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Sidebar: People sometimes struggle with the concept of time in comic books. There are those, after all, who insist these characters experience time in the same way we do, ignoring the fact that they are totally fictional and do not actually experience time AT ALL.This "series" is really going to tax some of those people. This "first issue" takes place in a matter of hours, and the tales that follow are less than a day or so each. But they are, of course, stretched out by the page-a-day serialization. I was working on what may be the tenth issue yesterday (I tend to jump around, stitching the pieces together later), and found myself realizing that from the time on the Moon to the pages presently on the board is barely a month for the characters. And this is complicated by the "folded time" approach I'm using, where "Not quite meanwhile…" or some variant gets a lot of use. Bottom line, no matter how long this goes on for, you're not going to see any real passage of time. I'm not even paying attention to the seasons!
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