Talk:Comic series
Other series
Should we even include other series here? And if we do, how many categories should we ad as series. For instance Confusion matrices is our word. But My Hobby and Fun Fact is Randall's. Not even sure we should list those as series but for sure not Confusion Matrices? Originally only two was mentioned, the smarter planet which is two comics belonging together, but not being part of xkcd release. And the comics sharing name. And the covid19 was mentioned as not a series. Just a collective category where many comics in a row was with that topic. For instance we could have sharks dinosaurs etc included as well, spiders, weather etc. Where is the limit. I'm mostly for deleting the entire section and removing those from the comic series category! --Kynde (talk) 11:23, 7 March 2025 (UTC)
- In my view, "Comic Series" should only contain three distinct sub-Categories, and allow us to not need to try to explain each Series we had to it (in a never-ending job, potentially) as an increasingly long pre-list (collapsed) description. Those three sub-Series are:
- Sequential Series(es)
- Things like Parody Week, or <Foo> 1..5 'stories' - from the inception, one imagiesnes, a linear and probably finite sequence with either no non-sequence comics between them or maybe a small break before revisiting.
- Thematic Series(es)
- A revisited theme (that may or may not even be planned as a Series, but turns out to be), and may even be deliberately asequential (if numbeted at all), like the Bad Map Projections or Cursed Connectors or Computer Problems. Perhaps the various 'seasonal' notable groups. As long as it is clearly the same scenario revisited (with potential for more), could be groups of no more than two (so far). But the hazier/vaguer/wider the connection, the higher the threshold should be.
- 'Meta' Series(es)
- Any grouping that is for our organisational/cataloguing purposes only, like Comics Changed After Publication. We can perhaps also link Comics Published On <Day Of Week> and the other Month-/Year-specific groupings, but I'm not really sure how far we should go in that direction.
- I don't think, at a first serious look, there are any groupings that lie outside that triad of sub-sets (possibly some groupings might be difficult to place, but no reason not to add the group-page to both [[Sequential Series]] and [[Thematic Series]] if circumstances demand, for example).
- And I'm sort of not convinced that we need to catalogue the circumstances of every member-group in the 'header' above either the Super-Series or Sub-Series pages. A simple case of "the first such example of this is <Barrel Boy/whatever>", maybe, otherwise leave the documentaion of the whys and wherefores of specific members to the respective Grouping page, where it should be already ("this seemed to be a theme that inspired Randall across the whole of 2012 and into 2013, but nothing has been seen since then...", sort of thing, at least until that theoretical scenario changes by a surprise revisit of whatever it may be).
- But I would need to seriously sit down and review everything that I'm suggesting might be affected, which I haven't done yet, and can only suggest such changes (not even implement the new pages needed as a fait accompli, requiring reverting and removing if you actually totally disagree), and so that's what I'm doing here... ;) 172.71.178.11 14:45, 7 March 2025 (UTC)
- What even is the logic of having a manual list of series(es?) above the autogenerated list, if some things in the manual list haven't been given category membership (to also appear below) and vice-versa? And it's not even a split between "true" series-pages and other (or sequential, thematic and/or meta splitting, as suggested above).
- If we're going to blather on about (as of the last update) the place of every comic series in the grand scheme of things, include everything that has a Cat for it and Categorise everything that we have included in the blathering bit. It's not hard to cross-reference and update the missing counterpart to this, surely?
- Or don't try to explain everything like that. Keep the blather short with a "some are this, some are that, representative examples of each..." sort of thing that doesn't even need collapsing because it aint that long in the first place. This is not the only Cat-listing page that has this problem, but I'm noting that it was (half) updated just recently (with something I'm surprised wasn't already there, under the circumstances)... 172.71.241.101 10:52, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
- I don't have time to read all that but i happened to notice this sentence:
What even is the logic of having a manual list of series(es?)
- Then, if you want it said shorter, make it an actual summary. Not an incomplete and inconsistant (p)rehash.
- I'm also guessing that you probably spent more time typing in that you didn't read everything than you would have done in reading it all, but never mind. 162.158.216.66 23:05, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
Why only 3 or more comics in a series
Who got to decide that all the clearly made series with less than three should be removed. I'm disagreeing with this! I wrote to FaviFake regarding this decision that I cannot see being debated before the changes was made. I believe the following comics should be reinstated as series:
- Well
- Synonym Movies
- Android
- Online Communities
- Etymology-Man
- Exoplanet Names
- Time traveling Sphere
- ISS Solar Transit
- Horror Movies
- Coronavirus Genome
- Old Days
- Alien Visitors
