THE MCP NEEDS YOUR HELP!
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 2:58 am
We’re in the process of cleaning up the MCP’s listings, but it’s a big project and we need your help to finish it off.
Sometimes, a story or flashback happens between pages of a comic. When that happens it should look like this in our chronology listings:
SPIDER-MAN/PETER BENJAMIN PARKER
…
KOP2 6
ASM 256 (1 - 14)
VSS 1/2-FB
ASM 256 (15 - 22)
ASM 257
…
Unfortunately, we haven’t always been doing this, so we have some older entries that look like this:
SPIDER-MAN/PETER BENJAMIN PARKER
…
PPTSS 105
PPTSS 106
COH 4
PPTSS 106
SWII 2
…
Or, there are multiple flashbacks in an issue that should look like this:
LIZARD/DR. CURTIS CONNORS
…
ASM 313-FB
PPTSS 238 (6:5)-FB
{ASM 6 (10:2 - 11:1)-FB}
PPTSS 238 (7)-FB
ASM 6 (11:2 -11:5)-FB
ASM 6
…
But sometimes, they look like this:
LIZARD/DR. CURTIS CONNORS
…
ASM 166
PPTSS 33-FB
M/TU 66-BTS
M/TU 68-BTS
ASM 173-BTS
PPTSS 33-FB
PPTSS 32-FB
…
What we need is a quick description of where the break in the comic is and why the other story (or flashback) fits there. You might come across errors in the chronologies, where there shouldn’t be a split in the comic at all. Good! Point this out, because we want to clean these up as well.
As you’re poking around the chronologies you may come across time travel/time displacement stories. An example of this is the Fantastic Four Wedding Special; Reed and Sue appear over several points in their lives in this one issue, so it’s listed at several different points in their chronologies. These have been left off the list, but if you find a time travel story on this list, point it out and we’ll remove it.
The format is (page:panel) So page 3, panel 2 would look like (3:2) Page 3, panel 2 through page 6, panel 5 would look like (3:2 - 6:5)
Here’s an example of what we’re looking for.
Feel free to use the search function to make sure you're covering every character affected in the issue you're looking at.
Start a new topic for each comic and we'll cross it off the list. When it’s settled (because in some cases a discussion will be started, I’m sure) we’ll lock the topic. When the MCP is updated the comic will be removed from this list. Since we’re already doing this for new comics that are added to the MCP, this list will only shrink. Eventually, this project will be finished!
With that out of the way, here’s the list of comics that currently have splits in them for at least one character:
Sorry, there's no more left!
Have at it, folks!
Sometimes, a story or flashback happens between pages of a comic. When that happens it should look like this in our chronology listings:
SPIDER-MAN/PETER BENJAMIN PARKER
…
KOP2 6
ASM 256 (1 - 14)
VSS 1/2-FB
ASM 256 (15 - 22)
ASM 257
…
Unfortunately, we haven’t always been doing this, so we have some older entries that look like this:
SPIDER-MAN/PETER BENJAMIN PARKER
…
PPTSS 105
PPTSS 106
COH 4
PPTSS 106
SWII 2
…
Or, there are multiple flashbacks in an issue that should look like this:
LIZARD/DR. CURTIS CONNORS
…
ASM 313-FB
PPTSS 238 (6:5)-FB
{ASM 6 (10:2 - 11:1)-FB}
PPTSS 238 (7)-FB
ASM 6 (11:2 -11:5)-FB
ASM 6
…
But sometimes, they look like this:
LIZARD/DR. CURTIS CONNORS
…
ASM 166
PPTSS 33-FB
M/TU 66-BTS
M/TU 68-BTS
ASM 173-BTS
PPTSS 33-FB
PPTSS 32-FB
…
What we need is a quick description of where the break in the comic is and why the other story (or flashback) fits there. You might come across errors in the chronologies, where there shouldn’t be a split in the comic at all. Good! Point this out, because we want to clean these up as well.
As you’re poking around the chronologies you may come across time travel/time displacement stories. An example of this is the Fantastic Four Wedding Special; Reed and Sue appear over several points in their lives in this one issue, so it’s listed at several different points in their chronologies. These have been left off the list, but if you find a time travel story on this list, point it out and we’ll remove it.
The format is (page:panel) So page 3, panel 2 would look like (3:2) Page 3, panel 2 through page 6, panel 5 would look like (3:2 - 6:5)
Here’s an example of what we’re looking for.
Feel free to use the search function to make sure you're covering every character affected in the issue you're looking at.
Start a new topic for each comic and we'll cross it off the list. When it’s settled (because in some cases a discussion will be started, I’m sure) we’ll lock the topic. When the MCP is updated the comic will be removed from this list. Since we’re already doing this for new comics that are added to the MCP, this list will only shrink. Eventually, this project will be finished!
With that out of the way, here’s the list of comics that currently have splits in them for at least one character:
Sorry, there's no more left!
Have at it, folks!