Longest story arc...

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:26 am

I've just finished my longest story ever. 102 pages. 8 months.

Obviously, I was insane.

What's YOUR longest story arc?---Al

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:33 am

Well, i've broken the 9 month line...i expect it to take 1-2 years.

...but I'm insane.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:53 am

22 strips, I think. Just over seven weeks. A minnow compared to you lot.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 8:57 am

Well, LWK is more or less one story arc interwoven with a few less important.
In other words, year and a half, 150 comics and going.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:01 am

Story arc? Never heard the word.

Really, my comic seems to be turning into one long story arc from beginning to end. I think it reads more like a novel than a comic book series.

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 9:05 am

Honestly, I don't know. I think I've had some month long story arcs. I don't do arcs so much as I do themes, and said themes can last anywhere from a week to several months.

Fading Aura · Post by **Fading Aura** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:03 am

My longest storyarc started in October and is still going . . . so, in about four and three quarters months, I've covered four acts out of thirteen in 95 comics. It'll probably end sometime in 2007 - sooner if I can help it.

Blackaby · Post by **Blackaby** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:24 am

Uh. Like I think we did 21 pages once. :|

We don't do big stories.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:42 am

I forget. It was 70 some pages I think. It was orginally going to be 10, but I felt it needed to keep going. My current one may be over 100.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:54 am

Page-wise, mine haven't tended to be over 20 pages. If you go by real-time, it'd be my current arc but that's because I keep taking month-long hiatuses.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:05 am

It's a tie between the intro of all the main characters except Kat and the Kat introduction arc, both of which span eight comics each. The current storyarc, RotD Con, will be a bit longer than that, however, by the time it's all done up.

RotD isn't big on continuity.

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:11 am

Depends on your definition of "story arc". I'm going on two and a half years and my characters are still in the same day.

If you're a purist, I've gone about a month or so focusing on the same characters.

Ida · Post by **Ida** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:14 am

Comic-wise: 2nd chapter, 27 pages. (a whoppin' one more than chaper 1...)

Timewise: Current one, started in September and still 14 pages from teh end.

Tim · Post by **Tim** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:37 am

Still in the middle of mine, spanning back to last May - so about 10 months. With a couple of minor hiatusesuses (hiatii?) thrown in. Still looking to go on for another couple months, at least. (maybe even longer unless I can start writing again, d'oh >_<)

RemusShepherd · Post by **RemusShepherd** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 11:54 am

Hooli's story, chapter 7, is going to run about 3-4 months, so about 30 pages all told. That's going to be about the same size as Nick's story. One of those is my longest so far. I don't like going much longer than that.

The next chapter (chapter 8) is short. I'm worried about chapter 9, though. It could be very long and if I'm not careful, boring. I need to do something about it.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:29 pm

18-20 pages I believe. I think it was the question on bombs.

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:56 pm

rkolter wrote:18-20 pages I believe. I think it was the question on bombs.

TERRORIST!

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 1:03 pm

TdotOdot2k wrote:
rkolter wrote:18-20 pages I believe. I think it was the question on bombs.
TERRORIST!

No no. He specifically omitted anything that could be useful in building a bomb. He just linked sites that were...

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 2:01 pm

Part Four got somewhat out of control at a personal record of about forty-seven pages.

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:24 pm

Well, Jim already answered it for RotD, but for Distant Eras all I have written is the prologue. I thought it was going to be about three strips, but it turned out to be 12 or 13. If I stay with the planned once-a-week update schedule, it'll be about three months long.

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