of 2003, which took place over about a week. Meanwhile, between May 2007 and March 2009, two days passed.
** As of Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 we wrapped up the day that began on Thursday, Mar 12, 2009. That's only about 10 real-months for a comic-day.
** For a complete timeline, check out [[http://elgoonishshive.wikia.com/wiki/El_Goonish_Shive_Timeline the Wiki.]]
** The month of March starts [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-05-12 here]] and ends [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-05 here]]. That is almost seven years to cover a month. It was an eventful month, but still...
** 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...
*** The math is basically: 450 days in-comic (15 months) is equivalent to 15 months of RealTime, as 450/30 equals 15, so 15 months / 1 day.
*** And 15:1 is ''still'' pretty tame compared to some more extreme examples below.
** WebcomicTime is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-06-04 this comic]]: "June 7th continues. Again. It will never end."
** Tedd gets knocked off his feet in the January 22, 2013 page. He lands five comics later. That's a week to depict ''two thirds of a second''. The author lampshades this in the commentary of a [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1554 subsequent update]] (where, ironically, we witness a TimeSkip that covers six months, which is longer than ''the entire comic's run'' up until then).
** In this case, the problem becomes evident due to the (non-magical) technology available. In March, the wealthiest main character has a flip-phone and [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=871 complains about her pay-per-text plan]], but by April (three real-time years later), phones [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1155 capable of uploading videos]] to Website/YouTube are common. The days and dates given indicate that the year could be 2002 or 2013.
** As of the 'Pandora's Box' arc, the story is well into the month of January again, making it almost an entire in-universe year since the comic started, as opposed to the 12+ years that have passed in real-life.
** Lampshaded in-story in [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2001 this]] installment of the "Squirrel Prophet" story-arc. The [[WritingAroundTrademarks Magical Cards]] tournament started mid-April 2014 which was the beginning of the evening that was still going on end December 2014. Granted, a lot of character development and plot exposition happened but still ...
---> '''Sarah''': I just realized how hungry I am.

** In March 2023 started the "Our Future" arc, where Mr Tensaided [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/ourf-005 mentions]] video rental stores as still being a thing, albeit not for long. As TheRant summarizes:

* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' is set in the far future, in a distant starsystem with no stated earth-date, so staying synced to the calendar is no issue, but the story so closely follows its character's lives that one of the in-story days took 250 comics (over a year and a half) to tell. This got [[LampshadeHanging pointed out]] as one of the main characters [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00405.htm hit her bed exhausted]].
** The 2050 comics since its start in 1998 span about [[http://www.crosstimecafe.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=18&p=7486#p7486 twenty-two days in-comic]].

* An infamous example was ''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 WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' can be considered an example of this, given that it started in 2002 and, as of the beginning of the England arc in 2017, only covers [[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Internal_Chronology a little under three years]] -- and two and a half years of ''that'' was a TimeSkip that was glossed over. The England arc itself would take at least another five years.

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' has, after approximately sixteen years, covered about three days. This is rather understandable, considering it's an exceptionally detailed, professional-quality comic done in the artist's free time. In addition, mountains of backstory, accompanying art, and silly side-comics have been released in the time between the (roughly monthly) main comic updates.

** In March 2023 started the "Our Future" arc, where Mr Tensaided [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/ourf-005 mentions]] video rental stores as still being a thing, albeit not for long. As theRant summarizes:

** In a more egregious example, Agatha Heterodyne entered Castle Heterodyne in the spring of 2008. She left the castle in November 2011 after a day or so in-universe, and [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111104 the act of ringing the Doom Bell]], which she ordered the minute she left, took three weeks. And then bystanders [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111130 noted that they had hit]] the ''two minute'' mark after the Bell in a strip that came nearly ''four weeks'' later (thanks to spending the month showing what various cast members were doing when it rang).

** In a more egregious example, Agatha Heterodyne entered Castle Heterodyne in the spring of 2008. She left the castle in November 2011 after a day or so in-universe, and the act of ringing the Doom Bell, which she ordered the minute she left, took three weeks.
** Immediately following this, the entirety of the November 2011 strips were timed in-universe. In the last panel of the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111130 November 30th]] update, exactly two minutes have passed since the [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111031 October 31st]] update.

* In a more egregious example, Agatha Heterodyne, hero of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', entered Castle Heterodyne in the spring of 2008. She left the castle in November 2011 after a day or so in-universe, and the act of ringing the Doom Bell, which she ordered the minute she left, took three weeks.
** Immediately following this, the entirety of the November 2011 strips are being timed in-universe. In the last panel of the [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111130 November 30th]] update, exactly two minutes have passed since the October 31st update.
%%** The entire webcomic can be considered an example of this, given that it started in 2002 and only covers [[http://girlgenius.wikia.com/wiki/Internal_Chronology 2 months and an unspecified number of days]]. More recently, time skipped forward by three years and a half. %%Needs updateding because Tropes Are Not Recent

* ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' has, after approximately six years, covered about two or three days. This is rather understandable, considering it's an exceptionally detailed, professional-quality comic done in the artist's free time. In addition, mountains of backstory, accompanying art, and silly side-comics have been released in the time between the (roughly monthly) main comic updates.

* ''Webcomic/{{Rain}}'' began in 2010 and was initially set in late 2012. Since then, less than a year has passed for the cast. Much of this was due to the author's own health, transition, and need for breaks, which left a few long gaps between parts of the story. All of this is lampshaded at prom, where Rain points out that so much has happened in the 8 months since she arrived that it feels like it's been nine years. Chapter 41 finally skips ahead to [[spoiler: 2019, where Rain has been sharing her story as an [=AMA=] online.]]

--> '''Sarah''': I just realized how hungry I am.
-->'''Grace''': Yeah, it feels like our dinner before the tournament was '''months''' ago.
* In March 2023 started the "Our Future" arc, where Mr Tensaided [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/ourf-005 mentions]] video rental stores as still being a thing, albeit not for long. As theRant summarizes:
-->This comic began in 2002, and only about a year has passed in-universe.

* Lampshade in ''Webcomic/DragonMango'' [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/two_month.jpg here]] where a character notes that more time has passed out-of-universe since the last strip was posted.