FAQ:Schedule
From Wotchipedia
This answers questions about how the comic pages are organized and when it appears. There's not much information here, but it's important stuff!
- How is this comic organized?
The comic is one continuous story from beginning to end, broken down into story arcs of about 30 pages each. The story arcs (also occasionally called issues, for parity with printed comics) are grouped into seasons of about nine story arcs per season. Occasionally, filler pages may appear; these are not part of the main story (non-canon), and they are not counted as a part of the arc or season in which they appear.
- When do new comics get posted?
Midnight, Eastern Daylight Time. (This is the same as 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, or 03:00 Universal Coordinated Time. Robin lives in Arizona, so the comic ignores the switch between daylight and standard time.) As for the exact days that new comics will be posted, these will vary: Check the top of the main page to find out which days new comics are being posted. (We try for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, but it can vary; and the main page will always be the official source of our schedule.
- What's an arc?
Although it's one story from beginning to end, the larger story is broken into a sequence of contiguous independent short stories, each building on the previous short story; each one of these short stories is called an "arc". Each story contains about 30 comic pages, on average, although some are much shorter (as few as 11) and some are much longer (as many as 50).
- What's a season?
The story arcs are grouped together in seasons, which are sets of approximately nine arcs. The term appeared first in the forums when there was a long gap of no comics after the ninth arc, and Anne liked it so much that she began to use it.
- What's the difference between a "One-Shot" comic and a "Filler" comic?
One-shot comics are only one page and are not part of an arc, but they are part of the official storyline: They are "canon". Filler comics, no matter how long they are (like the 30-part Krazy-Glue filler), no matter how official they seem, are not canon: They occur outside the real storyline and do not affect it in any way.
- There have been big gaps of several months in the past. Will these happen again?
We hope not. The Wotch is officially Anne's paying job, so she has every incentive ot make sure that new comics get posted as fast as she can draw them. Gaps only happen when major life events prevent Anne or Robin from working on the comic: For example, the most recent gap happened when Anne got divorced, and (thankfully) that doesn't happen very often.
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