User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25117610-20160904150521/@comment-188432-20161111203832

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-25117610-20160904150521/@comment-188432-20161111203832 Not really, guys. Every single one of these things has always said, "end of Chapter X". They've always been called chapters by the original publisher. We can't contort the English language so much that chapter means story. And I push back hard on the notion that the individual chapters fail to make up a coherent, single story. It is very often the case in prose that if you lift out a single chapter from a book that it will appear to be unrelated to the greater narrative. But by the time you get to the end of the book, it's very clear how it's all related. And that's the case here.

More to the point, later chapters more directly lead in to the ones that follow. It's illogical to regard later chapters differently from earlier ones -- to make, as one poster above suggested, an "except for chapters 11 and 12" rule.

Again, from the perspective of the main villain(s) of the piece, this is all one story. And the comic's producers have always portrayed it so by calling each issue a "chapter". Marketing speak on the back jacket does not trump what is actually on the inside of the book -- any more than opinions expressed in Doctor Who Confidential can affect our in-universe understanding of a TV story.