Trope: Comic Book Run
Laconic: none
Wicks: 19 as of August 19, 2023
Wick check: 100% of wicks + all on-page examples
Wicks:
- Comic-Book Limbo: Intro ref, "This is a frequent thing to happen when a Comic Book Run ends and a new one takes the helm of the comic. The new author may not like one of the current characters, or have plot ideas that have no room for him, so they simply cease writing about them." (Valid)
- Comic Book Tropes: Listed as "The period when an author has been working on a given comic"(valid, could be more specific)
- Creator Cameo: Intro ref, "Many comics will have either their original creators or the artists of the current Comic Book Run drawn in as background characters" (valid, perhaps shouldn't be artist-specific)
- Creators: Listed as "Period when a specific author worked on a comic book." (Valid)
- Crisis Crossover: Intro ref, "But what about the event that kickstarts it all? It may simply take place in the first issue, it may be expanded in a dedicated one-shot (with titles such as "Crisis Alpha", "the road to Crisis", "Prelude to Crisis", etc), or even have been brewing for quite some time already in a previous Comic Book Run elsewhere by the author." (Valid)
- Long-Runners: Intro ref. Bulleted subtrope, no definition text (Valid)
- Writing for the Trade: Intro ref. "By the early-to-mid 00s, virtually every halfway-popular Comic Book Run published by DC Comics or Marvel Comics—the "big two" companies in the industry—would get a shot at getting collected in a TPB." (Valid, but vague)
- Champions (2016): Intro ref. "This Comic Book Run introduced the Champions with some of the most popular younger heroes of the Marvel Universe". Champions ran 2016-2020. (Not a long runner)
- Fantastic Four (2018): intro ref. "Fantastic Four is a Marvel Comics Comic Book Run launched in 2018 during the Marvel: A Fresh Start initiative". Questionable. FF as a whole is a long runner, but this was a relaunch (treated as a new work), not a run within a longer work. (Grey area - series=run)
- The Avengers (Jason Aaron): "After the weekly Avengers: No Surrender event, Marvel relaunched The Avengers into their eighth volume, a Comic Book Run written by Jason Aaron." Avengers as a whole is a long runner, but this was a relaunch (treated as a new work), not a run within a longer work. (Grey area - series=run)
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