Overly Long Gag / Webcomics

Overly Long Gags in webcomics.

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• 1/0: Junior is focused on in the last panel beginning in this strip and ending in this one, annoying the living hell out of him and cutting off the rest of the character's conversations.

• Dragon Ball Multiverse: Almost turned into an arc with the whole monster under the bed thing.
• In El Goonish Shive, Elliot's shocked face in the last panel of this comic continues for the entire 9 panels of the next comic and only ends in the first panel of the subsequent comic because Elliot falls over. Lampshaded in The Rant of the second comic:

Dan: Next week: 45 more panels of this.

• In Homestuck, Karkat shoosh-papping Gamzee into submission takes nine whole panels.
  • Caliborn shooting Gamzee takes four whole flash sequences.
  • Homestuck itself references Red Dwarf's very own overly-long gag (see: this trope's live-action TV subpage) in a conversation between Jake English and Dirk Strider's Auto-Responder, and later in a conversation between John and Terezi.
  • When John first meets caliborn, the two have an "intense staredown," with several panels of them staring at each other. And later on, they have "another intense staredown".
• Hyperbole and a Half: "I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird! I'm a bird!"

• The Order of the Stick, when Roy goes shopping. That scene is actually a spoof of the classic Monty Python cheese shop sketch, which some may argue is, in itself, an Overly Long Gag.
• The Penny Arcade strip "Perhaps Slightly Exaggerated" contains four whole panels of Gabe puking.
• "Scientifically" sketched out in this Reprographics strip.

• Sandra and Woo has Sandra staring at a motionless UFO for a dozen panels.

• In Sluggy Freelance, Dr. Viennason explains the dimension of timeless space by illustrating what happens when you run out of time supplies. By standing perfectly still for thirteen panels. Although he breaks it to surreptitiously glance at the camera if you look carefully in the tenth panel. Also in Sluggy, sixteen panels drive home the pun in a Gofotron battle with a sledgehammer.

• xkcd:
  • "Tab Explosion" starts with 22 drawn-out panels of a stick figure at a computer monitor clicking and making brief comments. It's then revealed to be TV Tropes, because TV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life.
  • In "Significant", when a scientist is told that jelly beans cause acne, the scientist explains a test could not link between the two. After being asked about it again, the same explanation is repeated for twenty panels straight.

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