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* ''[[The Mad Scientist Wars]]'' has been going on for over a year and a half now, and has managed a huge number of pages with several highly complicated plots, and character backgrounds, and running gags... not even *counting* the Lounge (where the creators talk), The mad sci Tales (short pieces to do with MSW), and... so on. To the point where a summary has been worked on.
* Gaedhal's "Queer Theories" has been going for almost a decade now.
* The ''[http://lightning.ffstories.net/browse.php?type=categories&id=2 Sacrifices Arc]{{Dead link}}'', recced on the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' [[Harry Potter/Fanfic Recs|fanfic page]], is probably longer than JKR's novels. And so poignant and gripping that to begin to read it is to surrender the next month+ of your life.
* ''[[Cat-Tales]]'' has been updating on a chapter-a-month-or-so schedule for nine years, resulting in 60 separate stories (with almost 350 chapters, combined) and multiple (thankfully much shorter) spin-off series. Although heavily influenced by both the comics and the DCAU, it has its own cast of recurring characters and complicated storylines that require any new reader to start at the beginning before you're able to understand later stories. Thankfully, once you've read through it once, it's easy to stay updated... but oh, that one story back at the beginning was so good, maybe I'll reread it, and let's see, the next story was pretty good too...
* Arguaby, ''[[My Immortal]]''. You hear amusing lines from it. You hear about it. You want to know: "Is it really THIS stupid/silly/bad/awesome beyond compare?" So you read up on it, not wanting to receive the brain damage you've heard you'll get from reading it. Then you give up and read the whole thing out of curiosity, and bile fascination makes you read the whole thing (or you're generally amused by Enoby's adventures). So is it really as stupid/silly/bad/awesome beyond compare as everyone says? Answer: {{spoiler|Yes. A million times, YES.}}
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* ''Funny Farm'' has lasted for 9.5 years. And it updated every, single day. There were only a few months in which he didn't update every day. Instead he updated 4 days a week for a month or two, then 5 days a week for a month or two, and then back to every day. However, the entire archive has been removed so he can post the 9.5 years worth of 7 days a week over 5 days with commentary. So the weekend strips tend to rest on weekdays now. It's no longer an archive binge, more an archive wait.
* ''[[The Class Menagerie]]'' had ran for a little while, and the archive binge doesn't take as much as some strips like ''Newshounds'' and ''Funny Farm'' (Which it has crossed over with). Unfortunately, the strips are listed in the archive ''out of order'' so it's rather odd to see the "introductory" strips right after you finished several notable-sized story arcs. To make matters worse, some of the strips are even ''repeated''. (The crossover with ''Newshounds'' shows up twice if one reads the archive from the beginning)
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' is another 7 days a week 365 days a year strip, that has been running for just over eight years (with some gaps). However, Tatsuya Ishida seems to be fond of occasionally going back to earlier one-shot comics and giving them sequels (the "[
* Many new fans of ''[[YU+ME: dream|Yu Me Dream]]'' have Archive Binged the 847 page comic in one night.
* ''[[And Shine Heaven Now]]'' has been going up six days a week since 2003; even the author's hiati use [[Guest Strip]] filler. New readers have been known to lose a weekend there. Worse yet is that it uses ''[[Hellsing (anime)|Hellsing]]'' TV series and ''[[Read or Die]]'' continuity.
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* [[BZ Power]].com 's The Editorialist made a series called ''Psycho Dogs and Carbonated Beverages''. It has over 300 strips. They even lampshaded this trope in one comic.
* ''[[American Elf]]'', an autobiographical webcomic by and about James Kochalka, began in October 1998 and as of 2010 it is still updating every single day of the year. To put this into perspective, Kochalka has a five-year-old son. The archives of this comic are longer than his son's entire life.
* In ''[[Grey Is...|Grey Is]]'' the comic itself won't take so long to read, but the authors [https://web.archive.org/web/20120507103528/http://blog.greyismanga.com/ sketch blog] is filled with side stories, sketches and extra info on the comic and characters. It'll eat up hours of your time before you even notice
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' has 800+ comics in its archive as of this writing—hefty, but not gigantic. ''But''... each strip is the size of a standard comic book page (sometimes two, rarely up to four). So with each strip 3-8 times as long as with most webcomics... Well, you're gonna be in for a while. And then you'll want to read the two prequel books, and then the ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' strips....
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has snared a few newcomers into this with the loveable characters and indie references. Not that I read from #1 to #1100 over two nights or anything...
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