I would say that's hard to imagine, were it not that I experienced something very similar in comics - Jack Kirby, Hayao Miyazaki, Giscinny-Uderzo, the brief period of Chris Claremont's brilliance, Alan Moore. And, outside comics, with Springsteen. One X-Men fan long ago put it very well: "Do you mean that I have to wait two million fiven hundred and ninety-two thousand seconds till the next issue? Double argh."
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