Continuing narrative cycles
SPACE FLYING TIGER
Vacío Arpista’s career: five numbered installments plus later explicitly labeled interludes/continuations. Training, masks, territories, botches, Japan, Canada, hotel violence and posthumous fan memory.
PAGODA BENZ
Pagoda Benz, the Rat, the Cut-Out, Egglestone and a “Distended Universe” that explicitly absorbs Scaled Alps.
NULL⁰ / Guy Stole My Dog
NULL0, Rusty, EOS and One Big City: an open 1.1 chassis whose social orders are combat, fashion and dog breeding.
MY TRAIN WILL COME
A hidden two-part lottery narrative split across otherwise unrelated publications.
King Baggot / Pseudobaggot
Real silent-film history mutates into false memory, fake media, Baggot Brain and a Hollywood underworld continuation.
Suna Ralos / Cat of Creases
An earlier attributed tale is explicitly fed into a later retelling/visual apparatus.
Large worlds contained inside single works
Some stories do not need sequels because a single publication already behaves like a small city. Their cast maps preserve social information that a thematic synopsis destroys:
- FutureSport 90-90
- Richard
- RETIRE HER
- INTERIOR HORRORFILM
- TERMINAL
- OTHERWORLD AESTHETICS
- Slain Hero
- I Drank What?
- Sketches of San Lucero
- ɘPISODI / Licking County
Geographic continuity
Lost Eros / Narrative Ecology tracks stories that share a civic field without pretending their casts have met. San Lucero operates similarly as a nearby social world.
Persona worlds
Cagliostro, Proteus III, REPTILE and Professor Sun A. Ra Los are unstable by design: music credit, fictional identity, attributed author, institution and joke can occupy the same name.
Small names that make the world bigger
Café Goblin and Plagiarist Pages demonstrate another continuity scale: a publication or event name can recur only twice and still make the corpus feel inhabited rather than freshly invented at every page.
For people, use the Cast Register. For exact source relationships, use the Continuity Ledger. For numbered and disguised serial structures, use Series & Continuities.