I started making a list of completed comics on this site, because I feel this kind of thing was still missing here. I know I'm not alone in that.
More on that below, especially on how to contribute.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f8AB9ZyUJreu9i6sTI0xiyVtoShfHV-FkLEp2YfsTX0/edit?usp=sharing

You can use the “Sort sheet A to Z” function when clicking on the column letters on top to browse the comics according to your liking. There's a main list, which guarantees you a full reading experience from start to finish, and an honourable mentions list, which kind of does too, most of the time (also see below for details).

If you enjoyed any of these completed comics and there is a print or digital download still available, please consider supporting its creator by buying one. At the very least, in case they're still around, please do leave them some friendly comments.

What this is about

I've been working on this on and off for almost a year now, and Gunwallace's recent newspost and especially the comments on it convinced me the time has now come to present to you what I've done.

Completing a webcomic is something to be proud of. It's also a nice thing for new (and old) webcomic readers to be able to read a story from start to finish. Unfortunately, webcomics that stop updating become more or less invisible very quickly. How does that fit together?!

When we all were brainstorming ideas for the big site redesign, the idea of tagging comics as completed naturally came up. It would be a great thing to have something like a fourth row for completed stories, top ten or random style. However, this is not going to happen any time soon, as adding new features will have to take a backseat to tons of other more pressing things. This has been discussed at length before in the community.

So I went and created a Google spreadsheet to index the finished comics on the Duck I know of, and always added to it when I stumbled across another one.

I heard that a spreadsheet like this can be made into a searchable database, perhaps even one that looks decent. If anyone knows how to do this, and is willing to spend some time on it, that would of course be awesome. Another idea could be to use it as source material for a fandom wiki or something, which will require a lot of helping hands.

In any case this list may be useful as a reference. Who knows? Unlikely as it seems, perhaps some of the long-gone comic creators who made many of the comics on the list might even come back because people get interested in their work again.

At the time of writing, the main list has got 181 entries, which together amount to more than 32,000 comic pages for you to enjoy. However, I'm sure it's still far from complete, probably never will be. We all know the Duck's servers are full of hidden treasures - tens of thousands of comics and almost a million pages as far as I can guess on the basis of what I've been sifting through. As I would like this to become a list by the community for the community, this is where you come in. Now that I'm done laying the groundwork, everyone's help is needed!

If you'd like to contribute:

If you know or find any completed comics that are not on there yet, please tell me, and I'll add them to the list asap. Same for any corrections, suggestions etc..

Just a few things I'd like to ask you to keep in mind:

▪ Before making a suggestion, please check if it's already on the list. It'll take just a few seconds that will save both you and especially me a lot of time.

▪ Make sure your suggestion fits the tentative guidelines (see below). I'll check too, just in case, but it'll help a great deal.

▪ If you find your own comics and name on the list, please check if the entries are correct. I may have overlooked or accidentally misrepresented something, as I of course haven't read everything on the list, as much as I'd like to. Or perhaps I made a similar mistake with a favourite of yours - I'd appreciate if you let me know.

▪ Don't forget to spare the hon. mentions sheet a glance as well. It may be on there for some reason. That's why all hon. mentions items get a commentary explaining why I put them there as a basis for further discussion.

Btw. if you'd like to join me as a curator for this Hall of Fame, with editing rights, send me a PQ. I've unsolicitedly given editing rights to Ozoneocean to try it out :) (and because I think admins should anyway have access just in case).

Suggested guidelines as a reference if you're not sure:

Call them rules if you like, but as I want this to become a community effort, they're all up for debate. It's actually just a collection of my various thoughts over the past year.

This list is only for comics that have been completed. This is quite a great achievement for a webcomicer, and the idea is to reward it by not just letting all that hard work slip into digital oblivion. For a comic to get an entry there, it needs to be…

▪ a self-contained story that has been completely wrapped up* AND

▪ available to be read here on the Duck in its entirety.

(* Word of God is the final word here, even if there are loose ends - loose ends or cliffhangers may be left dangling on purpose to fire your imagination. As a matter of fact, most authors/artists make it abundantly clear when they intend to conclude their comic, e.g. by saying so in the comic description, in the last author's comment, writing “The End” or “Fin” on the bottom of the final page, and/or by staging a grand finale that can hardly be mistaken for anything else. After all, ending a webcomic after years and years of work and interaction, is not something you do lightly. Shorter comics that go online, on the other hand, are very often previously finished works, and their creators will generally tell you that right away, knowing it's a strong incentive to follow it. As short comics have only a small window of online visibility, it's only reasonable to take all the incentives you can get and capitalise on them.)

These two criteria may look simple, but as you've either seen right away or will soon see, they're not at all as clear-cut as you might think (and as I admittedly thought, too, at first). Please think of the following as guidelines for special cases that I came up with in the process of cataloguing. They're very strict out of necessity, as I'm sure you're going to see quickly if you haven't already.
This said, all of it is of course always up for discussion in this forum thread, and exceptions can and should be made if there's a good reason to.

▪ It's an anthology or collection of individual self-contained stories, most of which, ideally all, have been finished. YES
However, if they're active, like Lite Bites or Somewhere In The Universe (even if they're awesome - check them out!) I tend not to include them, because readers have a decent chance of finding them by regular means. I'd suggest reserving honourable mentions for short stories embedded in a larger active comics to those cases where it's less obvious for new readers that they can be found there. Also see below.
This whole topic is something I think we're going to have to talk about.

▪ It's a gag strip or an episodical comic without much of an overarching story, but the author/artist has made explicit they consider it concluded. YES Let's give those the benefit of doubt.

▪ After finishing the story they originally set out to tell, they later tried to add a sequel but didn't finish that (yet)? - YES The original run is a self-contained story, isn't it? Being on this list is not meant to get in the way of creativity.

▪ There's another, later comic in the same setting, that hasn't been finished (yet)? - YES Ditto.

▪ Just between us, I think this comic sucks, and everyone with a little shred of decency should agree with me. / This comic's topic isn't really my thing, like not at all. YES, anyway. This is for each reader to find out for themselves. Can't argue about taste, can we?

▪ It was only mirrored here on the Duck. YES It's here and it can be read in its entirety. That's what matters.

▪ It is self-contained as a story but interwoven within the pages of a larger, e.g. episodical comic. It depends. (also see above) A definite YES, if that larger comic is inactive, so the Hall of Fame is its main chance of being found. That's its main point of existence. Even so, I wouldn't rule out a honourable mention if the specific case warrants it - e.g. when the completed story would be hard to find for new readers without going through the entire archive.
(I added this a day later.)

▪ Due to intimate inside knowledge (e.g. you've witnessed the comic's creation process, but the comics' creator told you if you told anyone about it, they'd have to kill you for the greater good, or you just know the comic from elsewhere on the interwebs 😉) you know with 101 % certainty that this comic is going to be completed, unless doomsday happens a bit earlier than we all thought? - Cool! Be sure to drop a note here when it's done. It may also get a “waiting loop” place in the honourable mentions until it has run its course and the entry can be transferred to the main list.

▪ It's unclear whether the story has actually come to a close or not. Generally, NO but may become a YES There would have to be a broad consensus that it has, or even better, a confirmation by its creator if we can still reach out to him/her/it.

▪ The completed comic is a chapter or volume of a larger installment, so the story isn't over and there were/are plans for more to come? - Generally, NO We might agree on exceptions though, if enough of us think it should be on the main list anyway.

▪ The author/artist said or implied in some way that the story wasn't over, there were plans for more pages to come, even if they never did? - Well, in that case, sorry but NO

▪ The artist/author announced mid-comic or whatever they wouldn't continue the comic because they couldn't be bothered any more? - Sorry, but NO They should at least have wrapped it up in some way, and if only by dropping a 20,000 t weight on the main cast out of the blue or something (not literally, please, in case this trope gets overused).

▪ The comic stopped just one or two pages short of being wrapped up but up to that point it's been like so totally awesome it literally hurts not to put it on this list. - Sorry, but NO 😭

▪ The comic was abandoned on the Duck (as in not even kept up as a mirror) but was finished at another hosting site like ComicFury, Tapas or whatever? - Nope! Got to draw the line somewhere, and rewarding someone who leaves this site, directing visitors from the Duck to the competition would definitely be a line crossed, wouldn't it? Keeping these comics off the list is nothing but just desserts, no matter how good they are.

BUT: If it moved to its own site, and that site hasn't died in all those years yet, it may get an honourable mention. I feel that's special - a sobering number of these sites didn't last too long, possibly to some extent because of the way the internet has changed since. More importantly, I'd also like to somehow take into account that at least ten to twenty years ago, when this seems to have occurred especially often, people tended to think of setting up their own sites as a natural second step up the ladder to stardom or at least a higher degree of professionalism, the artist starting to make a living out of it, and so on. Can't blame them for that, can we? As I said, it's all up for discussion here, but I think it can't hurt at all to give those select individuals for whom this step up the ladder actually worked out a little nod from where they effectively started their career.

If the comic has had an initial run on the Duck that is short a couple of pages, but the whole thing is available in print or as an e-book, I'm inclined to give it an honourable mention too, for pretty much the same reasons, albeit reluctantly so, and just a few preview pages accompanied by a link definitely don't count. That's just advertising, the kind you can find in any online book store. I only make these exceptions at all because print publishers may sometimes get a bit peeved about your continuing the online version once you've landed with them.

(The big BUT above was somehow eaten by my keyboard* in the original post and so reconstructed and added a day later.)

* Yes, my keyboard has indeed a huge appetite for ham, sometimes. 🙄

What I've done so far to get all these entries (aka how to find completed comics)

Well, nothing spectacular, really. I just kept this at the back of the mine when reading comics here and whenever I came across a completed one, I just put it on the list. Over time, I've been getting better and better at spotting promising candidates to click in Quail's Random, as if developing a kind of instinct for them. Found astonishingly many that way, in fact - it gave me a new appreciation of this front page feature.

Then there were of course those lurking somewhere on my favourites list (I'm way too lazy to ever delete anything anywhere) others have been mentioned here and there or are such Drunk Duck classics that you practically can't not know about them. I was able to add some more by fooling around with the advanced search function, going through old awards comics and features (far from done with that).

My list contains

Wolf - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Wolf/
Shades - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Shades/
Locoma - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Locoma/
Off Hours - https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/Off_Hours/

MAJOR kudos Paul, that is incredible! Most of the ones I know of are already on the list, but if I run into any that aren't I'll be sure to mention them.

Good criteria too!

Oh, I just remembered:

Vacman by Spooky Kitsune is complete!

Amazing! Well done. This is a very valuable resource.

Neato!

Slightly off-topic, but I remember many ages and moons ago, there used to be a Wiki for webcomics, but I guess it went under, because it disappeared long ago. I believe it was called Comixpedia or something like that.

Cool beans, PaulEberhardt. Hey, Starship Captain II, Mars II and Sword Princess Yukisaki are already there!

Another comic I don't see on the list is The Last Will & Testament Of Elgar Cavendish which was intended for the Duck horror antho, but I messed things up length-wise.

Here's a head-scratcher, I completed a comic called Pyramid of Death, but that happened inside the bigger You Call That A Stick Figure Comic? – and the pages aren't consecutive. If there was an option to copy or move pages from one comic to another comic, I'd pull it out so it was a 15-page standalone. I could always create a new comic and upload the pages, I suppose, but that feels like cheatin' somehow. Oh well, too bad.

But good work, man!

Thank you for all the applause and kind words, everyone! 😊

@usedbooks: Locoma wasn't there yet, but now it is. How could that one have slipped past my radar?! Thanks!

@Amelius: Added, thanks!

@dpat57: Added Last Will… right away of course. Thanks!
As for Pyramids of Death, I feel it totally belongs on the list somehow, and there shouldn't be a any need for anyone to pull anything out from one comic into another just to meet criteria. They're meant to be flexible anyway.
For now, I put it on the honourable mentions list I created specifically for this kind of thing, as You Call That A Stick Figure Comic itself is active, giving readers a certain chance of finding it other than this list. If you're OK with it, that is.

PaulEberhardt wrote:
@dpat57: Added Last Will… right away of course. Thanks!
As for Pyramids of Death, I feel it totally belongs on the list somehow, and there shouldn't be a any need for anyone to pull anything out from one comic into another just to meet criteria. They're meant to be flexible anyway.
For now, I put it on the honourable mentions list I created specifically for this kind of thing, as You Call That A Stick Figure Comic itself is active, giving readers a certain chance of finding it other than this list. If you're OK with it, that is.

That is just excellent, thanks!

Suggestions:

The shooting

Terminal velocity

Kirth space bounty hunter
This last one im'not sure is completed, there might be a volume 2 in the working.

Great work Paul! Just stunning! I went ahead and made it sticky/important.

I'd advocate that if a volume 1 is completed even with volume 2 announced, a title should be added to the completed comics provided the story in volume one wraps up neatly and there's no cliffhanger. I definitely consider WM vol. 1 a completed comic that fits in that category of “adding another installment down the road” you mentioned.

In the end though you're the Hall of Fame's grandmaster, these are my 2 cents. (Also I was bowled over to see people remembered to add Wolf in there XD)

Lastly, here's Melody and Macabre and Spitfire.

Tantz_Aerine wrote:
Great work Paul! Just stunning! I went ahead and made it sticky/important.

Thanks a million! Much appreciated!
I thought of asking about it but I didn't want to impose. :)

I'd advocate that if a volume 1 is completed even with volume 2 announced, a title should be added to the completed comics provided the story in volume one wraps up neatly and there's no cliffhanger. I definitely consider WM vol. 1 a completed comic that fits in that category of “adding another installment down the road” you mentioned.

In the end though you're the Hall of Fame's grandmaster, these are my 2 cents. (Also I was bowled over to see people remembered to add Wolf in there XD)

Yes, that's one of the things that have given me some headaches almost from the start. I tried to work around it by establishing that “if volume 2 is added as an afterthought” guideline - but honestly, how is anyone supposed to tell except for creators and big fans…
Which is exactly why in my function as the keymaster-or-whatever I declared, also from the start, that the one who wrote and drew it will always get the final word. So no head-scratching involved with Without Moonlight: it's been confirmed now, so I moved it from the honourable mentions to the main list.

For the same reason I put Kirth: Space Bounty Hunter on the main list as well, as (especially after reading the author's comment on the last page) it belongs there without any doubt.

With Terminal Velocity I think we need to ask BarryCorbett at the next opportunity. I gave it an honourable mention for now, because why not? However, I can't really tell whether it's finished or just on a long-term hiatus like my own (which isn't on any of the lists, as I consider myself far from done with it).

All the others have been added. Thanks!

Update on the stats:
Not counting the honourable mentions, we're rapidly closing in on 200 entries and cracked the 34,000 pages mark. Woot! 😎

That's a great project, Paul. Thanks for including Blessed Days!

There are a few honorable mentions in Belle's Best the Films of Belinda Brandon such as “Space Thrall” and “GOOB”. I'll have to go through and do the links when I get home from Europe. (I'm on unsecured hotel wifi right now)
Tales of SIG should be considered a completed comic as future installments will be under their own titles.
Thanks for including the others. We should see Interstellar Battle Girls wrapped up later this year or early next year.

bravo1102 wrote:
There are a few honorable mentions in Belle's Best the Films of Belinda Brandon such as “Space Thrall” and “GOOB”. I'll have to go through and do the links when I get home from Europe. (I'm on unsecured hotel wifi right now)

No sweat. It's a long-term project, and I'll keep it in mind. I might go and look for the links myself when I've got some more time to spare - it's the enjoyable part of cataloging. ;)

Tales of SIG should be considered a completed comic as future installments will be under their own titles.

Righty-o! It's on the list now.

Thanks for including the others. We should see Interstellar Battle Girls wrapped up later this year or early next year.

You're welcome. I made a waiting-loop entry in the honourable mentions btw..

Stats update:
I found a few more in the meantime, so the main list has passed the 200-entries mark now.