Single Page Format For Front Page Post

I have a site that is hosting a webcomic. The ideal setup is that the webcomic entries are displayed on their own on the front page, with all bloggy type pages accessible through the sidebar.

I’ve set up a category specific single.php for the comic pages in order to utilize the next_post_link() and previous_post_link() tags. That way, once a reader has navigated to single comic post, they can navigate through them chronologically through standard forward and back buttons.

I’ve got the main page setup to display the most current post from the comic category (which you can see here https://www.parallaxcity.com). This is being done with a query_posts() tag calling for only this category and for the display of one post only.

Does anyone know of a way to tweak this so that it displays the post from the post level, and not from the overview list level? I can’t come up with a way to make the navigation work otherwise. I have found this thread, but am, unfortunately, unable to comprehend how I could apply it to this situation.

Thanks in advance for any help!