History EarlyInstallmentWeirdness / Webcomics

* ''Webcomic/{{Sunstone}}'' used to be a collection of pin-up images consisting of Ally dominating Lisa and Anne. Many of these featured descriptions of Ally enslaving them and subjecting them to unsafe punishments, as might be expected of a pure fantasy scenario. Since deciding to write ''Sunstone'' as a serious story aiming at debunking popular misconceptions of BDSM the author removed most of the problematic strips...
** ...for them to later reappear [[DaydreamSurprise as fantasy sequences of main characters. ]]

* One of the first plot arcs in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' involves an aborted romance between Marten and Faye's coworker Sara. Sara [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome vanished completely]] after strip #66; as Faye and Dora became the female leads.
** Hannelore's introduction in [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=515 this strip]] contrasts pretty sharply with her later characterization. [[{{Retcon}} Retconned]] by her explaining she was on strong anti-anxiety meds at the time.

** The very first strips are the only ones featuring a character from outside the Metal Gear Solid universe (save for very occasional gag strips), specifically ''ComicBook/XMen'''s Cyclops. The author says that it's probably because it was 2003 and the X-Men film had just been released.

* In ''Webcomic/LitleNuns'', Several things were quite different during early strips:

* The first 13 comics of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' have no plot and take place in a blank featureless dungeon. Then they introduce the ExcusePlot of having to kill an evil lich. Around the 120th strip they finally get out of the dungeon, but there still isn't much emphasis on plot. Around page 300 however, things start to [[CerebusSyndrome heat up...]]

* The very first strips of ''WebComic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' are the only ones featuring a character from outside the Metal Gear Solid universe, specifically ''X-Men'''s Cyclops. The author says that it's probably because it was 2003 and the X-Men film had just been released.

* In the few years of ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'', it occasionally indicated the existence of fantasy creatures, including gnomes, the Tooth Fairy, and literal trolls. Since they did not appear (completely) onscreen, we could not tell whether they were as humanoid as conventionally depicted. The author later decided that his FurryComic was weird enough without them.

* In the prologue of ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'', Almond complains "we haven't had a decent fight [[BreakingTheFourthWall this whole chapter]]!" Later points do have characters LeaningOnTheFourthWall (eg by causing {{Odd Shaped Panel}}s, or the Dream Oracle batting away some end-chapter narration) but but it's never been outright punctured since then.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': When the Unstoppable Airman Higgs makes his [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070406 first appearance]] he isn't ''that'' unstoppable. He keeps going, sure, but he's more a {{Determinator}} who refuses to give up despite two broken arms and an infected leg, rather than his later portrayal as an ImplacableMan who can somehow just shrug such things off [[spoiler: because he's secretly a Jägar. Since his first appearance is recounted second-hand, of course, it could have been downplayed as part of his cover]].

** Then there's later the technologically average Annie building a robot out of spare parts in Chapter 1 (later retconned as requiring no skill due to modularity of the Court robots) and notoriously antisocial and reclusive Zimmy willingly and eagerly participating in a school science fair in Chapter 3.

* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'':
** The comic is pretty good at keeping up with its own continuity, and holds well together if read from the beginning. However, the [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erfcast.html original cast page]] at giantitp.com, before it moved to its own website, was posted before the first page of the actual comic, and there are some minor deviations from later continuity. In particular, "Dirtamancer" is spelled "Dirtomancer", and the cast page refers to the Plaid and Croatan "tribes", not mentioned in the comic itself, instead of aligning the characters with "sides", which are typically named after their capital cities. (In fact, the prequel book reveals that Wanda was popped in the Goodminton side, making no mention of the Croatan tribe.
** And in the actual comic, the first uncroaked units to appear are three skeletons. After that, all uncroaked units are portrayed as decaying zombies.

** On a related note, the way the early comics dealt with the frequent GenderBender aspects was significantly different and less informed from how it eventually came to deal with {{Transgender}} themes.

* The author of ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' admitted that the second chapter doesn't fit with the rest of the comic, because he was still figuring things out. Since it's popular with the fans, he's left it in place.
** Then there's later technically average Annie building a robot out of spare parts (later retconned as requiring no skill due to modularity of the Court robots) and notoriously antisocial and reclusive Zimmy willingly and eagerly participating in a school science fair.