I started Maxiboy in 2014, when I was writing a lot of cool (to me, of course) projects. As all those projects went nowhere and life started spiraling down, my will to create basically anything died. Maxiboy was the final nail in the coffin at the time because it was the only project that was being drawn at all and then my friend gave up after drawing 11 strips. I had written 19 at the time and I just let go.
Come 2017 my friend decides that he now wants to do it for real so we're back in business, baby. I hadn't written anything for real for like 6 months at that point so we come back slowly and here we are.
So yeah, when I finally started posting the strip, November 2017, I was posting the stuff I wrote 3 years before. It was painful to letter it. It was painful to read.
But, the way I see it, so is the nature of series. You grow up, you find your landing. Most series to me have weird stuff at the beginning. Remember Marie's kleptomania in Breaking Bad? Boy, that plot point sure went nowhere! TV Tropes has the Early Instalment Weirdness page with dozens of examples.
Yeah, it's different because it's a TV show. They can't simply rerecord the pilot five seasons in. But still, series are about evolution. Evolution of the artist, evolution of the concept. That's how I tend to see it.
This and I always think that the person that wrote that weirdly structured stories was a different person than I am today. Unless it's crazy terrible, I tend to not tweak it too much. Of course, there has to be a standard, but still...
Also, There Was a War is, I bet, faaaar from the last story you're going to create. And yeah, it's good to go back and make the story the better you can (though when you finish redoing it, I bet you might want to redo it again!), but you can also apply what you learn in the next big thing!
It may be the more arc oriented and zaniness of the superhero genre, but I also tend to see weird early mistakes as an opportunity to create. For example: in my second story arc, Maxiboy has to collect a chain of bombs before they blow up a bunch of schools. The problem: this is going on in a reeeally small town that should have two schools tops, maybe only one! To make matters worse, my partner drew FOUR SCHOOLS IN THE SAME CITY BLOCK! What the heck??
So now my small town has a really weird backstory involving rival principals creating a small town centered on unnecessarily large schools for kids of the region.
Embrace chaos!!
TL;DR: I deal with it by letting it be. Also, get weird with your mistakes!!
''My man, you might want to start taking the idea of writing comics seriously a tad earlier and like, I don't know, fucking start writing... now!''