Alright, we had a long talk yesterday that continued offline between Will and me and here's the general idea we came up with.
We end Issue 1 and get that wrapped up while prepping Issue 2. While that downtime is going on I will see about putting up a recruitment post on FO as well as here: http://rpg-directory.com/forum-52.html
Hopefully that will bring in at least a small amount of people,which should help with making things more active so we don't go into lockdown the moment one or two people get busy/distracted/etc.
If/when we get some new people we'll kick things off relatively fast with Issue 2 so people will have something to do right away. Going forward we're going to try and have Issues planned out better and more in advance so we'll have them ready to go faster and to avoid having them stall out by having all the mods aware of the general outline more.
If anyone has any additional thoughts on this, please put them here. Thank you!