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I'm not well versed in comic book publishing and series-ing, but it depends on whether we think of comic releases more like books in a series or more like manga chapters. Compare Literature.The Hunger Games, where each book is broken into separate pages despite the entire series following an overarching narrative. If comic book runs are similar, then it's fine for there to be two separate work pages (though I wish the titles were more differentiable).
But you can also compare the manga publishing industry, in which chapters are published weekly in magazines and later collected into volumes for publishing. Even when there are clearly marked separate story arcs within the story, we don't typically separate them out by volume or story arc. If these comic runs are more like that, then I agree they should be merged.
Edited by amathieu13
The first issue of the newer series picks up immediately after the end of the previous one.
By now, it should be clear to all except the most dense of us that sheep are secretly conspiring to kill us all and steal our pants.
It's a Sequel Series and Marvel opted to (slightly) change the title and restart the numbering, rather than continuing the 2022 series, so I created a new page for it.
(Marvel also directly call it
a "sequel series")
We're a little inconsistent on this for comics, but recently we've been following the publisher's lead - if they treat it as a separate series for publishing, and split it out when listed on websites, in digital comics portals etc., we've been doing the same.
There's a specific Marvel cleanup and maintenance thread (fairly quiet) on the forums, which might be a good place to raise this.
On differentiating the titles - that question was asked on the disambig thread a while back, and the steer was that 'The' is sufficient.
Just following the publisher's lead seems like an incredibly bad idea considering Marvel's history of compulsively re-launching titles just to goose their physical sales numbers. The two series are basically the same, the only difference is that one has a "the" added to the title. That seems insufficient to justify creating a separate page.
Edited by StrixObscuro By now, it should be clear to all except the most dense of us that sheep are secretly conspiring to kill us all and steal our pants.
I discovered that we have two different pages for Marvel's X-Cellent series - X-Cellent and The X-Cellent (2023). Is it really necessary to have two different work pages, considering that one is just a continuation of the other?