This troper, upon discovering Opera, attempted to read through GirlGenius, LookingForGroup, and MahouSenseiNegima ''at the same time.'' He had to abandon all three to avoid permanent brain damage.

Would said brain damage involve a Sparky undead warlock who accidentally strips his teammates? :-P

No, but it did involve a 10-year old emperor who kills indiscriminately.

Finishing reading the archives two weeks before the strip ended describes this editor's experience with ''BobAndGeorge''.

Mine as well. Though it's not a webcomic I also had the same experience with ''RedVsBlue'', though future of that series is still up in the air it continued in another series.

At least ''Bob and George'' had a weekly option. The vast majority of the time is waiting for each strip's page to load.

This editor discovered ''Exploitation Now!'' and decided to read the archives when the second-to-last strip was on the main page.

This troper read all of ''Exploitation Now!'' and then realized it was actually already over. Luckily I read it before it disappeared off the face of the internet, so I guess we're both lucky.

It's still online actually.

Right here.

I myself started reading {{Sexy Losers}}, finished my archive binge on an update day, and then had the next strip be the last one ever. Without any kind of warning either. Just update and "bored now, no more strips."

Which seems to be that particular artist's approach to a lot of things in life. And he wonders (in comic commentary and his semi-autobiographical comics) why it's been such crap.

Replace "two weeks" with "the day before the last strip" and you've got me and ''DragonTails''. Started reading when the 1,999th comic was up, read for hours and hours continously, so long it stretched into the next day... and got to the final page, the 2,000th comic, where he celebrated ending the comic.

I started reading TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND some time around strip #480, and the ArchiveBinge itself took two days. When I finally got to the front page, I saw the "I'm on schedule to end the comic" announcement, and was a little displeased...

This troper read the whole thing a couple of months ago, a few years after it finished the story arc.

This troper finished reading ''AMiracleOfScience'' almost exactly a hundred pages before the end. Not as sudden as many of the examples here, but it was still disheartening to think that it was so close to the end.

This troper has been and still is desperately attempting to read ''everything'' on this site, especially the bits related to ''CodeGeass''. It's been a month... Now to get back to the other 15 tabs open she has.

I once read every trope on the wiki, but that was back in 2004 or something, when it was a lot smaller.

This troper discovered ''FreeFall'' due to this website, and decided, as it's the weekend, to read through the 1700 comics that have been released. After finishing the first 1100 Saturday night/Sunday morning and the next 600 Monday night, and are now all caught up for when the author returns some time in June.

I remember when I first found {{PennyArcade}}. Took 3 8-10 hour trips to finish the archive. Again with {{BobAndGeorge}}. Also had the problem again when I first found {{CountYourSheep}}, though I dont think I even made it past 2007. Once again with {{Girly}}. Probably happens about 90% of the time I find a new webcomic.

I took one look at how long Penny Arcade is and decided it was better to just jump in at its current point and hope to god there isn't any real continuity.

This troper has given up all hope of truly catching up with {{One Piece}}. I've skipped tons of chapters and skimmed a whole lot of parts to at least get the basic gist of the story and it's themes and mood. Forget about reading everything; I'm just not ready to get that invested when I don't even know if I'll still be interested years from now.

This troper went to the UnflinchingWalk page. Upon seeing the ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'' example, he looked at it. That strip got him interested. And then he hit the first strip button and read the thing on and off for a few weeks. He is now at the main page and waits impatiently every week for the next two pages.

Of all the sometimes-repeated {{ArchiveBinge}}s This Troper has made, there were only two (non-manga, reading more than a volume or two of manga online for any given series causes too many migraines) times the troper succumbed to ArchivePanic: One was giving up on UserFriendly a few years in (it was originally avoided because of the art style, then given up on because it wasn't worth going through in the troper's opinion), and the other was realizing that ''{{Narbonic}}'' was the predecessor series to SkinHorse (which was liked and finished up to the present), and the entire vanilla edition would have to be read ''before'' the annotated version. Update: The Narbonic ArchiveBinge is going strong. Any other failed archive binges (such as GirlGenius) were due to web browser cache failure rather than ArchivePanic. Just see TroperTales/ArchiveBinge for a ''sample'' of the LongRunners the troper has bested (one ''or more''' times).

this troper upon realizing how long buffy was.... After a few epis, he decided to {{ArchiveBinge}}, on the other hand.

This troper has faithlfully read every strip of ''Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal'' for years. He JUST realized the red button below the comic is additional content like XKCD's tooltips. The red button that's been there since January 10, 2007.

I feel ya. I read through the entire xkcd archive sometime last year, and then learned that those tooltips existed.

For this troper, HomestarRunner is ruined for me, due to the fact that I no longer have the time to search for why it is that Bad got [[BeyondTheImpossible a ''new'' computer.]]

Which? The 486 in 2004 or the Compé in 2009? And does it REALLY matter?

This troper met a record collector who has gone out of his way to collect every record from his favorite bands. But he refuses to buy any more Agathocles albums. If you wanna know why, go read their Discogs page and look at how tiny your scroll bar shrinks.

This troper is pretty much the queen of Archive Panic. As in, trying to follow TV shows that run more than one season gives her actual panic attacks. So don't ask her why she's apparently attempting to watch ''everything'' on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses- she's clearly some kind of masochist.

Holy crap, same here! I always get stressed to the point of no sleep when I think about all that I need to catch up on in entertainment. So much so, that I've recently started avoiding {{LongRunners}} like the plague. This also happens to me with stores that I like, but haven't been to in awhile.

This Troper. The Fetishes IJBM thread. Nuff said.

Hey, is that still on?

This Troper is not dismayed by archive binge. His DVD collection runs to just over 4000 episodes of stuff, spread over 52 (mainly spec.fic.) TV series. At 3 episodes a day (average), it would take from now until November 2013 to watch everything, even if he stops buying anything more.

As much as I love ChristopherEccleston, DavidTennant and MattSmith, I don't think it would be feasible to watch every surviving episode of ''Series/DoctorWho'' from 1963. I'm also struggling through watching most of TheAngryVideoGameNerd, TheCinemaSnob and Linkara's stuff. Not that they're crap (though of course they improve over time), there's just so much of it. It's almost a godsend that the Nerd is deliberately airing less often. And I don't know where to START with SciFiDebris.

One more: how the fuck did I manage to watch all those Disney movies when I was younger? There must have been like 20 cassettes, at least!

This troper would like to mention that following the Eccleston series, he watched as many Classic Who episodes as he could, and got from William Hartnell to most of the way through Tom Baker before the Christmas Invasion (not including missing episodes, obviously).

Not so obviously; aren't there audio recordings of most missing episodes? I know that would be 'listened to' rather than 'watched' but still. As a side note, that would mean roughly two thirds of the classic series in six months, with another ten seasons or so before catching up to Tennant.

This is ''precisely'' why, while I have a secondhand appreciation of Classic Who, I'm probably not going to try and watch all of it at any time in the near future. (For the record, I'm the scoffing troper a few bullet points down.)

After trying to read all of LeastICouldDo I just plain threw up my hands and gave up. I wonder how they do it, it's not even a sprite comic!

This troper managed to consume all of Questionable Content in a couple of weeks. Now it's a case of All Caught Up Blues and One Day at a Time (these should be webcomic tropes, btw).

I discovered QC on Sunday. I just caught up to the newest strip (#1818) today. It's Wednesday. Yeah, I get into it a bit sometimes.

After one day suddenly realizing that {{Pokemon}} is a pretty light-hearted anime that's actually funny in many places, I decided to systematically watch every episode in sequence. I managed the feat missing only five (the latest episode at that time was [=DP062=] or so), but I'm probably not going to touch another long runner in a while. Good thing there really isn't any that interest me at the moment anyways.

this troper, if effort to forget about the serious illness of her grandfather, was watching old tapes and discovered an episode of 'digimon' she hadn't seen. it cut off, so she went online, found a website that had all the episodes...and spent 3 and 1/2 days doing little but watch 104 episodes. the website went offline soon after.

Normally I scoff at ArchivePanic (because I read quickly and have far too much free time). But ''{{Homestuck}}'' managed to do it, with its five-thousand-ish pages at the time of writing. I caught up with it in about a week, and that was counting a couple days when I wasn't moving forward because I couldn't be arsed to poke around with the Flash game at the start of Act 3.

Ditto. It took my a month of cajoling to get me to start, and about half way into Act3 to get serious. Still took me about a week to get caught up. Can't wait for him to update though!

Dear God, Homestuck. A set of people this troper follows on Tumblr became obsessed with the comic all at about the same time, which led me and several other friends to attempt simultaneous Archive Binges. One week later, none of us have finished yet - I'm frantically marooned in the middle of Act 5 Part 1 (after restarting somewhere in Act 4 because I couldn't understand what i'd just read) and have been avoiding my Tumblr feed for fear of the spoilers clogging the system. And it's worth every second.

Time bugged before reading: About 3 weeks, maybe a month. Time reading so far: Two days. Up to around halfway through act 4, just after [S] Jack: Ascend. This is all irrelevant in light of the fact that last time I came to this page I found Homestuck, tried reading it, wasn't interested after about 2 pages and gave up when I remembered someone mentioning it was over 5000 pages long and updated so regularly there would probably be another 500 pages to read by the time you caught up to the day you started reading.

Looking through links in Slendy Mythos. Slightly close to done with MH, so I decide to look a bit at EMH. Oh...Oh God. No, just...just not. Not happening. Although it's not so much "there's a crapton of stuff on one channel in a linear fashion" but rather "there's a crapton of stuff on ''several'' channels in a completely ''non-goddamn-linear'' fashion and I cannot be bloody arsed to look up everything, TL or not".

BlankIt, on the other hand, I binged quickly, over a 2 day period. Also, I gave up on bingeing Homestuck a few days ago. I was more than "mildly" invested but less than "deeply" invested for most of it, until I got to, you guessed it, ACT 5. The abundance of absurdly long pesterlogs and the fact that I COULDN'T GIVE LESS OF A CRAP ABOUT TROLLMANCE makes for a very dull trawl. So I completely skipped it completely.

Been following ''Pokemon'' since it first came out back when I was in third grade and am still following it to this day, granted I haven't seen every episode, though I haven't missed one since "Master Quest" Since I don't have cable, I have to wait until the [=DVDs=] of the most recent seasons come out before I can catch up with them though, It wouldn't be too hard for me to go back see the episodes i've missed, but i'm just too damn lazy and i'm content just keeping up with newer seasons.

This Troper is easily daunted by Archive Panic, at least where TV is concerned. It's generally pointless for him to buy TV seasons on dvd because they'll just sit on a shelf. Still hasn't learned his lesson, though. Most recent example: Twin Peaks. The Pilot is interesting, but as long as a movie. Troper got three episodes in, procrastinated about watching, and just gave up.

For this troper, binging is the only true way to enjoy any kind of serialized entertainment. Spaced, The first five seasons of The Office (US), Being Human (UK)'s first three series, are amongst the shows this troper only got into because there was the opportunity of overdosing on them. Farscape, on the other hand, was a show this troper managed to resist the urge to watch episodes of, until there was a chance to get the entire series and TV movie and binge until near glorious delirium. Currently airing shows are a torture for this troper because of having to wait an entire week, and don't get me started on hiatuses, that's where panic dwells for me.

This Troper was dumb enough to get into StarWars and the DCU...and try writng FanFic for both. How in hell do you ''start'' when you've got 80 years of comic books and the mynok's nest of films, comic books, paperbacks, games, etc. on the latter?

I got pretty into Star Wars for a while, but I never even considered trying to watch/read ''everything'' in the EU. I would just pick up one side series at a time as it was available to me and get any other info I needed from the wiki. The only one I really tried to get all of was the Dark Forces games.