Jason Doty wrote:I've just purchased our reading assignment for the near future and it's pretty good.
To echo Jeph, thanks!
Jason Doty wrote:Looking through it, I'm making the assumption that "also" means that the issues occured at the same time as the bulk of the story.
Assuming it has been used as it is meant to be, also should be when the character appears in another issue between panels of his appearance in this issue. eg, while experiencing the events depicted in this issue, he also shows up in another title. During would mean another issue occurs on either side of his appearance here. eg, another issue entirely encompasses the events shown here, so that they happen during the events of the other issue
Jason Doty wrote:Just checking through the first issue's X-Men section thus far, I've noticed certain things did not make the cut:
X-Men: First Class Limited Series and Ongoing.
There is nothing in First Class which rules it out as potentially being in 616 continuity. However, at the moment there is no definitive evidence to say it definitely is 616 continuity either. As such, the decision has been taken not to reference FC for the time being.
So basically, don't take it to mean too much that it isn't referenced. If and when we get confirmation (by way of another, non-FC title back-referencing FC), then we will put a revision note in a later issue to cover how it all fits together.
Jason Doty wrote:Emma Frost Ongoing (I believe the original X-Men appeared on TV in one issue.)
X-Men Origins: Jean Grey and Beast (Though I understand why the Beast Issue is not Included)
Angel: Revalations Limited Series.
I'm waiting for confirmation, but I believe the original X-Men's TV appearance not being mentioned may be an accidental ommission. XO: Jean Grey is a mistake on our part; it should have been included, and we'll be printing errata in an upcoming issue to correct that. Annoying that it happened, especially in the first issue, but thanks for spotting it. I'm checking what the deal is for XO: Beast. Angel: Revelations is in continuity, and is referenced in the issues covering his origin back-up story (which will be in Index #2).
Jason Doty wrote:I'm very impressed with all the hard work put into it and glad the've even included some cross-overs.
Again thanks, glad you like it.
Don Campbell wrote:
Okay, I have to say that I'm very impressed with how much detail was presented in this first issue. I think that if I ever tried to compile such a mass of information my brain would explode/meltdown. So, congratulations to all involved.
Thanks, much appreciated.
Don Campbell wrote:However, I do have a couple of questions. First, how much lead time is involved in producing each issue? After all, it must take a lot of time to check and double-check each bit of data for each of the issues covered by the index.
At the moment we've not got a huge lead in time. We're proofing 2 for the printers now and 3 is due to be handed in very shortly. We are working on trying to get a bit further ahead of ourselves though.
Don Campbell wrote:Second, the first issue covered 57 Spider-Man comics, 35 Tales of Suspense, and 50 X-Men issues. Will future issues of the index be likely to cover as many comics per issue? More? Or less?
It's going to vary. On average we are looking at 3 entries a page, but some comics just need more than that. Titles like Tales of Suspense take up more space, because you have multiple stories in a single issue, and it's 3
entries per page, not issues per page. But, assuming we sell well enough to keep going, I could see the Index finishing with these initial three titles before the end of the year, and moving on to covering other titles.
Don Campbell wrote:Third, what criteria are used to determine which comics are covered? Is the Official Index going to cover ALL the issues of Amazing Spider-Man, Tales of Suspense and X-Men before moving onto other titles? Or will all comics in a particular time period (like, say, 1963 through 1973) be catalogued first before comics in later time periods are covered?
The former, pretty much, though there may be the odd exception. Annuals obviously fit in their respective slots between regular issues, but we will include Giant Size issues that way as well.
Don Campbell wrote:Lastly, I noticed that Adventures of Captain America was listed in the notes section of the Tales of Suspense #63. Wasn't that a mini-series that was retroactively declared non-canon/out-of-continuity? If so, why is it listed?
As Sean Curtin noted, back referencing has confirmed that Adventures of CA is in continuity, although not everything necessarily occured exactly as depicted.