Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Catch up
Catch up verb - To catch or hold as if in a net.
Both terms in one sentence
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Interestingly, some of the others are subverted - multiple times, especially in 64, you have to boost to catch up to enemies, or brake to avoid them.
Source: Improbable Piloting Skills -
It's actually a very clever way to avoid having the calendar catch up to the comic; without a frame of reference, Transmetropolitan can always take place in The Future.
Source: Comic Book / Transmetropolitan -
Because of this, there is a long delay in the production of the 2nd anime to allow for story developments to catch up and to avoid this happening to such an extent.
Source: Overtook the Manga
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