So I've been thinking about this Spider-Man idea I've got (Patreon)

And I think I actually have enough for quite a few story arcs, maybe even an ongoing series. I could see it going through high school, through college, into Peter joining the workforce, maybe on indefinitely. A coming-of-age story that actually makes "Peter Parker in high school" and "Peter Parker in the Avengers" feel of a piece, because they're actually the same character who has grown and developed.

The big thing for me--if this were a series of TPBs or one-shots or miniseries, just every year, then you could have some version of real time passing. That's how it went in the comics back in the Dikto days, each issue was just what happened on any given month. And if there were gaps, then it would be easy to do time-skips. Like, I want to do a version of all the times Peter and MJ's relationship was on-again, off-again, while still keeping the focus on her as a central character, so you can just say... end of one story, she leaves, skip ahead a few months, beginning of another story, she's back.

Ongoing monthly, I'm not sure that works. The compromise I came up with is that we follow her as she has non-Spidey adventures, like being the secretary for the Heroes for Hire--one of those 'Jean Grey and Colleen Wing are roommates' things of the early Marvel Universe. 

But that still leaves the matter of having a six issue story arc that covers one night or one week, and then having to skip ahead to keep things in real time. I mean, it's easy when one issue is one story, but how do you say that issue 5 takes place two minutes after issue 4, but issue 7 takes place six months after issue 6? How does Savage Dragon handle it? How do you effectively convey time passing without having it be arbitrary?