"Who Can Stand These Waits??" or "Ongoing Sequential Arts" or "Virtue Rewarded" or "W

[Lumenskir]

So, I'm not usually a big comic reader, at least when it comes to actual ink-and-paper deal. I like to think that I'm reasonably comic-literate, in that I can keep up with conversations about the major touchstones of the genre, but most of the time if I read a comic it's at least a year after the last issue has been released and bound up into a collected/finished work.

This was a great arrangement for a while, and then I made a mistake: I read a few great comics that aren't 'done' yet.

The first is The Manhattan Projects, which basically and magnificently boils down to "Science. Bad." It imagines a world where all of the greatest scientific minds of the WWII era are, in addition to being super geniuses, either completely insane, inhuman, gleefully evil, or all of the above and also cannibalistic. And on top of the cast, you've got a version of a world running on SCIENCE! that's like the evil mirror of the Atomic Robo world (in that the things being accomplished are amazing, but I can't see the teleporters in Robo being powered by the suicide energies of Death Buddhists). Minor spoiler, but in the most recent issue the American super geniuses just hooked up with the Russian (and captured Nazi) super geniuses to take on an entire galaxy of Earth-hating aliens (who hate us for very good reasons), and apparently all of the super geniuses are now about to be targeted by the Free Masons (which sounds like it shouldn't be as scary as the aliens/their current allies, but "the people who control the money" are freaking out Albrecht Einstein so it sounds like they mean bad/awesome news), and the little author blurb in the back makes it sounds like the actual craziness is about to kick into high gear.

The other comic is Saga, which is just Romeo & Juliet & Star Wars. Two alien species engaged in an eternal vendetta war, couple from opposite sides fall in love, they have a half-breed baby and now both sidez + bounty hunters + robots with TV heads are after them, forcing them to careen across the galaxy picking up hangers on and allies where they can. The art is gorgeous and the writing is fun.

Now, those are great comics, but the wait time between issues for each series is like 6 weeks to 2 months each. I'm hard wired for TV wait times, so anything more than a week is basically torture. How do you people manage it? And what, if anything, are you reading that's worth it?

[Aldurin]

I have enough daily and weekly-updated comics on my RSS so that I'm kept sane, anything that goes for longer is a present surprise (except for Claymore which insists on being exactly monthly so I can't ignore it and be gifted with a random update). Try following VGCats or Captain SNES, who have basically made not-updating in-style so hard that it went out of style and they started updating again, until they slow down.

Or every Order of the Stick reader who's in agony because the author injured his hand and says there probably won't be updates until 2013.