Hello and welcome back. Look out later today for the first ever January Issue of the PRL Serials!
The PRL Serials is a periodical. We believe in captivating stories told in the serial format, and we strive to tell stories in as many different art forms as are available to us.
Each year, we produce a volume of our periodical that consists of twelve issues. Since 2014, the first issue has debuted on June 16, which we refer to as PRL Day, and new issues appear on a loose weekly basis, about three issues monthly for four months. Since Volume I, we have also released the PRL Halloween Special that consists of three issues in October; in recent history, the Halloween Special has been replaced with the Day of the Dead and the Fèt Gede Specials.
Each issue of the PRL Serials features at least six ongoing serial stories that may appear in each of a volume’s issues. The run of a serial is dependent on the contributors and it is possible that a serial may not appear in each of a volume’s issues.
The Annual Issue is a stand-alone issue of the PRL Serials that debuts halfway through a volume and contains eight annual issues of serials that have appeared in the periodical at some point in its history; new serials have debuted in previous annual issues but it is rare.
We started the Interim Shorts early in Volume II as a way for the PRL Serials to produce stories when publication of the issues stalled. Interim Shorts are serial stories, sometimes continuations of existing serials, that run between issues of the volume. They can be described as limited series, usually consisting of three to five issues to tell a contained adventure.
The title of the volume is chosen to highlight a serial that appears in all twelve issues of the volume; it can be the name of the serial itself or any title that captures the essence of a serial or more than one if plotlines overlap. Crossover events occur in each volume, meaning the plot of at least two serials overlap.
Starting in 2026, issues of the PRL Serials will be released on a monthly schedule. This change in our release schedule corresponds with the production of the official PRL Serials print issue. Previously, issues of the PRL Serials were announced via blog post and linked to a shared Google Document that contained the stories. Since 2024, the PRL Serials website has published every issue of every serial ever produced for the periodical and this will continue even with the print issue.
Readers should look forward to the Annual Issue on PRL Day, June 16.
Interim Shorts in more recent years have been published in the months leading up to PRL day, but readers should look forward to Interim Shorts between monthly issues in the future.
There will be a total of four Special Issues produced each year with less content than volume issues. The Halloween Special will return with a single issue on Halloween day, October 31, and the newly christened Fèt Deads Special will debut a single issue on November 2. There will be two additional Special single issues each year, the Solstice Issue in early December and the Equinox Issue in early March.
We like art here at the PRL Serials, and we strive to tell stories in as many different art forms as are available to us. We have more at our disposal now than at the start. Please enjoy our stories, dear readers, and if it speaks to you, feel free to speak to us. Check us out on social media or send messages through the PRL Serials website.
Volume 6 marks the end of another PRL epic as the heroes of the Fonlands and the multiversal structure battle the reality devouring threat known as Une. It’s our second major culmination of everything that came before; I heartily recommend revisiting Volume IV – Sixth Dimension, it wraps up the first six volumes nicely and shows just how powerful Alia, the Hyperion truly is.
The action will be epic and you can expect it all year long. Get ready for an all new era of the PRL Serials, dear readers, as we present Meridian.
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