that a piece conceived as a single work can have. Serialised fiction (comic or otherwise) has its own constraints, its own rhythm, a need to present a series of mini-stories amongst the big one. Go read Watchmen - seriously, there should a drinking game for every time an article on comics says that - and see how the story is cleanly segmented in each chapter so that each issue of its original run is thematically complete, yet contributing to the entire narrative arc and th