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openLinks to unlicensed scans and translations Print Comic
ComicBook.Cybersix links to ebooks of the original comics, and an English fan translation of them. I'm quite sure that the fan translation should not be linked, but I'd like to ask about the link to ebookee.org. My browser thinks it a suspicious website, so I'm inclined to remove it too, but I'm wondering if they are in fact unlicensed.
openDoctor Fate Print Comic
I was just at YMMV.Doctor Fate, and I noticed Dork Age and Audience-Alienating Era are listed in two separate entries, but they're supposed to be the same exact trope due to Renamed Tropes. What should be done about this?
openEdit War - ComicBook.RedGoblin Print Comic
Possibly confusion on both sides for this one, but it's turned into an edit war.
- Nonentity Z added
a second bullet to Mythology Gag on 16th July.
- I deleted it
today, partly because I didn't fully understand the point they were trying to make
- NonentityZ added it back
today, with an edit reason saying it was a valid example.
There may be a question to be answered about whether a reference to a Marvel Alternate Universe is really a Continuity Nod or a Mythology Gag (when it's acknowledged as part of continuity and characters can travel to/from it for Bat Family Crossovers, I personally think it's a Continuity Nod), but that shouldn't be an edit reason argument.
Edit: link fix
Edited by Mrph1openCan Memetic Loser apply to creators? Print Comic
So I'm waffling on an edit I recently made that I realize might not be the right place for it. Nick Lowe, current editor-in-chief on all Spider-Man projects, has a reputation for just refusing to let Peter be happy in any capacity, to the point where I've seen a couple of Reddit threads joking that Lowe has a thing for NTR (anime fan term for Cuckolding) with the sheer amount of chaos that's been injected into Spider-Man's romantic life over the last few years, on top of some people disliking him dodging questions about a character getting Stuffed Into A Fridge at a comic convention. I don't see anything that says Memetic Loser can't apply to creators, and a couple of pages use it for the fandom, but I want to double-check.
openShould the All-New Venom Character Page Folder be made Spoilers Off? Print Comic
As people have continued to add the host's identity (Mary Jane Watson) to the Characters/VenomMainHosts page in spoiler tags outside the trope list, which goes against TV Tropes' editing rules, should the folder be made spoilers off (given it's going to be a Late-Arrival Spoiler in the comics going forward) and/or its contents migrated to the host's main page?
resolved Somebody likely accidentally written something on Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things page Print Comic
See the title. Somebody likely accidentally written this on the Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things page, which it probably didn't fit this page and likely copied from another page:
In the 1960s and 70s, the Smurfs' explosive popularity brought Peyo international fame, but it also came at a cost. Fans in Belgium who cherished his earlier works, such as Johan and Peewit and Benny Breakiron, were disheartened when Peyo revealed that the overwhelming demand for Smurf stories left him unable to focus on his other series. While the Smurfs became a cultural phenomenon, the spotlight overshadowed his more grounded, adventurous, and nuanced tales. Many fans of Johan and Peewit lament that their favorite medieval duo only received sporadic attention after the Smurfs took center stage, with no resolution to their many unfinished storylines. It’s a classic case of one breakout success consuming the creative space needed to nurture other beloved projects.
Can somebody have an opinion on this and think that this should be removed from the page? Or fix it and kept it on the page intact?
Edited by RetiredBookopenRemoving Duplicate Images? Print Comic
I searched the Image List for images that I uploaded, and discovered a couple of cases where I accidentally uploaded the same image more than once. Is there a way to cutlist the duplicate images?
openDC Infinite Frontier Print Comic
DC Infinite Frontier already has a YMMV page available, but I must question the validity and necessity for it in the first place, for the same reason I complained about the YMMV page of DC Future State. For now, the only entry is:
- Author's Saving Throw: Though not the entire point, it seems many of the creative decisions being pushed forward are in an attempt to undo or pave over the legacy of New 52 and the Dan DiDio era of DC. Among them, Wally West is taking primary focus in the Flash book after years of being a Creator's Pest, pre-Flashpoint continuity and history seems to have been restored, the Justice Society is back, the universe is tonally much more brighter with more focus on the building towards the future, and the legacies that have built around tentpole characters are being embraced. Essentially, there's a DC Rebirth like quality to the hype, except this time, the people behind-the-scenes responsible for New 52 are gone, so there's less chance for back-sliding.
The event hasn't even premiered yet, so we don't even know how is this trope gonna apply or even if it will apply at all. What should we do?
Edited by MasterHeroresolved Do self-demonstrating pages get Laconics? Print Comic
Laconic.The Joker is a laconic for SelfDemonstrating.The Joker. Is this allowed?
resolved Shared universe characters - splitting character pages? Print Comic
Just double-checking if there's an agreed best practice on this sort of thing.
Viv Vision is a character in the shared Marvel Universe. She originally appeared in the Vision comics, then went on to become a member of the Champions team and is about to be the lead of her own solo webcomic story (part of a larger anthology comic).
These are all in the same continuity - and she's acknowledged as the same version of the character in all of them. That being the case, I’m used to seeing a single Character page, which may be linked from multiple places (e.g. several different Comic Book and Webcomic pages).
But, instead, this one's been set up so that it's split across two locations - for character tropes from her debut series, see The Vision (2015), but for the Champions team book she's here - Champions (Marvel Comics).
Each Character page links to the other.
Would I be right in thinking we'd normally combine them? The webcomic doesn't start until next week, but I don't think we'd really want a (hypothetical) third character page for that, would we?
Thanks!
Edited by Mrph1openBrian Michael Bendis' Superman = Audience-Alienating Era Print Comic
Okay, I gotta ask: is Superman (Brian Michael Bendis) truly an Audience-Alienating Era? The entry reads
:
"While not universally hated, Superman (Brian Michael Bendis) is widely disliked by many Superman fans for a variety of reasons, with many seeing it as the biggest example of DC's poor creative direction around the end of The New '10s. The run was already met with immense scepticism before it debuted, owing to forcibly ending the beloved Peter J. Tomasi run on the book, and Bendis' extremely controversial reception, and this only compounded as the run progressed and Bendis' run became infamous for making widely divisive decisions which alienated long-time fans, most infamous among them being his decision to give Jon Kent a Plot-Relevant Age-Up (the backlash to Bendis would infamously mock fans for in both the book itself and on twitter) and have Clark publicly reveal himself as Superman, both of which were derided as spitting in the face of fans. Bendis' run also became known for its weak villains, with a large amount of time spent on Generic Doomsday Villain Rogal Zaar and the overlong, directionless "Leviathan" storyline which eventually petered out into an Aborted Arc despite continual promotion, as well as his well-known quirks such as meandering dialogue and scattershot approach to continuity and established mythology. All in all, despite the substantial push, Bendis' run would end unceremoniously after a little over two years and leaving Phillip Kennedy Johnson to pick up the pieces."
First of, the entry kinda shoots itself in the foot several times by stating that the Bendis era isn't as hated as much as it is divisive.
Secondly, websites and reviewers like Superman Homepage, Comic-Watch, Fortress of Solitude and DC Comics News have positive reviews for the issues directly written by Bendis so there's support for Bendis' comics.
Third, the general consensus for the Bendis era is that "good concepts with bad execution, Superman as a character has a pretty good portrayal but the villains are mediocre", so I sincerely don't know whether the people who hate this run are either a vocal minority or a very sizeable crowd.
Fourth, last time I checked, Audience-Alienating Era applies when
1. the run is a critical and financial disappointment
2. any changes caused by this run are reverted by later stories
3. any time this story is referenced to, it's done in a negative and mocking manner.
So, what do you say?
By the way, I already asked this at Is this an example?
to get a proper consensus?
openWhat happened to the mouse... or the example Print Comic
In What Happened To The Mouse, there was an example from Elf Quest. That example seems to have been deleted during a re-org to put the examples in alphabetical order. Was that deliberate or has it just been missed? I'm asking because I don't want to jam it back in there if there was a good reason for taking it out. Original text:
- In the ElfQuest - New Blood story "One Life One Lie", the insane elf, Door, uses his rock-shaping powers to trap a human servant boy in rock restraints and shapes a stone knife coming down from the ceiling which threatens to enter the boy's chest and kill him, all because the boy dropped a bowl of fruit. The last time we see the boy, he's still alive and then... nothing. We never see the boy again or hear anything of his fate.
openCustom WikiWord not displaying? (X-Men '92) Print Comic
Help!
I may be missing something really obvious here, but -
ComicBook.X Men 92 is displayed as X-Men '92 on its own works page.
But X-Men '92 isn't picking up that formatting when I link from other works pages. And looking at ‘referenced by’, this seems to he a wider issue for its other links.
Is it a known bug? Is there a workaround of any sort?
Thanks!
openLobo Self-Demonstrating Page Print Comic
Lobo is a thing, but Lobo isn't. Should the latter also be a thing, like we did for Deadpool?
openvalid deletion? Print Comic
Paul A removed this example from Sexually Transmitted Superpowers (plus a similar example from an adaptation):
- Played very darkly in The Sandman (1989): in "Dream Country," wealthy author Erasmus Fry reveals that he owes his superhuman inspiration to the fact that he was able to bind the muse Calliope to him. Though he knew that it was possible to gain inspiration by simply wooing Calliope, he found that simply locking her in a room and repeatedly raping her was effective enough to get ideas. Ultimately, Fry sells Calliope to Richard Madoc, an up-and-coming author in desperate need of inspiration; Madoc continues the use of the Muse as a Sex Slave, allowing him to become a Renaissance Man author capable of working in multiple genres and assuming perspectives that would normally be outside his abilities. Unfortunately for both Fry and Madoc, it's indicated that the inspiration gained from raping Calliope will not grant long-term success, leaving them wealthy but forgotten while authors who sought legitimate inspiration are cherished and remembered. However, before he can learn this, Madoc finds himself becoming a target of Calliope's ex-boyfriend, Dream.
Their argument in the edit reason is "Being inspired to write a novel is not a superpower".
Thing is, as I understand it that's kind of the whole point of the Muses: they're goddesses who literally represent the concept of artistic inspiration.
So, what do y'all think?
Edited by StarSwordopenEgo Print Comic
Does anyone know what character page has the comic version of Ego the Living Planet, I found the the MCU version but not the comic version?
openSandbox pages Print Comic
Are we allowed to change the images on sandbox pages without Image Pickin’?
I question this because I want to give Characters.Earth 2 Green Lantern Solomon Grundy (which is in a sandbox state despite the namespace the image, caption, and quote on ComicBook.Solomon Grundy, but I am hesitant about such rule-skirting.
Edited by GeneralGiganopenEdit warring Print Comic
The Swordsman edited the Venom: Main Hosts page so that Eddie Brock's folder listed Sleeper and Carnage as identities he's had. I removed them because these aren't names the character ever officially adopted — they're symbiotes he's worn, but that doesn't mean he takes on the name.
The Swordsman added them back without discussion, with an edit reason saying that doesn't matter, even though I'm fairly certain it does, since otherwise, anyone who's ever worn a symbiote with a name for even an issue gets the name (Eddie wore Sleeper for like two issues and it also once possessed a corpse).
Edited by FuzzyBarbarianopenConsidering making adaptation subpages Print Comic
I'm considering making Comic Book subpages for Animorphs and/or Wings of Fire that cover tropes exclusive to their graphic novel adaptations (as part of Scholastic's Graphix line), but I can't think of enough tropes for either. Is there a minimum number of tropes recommended for a work page?

I've seen a few pages with a second page quote at the very end, after the final " ---- ", most recently added to ComicBook.Immortal Hulk.
However, I can't seem to find anything via Administrivia, ATT or forum searches to say whether this is an accepted practice or something that shouldn't happen.
Do we have any guidance / precedents for this?
EDIT: subject line updated based on first reply
Edited by Mrph1