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All webcomics have a problem with comic time being slower than real time, some examples are available on tvtropes. Obviously, the whole of EGS (which started in 2002 and as of June 2023 covers less than a year and a half of comic time (see the timeline)) is a good example, but the ratio is not linear ... let's list the more interesting examples.

Note that it can actually cause problems, or at least make the Technology progress in EGS look weird ...

Most comic time per real time[]

First the inverse: the most comic time passing in the smallest amount of real time is obviously the half year long timeskip in EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-02-01.

Most real time for comic time[]

The obvious winner in terms of ratio of real time to comic time is in There be Whales Here 3: the two-thirds of a second Tedd was falling took a whole week since EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-01-22 to EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-01-28 (5 pages). That is ratio 907200:1.

Notable long days[]

Story[]

Most of Relations, starting with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2002-03-26, and most of Catnip, ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2002-05-24, take place on Monday, January 28 and the following night, making 54 pages (excluding April Fools Week) over nearly two months that take place on the same day.

Sister parts 3 (beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2002-06-19) to 5 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2002-08-28), 51 pages from more than two months, take place on Wednesday, January 30. Additionally Sister II part 2, three pages beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2008-05-26 and ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2008-05-30, takes place on the same day.

Sister parts 6 (beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2002-08-30) to 8 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-02-21), 83 pages from more than five and a half months, take place on Thursday, January 31.

Night Out, parts 2 (starting with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-05-12) and 3 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-08-05) constitute 62 pages over nearly three months that take place on Friday, March 1.

Tam Eh Tedd, beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-08-18, and Painted Black, ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2004-07-05, take place on Saturday, March 2, making 164 pages over ten and a half months to cover a day and two flashbacks.

Family Reunion, beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2005-04-25, and Grace's Birthday Party, ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2006-09-29, take place on Saturday, March 9, making 159 pages (excluding a mini-Q&A) over a year and five months to cover a day.

All storylines from The New Students (starting with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2007-05-23) to Sister II, part 1 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2008-05-23), 59 pages over one year, take place on Monday, March 11. Additionally the last four pages of the preceding storyline, In The Shadows (starting with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2007-05-01) take place on an unknown time the night before.

Sister II, parts 3 (starting with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2008-06-02) to 6 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2009-03-10), 57 pages over more than nine months, takes place on Tuesday, March 12.

Sister II, parts 7 (starting with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2009-03-12) to 10 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2010-01-21), 58 pages over more than nine months, takes place on Wednesday, March 13

Most of New And Old Flames, part 6, beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-04-01 and ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2011-06-22, 50 pages over more than two and a half months, takes place on Friday, April 12.

Power Fantasy (beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2012-04-02) until Hair (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2012-07-19), take place on Friday, June 7 (except one page that takes place on the day before), 55 pages (again excluding the page that takes place on the day before) over more than three and a half months.

Most of Family Tree, from the EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-05-01 to the EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-09-04, 87 pages over slightly more than five months, takes place on New Year's Eve.

Identity, from the last page of part 7 (EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-12-18) to the end of part 11 (EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-02-27), 47 pages over more than one month, take place on the same day (likely the Thursday before Squirrel Prophet) and (probably fairly early in) the following night. Additionally most of part 7 (beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-12-10) take place on the night before, making a total of 52 pages.

In Squirrel Prophet parts 2 and 3 Grace is on her way to school in EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-04-01, Justin is at the shop later the same day in EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-04-15, later joined by Grace and others, and the characters leave a few hours later at EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-12-31 just to end the day probably not a whole hour later on EGS Main Story Comic for 2015-02-11. That's 182 pages over more than ten months covering one Friday. Additionally the prologue of Squirrel Prophet, 12 pages long, beginning in EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-03-12, likely takes place the night before, making a total of 194 pages and nearly eleven months.

So A Date At The Mall, except a flashback starting in the last panel of EGS Main Story Comic for 2015-07-24 and ending in EGS Main Story Comic for 2015-08-07 except its last panel, runs from EGS Main Story Comic for 2015-03-02 to EGS Main Story Comic for 2016-05-16 ("Soon"), 162 pages over fourteen and a half months to cover just a few hours of the day after Squirrel Prophet. Question Mark and the last page of Squirrel Prophet take place on the same day and the following night, making a total of 172 pages (excluding a mini-Q&A).

Sister 3 parts 2 (beginning with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2016-07-20) to 7 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2017-01-11), 73 pages over more than five and a half months, take place on the day after So A Date At The Mall.

Sister 3 - Catspaws parts 19 (starting with EGS Main Story Comic for 2017-08-30) to 25 (ending with EGS Main Story Comic for 2018-07-06) take place the following Friday. That's 128 pages over more than ten months.

The Saturday of the party in Title Pending, running from EGS Main Story Comic for 2019-07-15 to EGS Main Story Comic for 2021-03-08, lasted 229 pages and nearly twenty months.

The Saturday of Balance, parts 6 (beginning with the last two panels of the EGS Main Story Comic for 2022-02-02) to 9 (ending with the EGS Main Story Comic for 2022-09-28 except its last two panels) lasted 86 pages and almost eight months.

NP[]

Playing With Dolls started EGS:NP Comic for 2014-08-04 and ended at EGS:NP Comic for 2015-01-19, 72 pages (excluding a non-canon intermission) in five and a half months again covering just a few hours and being the SAME Saturday as the Date At The Mall (also, Question Mark, with 33 pages (excluding a mini-Q&A) over nearly three months, from EGS:NP Comic for 2015-02-23 to EGS:NP Comic for 2015-05-18 happened the same day).

MV5, beginning with the EGS:NP Comic for 2015-09-21 and ending with the EGS:NP Comic for 2016-03-18, takes place on the one day and is 77 pages (excluding an intermission that may not be canon and at least does not take place the same day) and nearly six months long.

Marker and Escape From The Mall together covers maybe an hour or two in late October lasting from EGS:NP Comic for 2016-07-25 to EGS:NP Comic for 2017-03-10, 98 pages (excluding a non-canon intermission) over seven and a half months.

Parable shows a dream that takes place on one night and lasts 217 pages (beginning with the EGS:NP Comic for 2019-08-28 and ending with the EGS:NP Comic for 2021-02-04) and more than one year and five months.

Who Is Ellen, beginning with the EGS:NP Comic for 2022-06-16 and ending with the EGS:NP Comic for 2023-08-15, takes place on one day and lasts 166 pages over fourteen months.

Most of Nanase and Her Fox, starting with the last panel of EGS:NP Comic for 2023-09-14 and ending with EGS:NP Comic for 2024-03-05, takes place on one Saturday, making 67 pages and a third over five and a half months.

Longer periods[]

The first 13 days of March of the first comic year runs from EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-05-12 to EGS Main Story Comic for 2010-01-21, 690 pages (including flashbacks but not Q&A and guest comics) spanning over 6 years and 8 months.

All story comics from the EGS Main Story Comic for 2013-10-15 to the first four panels of the EGS Main Story Comic for 2022-09-28 except Q&A comics and flashbacks, about 1300 pages (excluding Q&A comics) over more than eight years and eleven months, have taken place within 31 days. That includes 661 pages, most of Squirrel Prophet (starting with EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-03-12), So a Date at the Mall, Question Mark and most of Sister 3 (ending with EGS Main Story Comic for 2018-07-06), which take place between the night before one Friday and the next Friday, more than four years (along with Q&A 7 and two flashbacks) covering eight days.

Lampshading[]

Title "Last October (Holy crap, this predates Goo!)" on EGS Main Story Comic for 2010-08-18 refers to something happening BEFORE start of comics, which is mentioned in that title, as well as in commentary.

Title "June 7th continues. Again. It will never end." on EGS Main Story Comic for 2012-06-04.

Grace complains on EGS Main Story Comic for 2014-12-30 she feels like her dinner before the tournament was months ago.

Related weirdness[]

Sarah's hair growth[]

Note that technology is not the only stuff changing suspiciously fast. There was at least one case where Sarah's hair grew quite long overnight - and note that there was no magic involved as there was in Nanase's case around EGS Main Story Comic for 2012-06-11. The endpoints of this timespan are EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-05-12, the start of the double date with Tedd and Grace on Friday, and Sarah's waking up in EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-08-21 on Saturday. However, the hair was already a little longer during the date, as seen on EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-06-02 ... and the Q&A session, while out of continuity, also seemed to help, see EGS Main Story Comic for 2003-08-06.

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