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When the author of a series abandons the storyline entirely, either from lack of interest, time, money, inspiration, or [[Author Existence Failure|pulse]], the series is said to be orphaned.
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This is a distressingly common problem with [[Web Comics]], as many are written part-time by authors who have significantly underestimated the amount of time and effort of scripting and drawing three strips a week; a series may begin to suffer more and more frequent (or longer) [[Schedule Slip|schedule slips]], until the author either takes [[Series Hiatus|an extended hiatus]] which then becomes permanent, or else simply stops updating the series without warning to the readers. Free comic hosting sites such as [[Comic Genesis]] and [[Drunk Duck]] are littered with the wreckage of hundreds of such series, some of which have only a [[Stillborn Serial|single introductory strip]] to indicate that they ever were even conceived.
On rare occasions, a seemingly
An even worse case is when the webcomic literally vanishes from the Internet, because the account it was hosted on was deleted due to the bill not being paid in a long time.
The more extreme [[Schedule Slip]]s blur the line. See also [[Dead Fic]]. Compare [[Vaporware]], which is something the creator claims ''not'' to have given up on—but almost all the fans have.
[[wikipedia:Unfinished creative work|Here's]] an article in [[The Other Wiki]] about it.
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'''[[The Stinger|Statler]]''': Who cares? They never should have been started!
'''[[Statler and Waldorf|Both]]''': [[Memetic Mutation|Do-ho-hoh]]! }}
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