History Main / WebComicTime

* ''GrrlPower'' recently celebrated its third anniversary in real-time. It has so far covered less than a day in-comic, and is still very much dealing with introducing characters and concepts.

* ''{{Tales of MU}}'' has been running since June of '07. In story, it is currently 35 days after Chapter 1. WordOfGod is that the author is deliberately following this trope.

* ''BreakingBad'': The first four and a half seasons ran from 2008 to 2012, but only covered a period of a little over a year. Lampshaded in the fifth season episode "51", where Walt has his first birthday since the one in the first episode and remarks that with all he's been through it "seems like longer" than a year. This trope ends up being averted for the last half season though, as it takes place over about a year by itself, ending right after Walt's 5'''2''' birthday.

* The ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' Main/ElewhereFic ''FanFic/BoyScoutsOneHalf'' started being written in 1997 as a contemporary work. As of 2013, the story has progressed as far as the fall of 1998.

*** 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''.

->"In conclusion I would recommend to not get hung up on birthdays or aging."
--> '''Pete Abrams''', author of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', on how much time has passed since the beginning of the story

-> "[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff500/fv00405.htm I know a day is just 24 hours, but that one felt like it took a year and 37 weeks to get through]]"
--> '''Florence Ambrose''', ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', hanging a lampshade on the trope.

* ''BreakingBad'': The show has run for 5 seasons since 2008, but has only covered a period of a little over a year. Lampshaded in "51", where Walt has his first birthday since the one in the first episode and remarks that with all he's been through it "seems like longer" than a year.

* ''Webcomics/{{Alice}}'':

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* Most fanfictions, if you think about it, are like this. Most of the stories take place over the span of a few days to a few months at most. With many of these stories, especially long ones, it takes the author over a year to fully complete it.
* Averted, and possibly inverted, in the case of Fanfic/GenderConfusion, where the one year anniversary since the first published chapter in real-world time takes place approximately three years after the first chapter in in-universe time. This is likely due to the fact that the author has a tendency to skim over boring parts that she's fairly sure no one will read anyway, and the fact that she updates at least once a week.
* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland Total Drama]]'' story, ''Fanfic/CourtneyAndTheViolinOfDespair'' inverts this trope. It consists of a series of loosely-connected vignettes that cover ten years (200+ years if you count the prologue), but the entire story was posted in a couple of months.
* ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'' gets new chapters bimonthly, but some chapters cover only a few hours' worth of events.
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--> ''"Florence Ambrose"'', ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'', hanging a lampshade on the trope.

** Dumbing of Age, however, uses webcomic time. From TheRant celebrating [[http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/news/were-one-year-old-today/ the one year (real time) aniversary]]:

* ''BreakingBad'': The show has run for 5 seasons since 2008, but has only covered a period of a little over a year.

* ''BreakingBad'': The show has run for 5 seasons since 2008, but has only covered a period of a year.

** In one of the flash videos, Dave has an entire monologue lampshading this trope, lamenting how ([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall hypothetical]]) people from a world where the world didn't end in 2009 would feel that his references were growing dated and ending it by wishing that he could see what the world would have been like if it had survived to the (then in-comic time present) of... 2011. (Said flash was released in 2012.) To quote:

* Alice and her friends are implied to be in in 6th and 7th grade from 1999-2005 in the webcomic of the same name. During that time, they celebrated numerous Christmas and Halloween events as well as Dot's mother having a ''fifth'' child.

[[caption-width-right:247:Prophets have NoFourthWall whatsoever.]]

* In a more egregious example, Agatha Heterodyne, hero of ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', entered Castle Heterodyne in the spring of 2008. As of early 2011, we haven't even reached the next '''day'''.
** 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]].

* Amusingly averted with ''[[CiemWebcomicSeries Ciem 1]]''. It is set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (2019-2021 to be exact.) [[AnachronismStew Possible future anachronisms like CRT monitors]] aside, the story took two years to make and takes place over the course of three years.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': The first 3 acts take place on April 13, 2009. (Due to excessive time travel, alternate universes and the constant back-and-forth of POV between the characters, almost all of the plot aside from flashbacks has occurred on five or so distinct days in separate universes, which, from the characters' points of view, all occur at the same time. MindRape yet?) Naturally this leads to confusion when RealLife holidays start cropping up. [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002969 So much sweet loot.]] You'd almost think it was simultaneously your birthday, AND Christmas or something. [[LampshadeHanging Of course you know that is ridiculous and could never conceivably happen.]]

* ''Webcomic/VampireCheerleaders'' and it's sister comic ''Webcomic/ParanormalMysterySquad'' began in early 2011. So far the two series have covered a period of seven months from approximately September/October 2011 to April/May 2012. The current crossover story arc covered the week leading up to the prom and began in May 2012. As of 5/24/13 the prom night battle has only just ended two weeks ago after taking several months of real time to finish. The arc itself however it currently still ongoing.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'''s sagas are sometimes (the Saiyan saga, and some of the {{Tournament Arc}}s 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}}s catch up to the present and then some -- 35 years pass over 10-11 years real time.