Comic starts off as a gag-a-day comedy

>comic starts off as a gag-a-day comedy
>eventually develops a "deep" plot and worldbuilding for some reason
Why does this keep happening every time?

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What cartoons have those? I can only recall Adventure Time. Maybe Steven Universe but there's already some established deep-lore worldbuilding from the start.

>We want the Adventure Time audience
I suspect that patient zero for this was Codename: Kids Next Door

Obviously people have ambitions greater than making gag-a-day comedy.

>OP says "comic"
>everyone brings up cartoons instead

OK which comics have these aside from Cerebus and Homestuck?

Does The Goon count?

name 20

These things only work if the groundwork was laid out ahead of time with the creator's intention from beginning instead of a patchwork of retcons and asspulls.

Name 10.5 comics that do this.

megatokyo, absolutely

there are only so many gags to do, before the author gets bored and wants to try out something bigger.

pandering to network executives to get their project in the door

any Dave Willis comic

Les Nombrils

This

Its why it works with shows like Gravity Falls and Kamen Rider Gaim and not shows like Star vs the forces of evil

there's nothing wrong with worldbuilding in an episodic show as long as it
>serves the episode
>is used sparsely
>isn't forgotten after the episode ends

But Garfield is still running and has been for forty years now

Does SCUD count?

Because garfield needs to fit as one of many on a newspaper and has corporate higher ups breathing down his throat

It's good though.

A Scooby Doo shonen reference?

My first thought was: >Les Nombrils
Then:
Bobbins which morphed into Scarygoround, then to Bad Machinery
Schlock Mercenary, but my memory's real hazy, didn't seem like there was a plot at the start
Melusine, after the original writer walked away

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And it's been a blight on this planet for nearly as long.

JUST

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garfield is kino and one of the only good things left in this piece of shit world

This literally never happens in Asterix or Lucky Luke. Enjoy

That's is what was slowly happening to Oglaf until they dropped the Apprentice arc.

Funky Winkerbean?

Is that worse than now, where the joke of the day is just "DICKS!"

It's all part of the creative experience, it eventually turns to shit though.

It hurts!!

Well the comic started out with her getting gagged daily...

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