Forum:CT Archive/Comic consistency

Currently, our inclusion of comics within appearance lists is extremely haphazard. Newer comics are generally added issue-by-issue, as they're coming out. Older comics, however, are generally listed only by arc, such that we might have an article that has appearances in Jedi Academy: Leviathan and Star Wars Invasion 1: Refugees, Part 1, Star Wars Invasion 2: Refugees, Part 2, and so on. There's no consistency. So, I propose we get consistent.

There are two angles to go with this. One is to systematize in favor of issues. So we go back, and take that Jedi Academy: Leviathan appearance, and we break it down into issues. The argument in favor of this is that it's more precise. The argument against it is that very few people have access to old stuff in issue form, so it will be difficult to verify for some stuff which issues things and people are actually appearing in. It will also be an assload of work to have to go back and check everything. Also, it could lead to some long, long appearance lists. Something like Quinlan Vos would be extremely unwieldy.

The other way is to systematize in favor of arcs. So, we condense those Invasion appearances into just Star Wars: Invasion: Refugees. The argument for this is that it's simple, it's clear, it takes up much less space, and it's the way the comics are presented for posterity anyway in the trades. It also matches the way comics tend to be cited; by arc, not by issue (unless it's a case where we've put only one issue in the Appearances list). The argument against is that it's not as precise. Havac 04:07, April 21, 2010 (UTC)

List comic appearances by arc

 * 1) I'm strongly in favor of listing by arc, since issues are written for the arc, for the trade, and subdividing them into the individual pieces of an arc as they come out makes no more sense than breaking up Emissary of the Void into the chunks it was serialized in. Havac 04:07, April 21, 2010 (UTC)