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Related to Comic Book Time, Webcomic Time takes place when time taken by the story of a Web Comic (or other form of serial media) takes place over a shorter (in-universe) time than the (real-life) time it takes for the comic to actually be produced. This is due to a couple different reasons. The first, and simplest, is that while inter-panel and inter-strip jumps allow them to take place over any length of time, three or four panels usually only represent a few minutes. With most strips updating three to five times a week, it's easy to spend a couple of weeks on a single conversation.

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  • Webcomic Time
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  • Related to Comic Book Time, Webcomic Time takes place when time taken by the story of a Web Comic (or other form of serial media) takes place over a shorter (in-universe) time than the (real-life) time it takes for the comic to actually be produced. This is due to a couple different reasons. The first, and simplest, is that while inter-panel and inter-strip jumps allow them to take place over any length of time, three or four panels usually only represent a few minutes. With most strips updating three to five times a week, it's easy to spend a couple of weeks on a single conversation.
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  • Related to Comic Book Time, Webcomic Time takes place when time taken by the story of a Web Comic (or other form of serial media) takes place over a shorter (in-universe) time than the (real-life) time it takes for the comic to actually be produced. This is due to a couple different reasons. The first, and simplest, is that while inter-panel and inter-strip jumps allow them to take place over any length of time, three or four panels usually only represent a few minutes. With most strips updating three to five times a week, it's easy to spend a couple of weeks on a single conversation. Secondly, of course, is that updates are often late or skipped for personal reasons, delaying the in-continuity time further. Over time, this slippage can add up to years; topical references early on may become incredibly dated later, even if it was supposed to take place on the same day. This especially affects Two Gamers on a Couch series, since technological progress can quickly make references to new consoles and top-of-the-line gaming machines obsolete. If Exponential Plot Delay gets involved, things can get really bad. There are several ways webcomic authors compensate for this: * Backdating comics to match up with the date they are supposed to have occurred. * Explicitly setting it in the time the comic started. * After each Story Arc, explicitly skipping forward over "boring" periods of time. * Implicitly skip forward, by mentioning dates every so often. This mostly applies to less-continuity-based comics. * Constantly use Lampshade Hanging on the idea, or outright parody it (sometimes with Medium Awareness). * Or, don't compensate, and just use a system similar to Comic Book Time. This doesn't (necessarily) apply to comics that are set outside of the present day, except for cases where it does, such as if an in-universe character decides to hang a lampshade on the relation to real time. Examples of Webcomic Time include:
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