Regarding: Beef #7: The Longest Journey
This one bothered me so I contacted the authors on twitter. Here was the response.
From WolfGang Bauer (@monkeyking): I think it's just that there's no road to the well. Easier to gather stuff centrally and go from there.
From Steve Winter...
For what it's worth, I had a roughly 50 page chunk falling out. I was able to repair it with a thin line of gorilla glue. It's been about a month now and it's not showing any sign of further problems yet.