All right, so after taking that poll a couple of weeks ago and realizing that more people who care enough to answer the poll would prefer Redemption to be updated on a regular schedule than not, and then also realizing that I still don't want to hold myself to a regular updating schedule, I've come up with a solution that I think will make both of us happy.
Instead of posting Redemption one page at a time, I'm going to try posting it in "scenes." Not chapters; those are long. I consider a "scene" to be a group of pages that, when read together, describe a complete thing that happens without leaving the reader off in an awkward, unfinished place. It's a thing that happens before the next thing happens.
I did this when I started uploading Redemption to webcomic groups because I didn't want to inundate group watchers with all 50+ pages of my story at once. So I uploaded then on separate days, in clusters like this: cover–6, 7–13, 14–24, 25–35, 36–43, 44–current. If you care enough to go and look to see how that lines up with the content, you'll see it spans small scenes and that the breaks occur where small breaks occur in the story. It's not an even grouping of numbers and I have no intentions of trying to force it to be, but it usually ends up being somewhere between 7–15 pages at a time. (Although, where scenes were very small, like only 3 pages or so, I uploaded them together with other scenes.)
This is how I am going to experiment with uploading Redemption after I finish the current scene. Which means that after the next page, you won't see any updates for a while.
However, I believe this will be more comfortable for the way that we read comics—or, at least, the way I read comics. I hate when a story leaves off at an awkward part, or sitting down to catch up on a story only to realize there isn't a whole lot of new content for me to catch up on. So with the web comics I follow, I'll usually let many pages pile up before I devote some time to reading and getting caught up. Comics are slow going, and no one wants to sit around watching paint dry.
So, in a month or two, after no Redemption updates, you'll see several pages in your inbox at once.
This works for you because I'll be doing the work of guiding you to a good place to put your metaphorical bookmark in it and come back to it later, and this works for me because I will have more flexibility in how long it takes me to do individual pages. Sometimes I just feel like doing other things. Like hanging out with friends, or directing my creative energy into written fanfiction instead of drawing. (I'm currently working on a dark LucreciaXHojo one shot.) Or, god forbid, working on my actual portfolio. Either way, I need to have the freedom of not working on Redemption every day.
I'm aiming for the time between postings to be 1–3 months, judging by how fast I currently complete pages and how many pages have been in each scene so far. The amount of time will depend on the length of a scene—which will not be regulated—and my levels of motivation at that time—which will also not be regulated.
What do you think? Wait longer for new content, but get multiple pages at once when it arrives? Please tell me in the comments how this idea sounds to you!