Bonus strips added when a comic/
Web Comic is published as a book. A
Sub Trope of
Bonus Material. See also
Side Story Bonus Art.
Examples:
- The first The Adventures of Dr. McNinja book has Alt Text (first introduced in the second issue) added for the first issue. The third book has a short story starring the side character "The Beeman".
- The The Order of the Stick books tend to do this (not counting the two print only stories). For example: Dungeon Crawling Fools has a set of new comics introducing the characters better than the cast page on the website. Lampshaded in-story twice. Once when characters suggest they add an unseen bit of action as bonus content for the next book and when Haley is suffering under a speech-impediment that turns all her speech into cryptograms, she can still communicate with The Oracle. When asked, he says that no, he doesn't understand her - he just has the power to look into the future, for when the strips are released in book-form with translations attached.
- Some Calvin and Hobbes books have extra strips done in watercolor.
- Sam and Fuzzy had an extra story and some Skull Panda strips in its first mini-book, and probably similar in the newer ones, but I haven't read them.
- Some of the Girl Genius collected editions have extra story pages, to clarify details and/or to make sure that the big double-page spreads end up on facing pages.
- There is a new extra comic included in one of the X-Wing Series Omnibus collections, about Wedge being a Destructive Savior and Luke defending him from angry townspeople.
- Both El Goonish Shive books have an additional silly story and a Post Episode Trailer.
- The Sluggy Freelance collected volumes
contain these. The character of Deplora was actually introduced in one of these bonus stories before being brought into the main strip.
- The Axe Cop book, in addition to publishing every episode of the webcomic released up to that point, includes commentary from Ethan on the Ask Axe Cop strips, plus fanart.
- Tea House does cleverly: it lures potential readers by promises of yummy mansex, traps them by a captivating plot, and rakes in the chips by keeping the great majority of the smut as well as some extra strips print-only.
