I forgot the exact reason I gave in my attempt at a full re-read. But the writing in then felt a bit too systematic. I saw them as a bit of a reoccurring tangent from the main story that some elements stuck in longer than others.
I remember during my original reading, as the comic was being written a few pages a week. Much of the trollian arcs wishing that things could just go back to the core cast and that the character pool was getting oversaturated too fast.
But I was young and busy in those days so to be fair I was probably "speed reading" a lot of it as things become more and more text heavy.