I have to applaud Red Lamp over stadardizing the charater wiki format, but I have to say what first brought me to comicvine has been lost in the new format. I first started using comicvine as I was re-rereading the entire Avengers series. I would periodically find a character who I have not seen since the 70's and think "crap I should know him, who the heck is that". I could then fire up comicvine, find him and refresh the old brain, which always lead to "What the heck happened to him?" That would lead me to the story arcs and I could catch up, and fill in the missing years.
Now with the new format, 50 years of the Fantastic Four's history will try to get crammed into a 2 or 3 paragraph note of "major story arcs". How major a story does it have to be to make the cut? I understand that you don't want the character pages to a thousand paragraphs long, but the new format really prevents the reader from tracking the history of a character. OK, fine move the characters story arc to their own page or tab off the character's page to reduce the clutter. Make a character resume, not a character history, but where do you go if you are looking for that history?
It is fine to have a new tab for story arcs, but they are in alphabetical order and not chronological order. How is one to track through the character history? If anything the story arc tab has made following the story arcs more confusing instead of less confusing.
Is it possible to make the story arcs sortable by chronology? I understand it will take more work than just sorting by release date, but it would be more handy for people who are new to a series trying to play catch up. Am I the first to mention this concept?
I have to applaud Red Lamp over stadardizing the charater wiki format, but I have to say what first brought me to comicvine has been lost in the new format. I first started using comicvine as I was re-rereading the entire Avengers series. I would periodically find a character who I have not seen since the 70's and think "crap I should know him, who the heck is that". I could then fire up comicvine, find him and refresh the old brain, which always lead to "What the heck happened to him?" That would lead me to the story arcs and I could catch up, and fill in the missing years.
Now with the new format, 50 years of the Fantastic Four's history will try to get crammed into a 2 or 3 paragraph note of "major story arcs". How major a story does it have to be to make the cut? I understand that you don't want the character pages to a thousand paragraphs long, but the new format really prevents the reader from tracking the history of a character. OK, fine move the characters story arc to their own page or tab off the character's page to reduce the clutter. Make a character resume, not a character history, but where do you go if you are looking for that history?
It is fine to have a new tab for story arcs, but they are in alphabetical order and not chronological order. How is one to track through the character history? If anything the story arc tab has made following the story arcs more confusing instead of less confusing.
Is it possible to make the story arcs sortable by chronology? I understand it will take more work than just sorting by release date, but it would be more handy for people who are new to a series trying to play catch up. Am I the first to mention this concept?
Did not follow the War of Kings, but I am interested as to who is the current possessor of the Cosmic Control Rod. With all the goings on in the Negative zone currently with Fantastic Four and Annihilus, I am wondering who has the rod.
The last word on its page is " Talon and Razor murdered Catastrophus and stole the Rod so they could use it to convince Blastaar to declare war to the Positive Zone."
Ok, so Jubilee never had such great powers, and then she though her life sucked because her crappy powers were de powered. Now she's a vampire. Strong, fast, immortal, regeneration... ok the bursting into flame thing in sunlight kinda sucks, but really this is a power upgrade.
Why she doesn't embrace the whole vampire I don't understand
Yes, there is the whole "Ok, I can go off and be a killing machine" thing, but Wolverine is no bed of roses either. Beats being depowered when all your friends are mutants.
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I've been reading Avengers: The Children's Crusade and I have been struggling as to where this fits in on the Marvel™ time line. It is after the Decimation, but is it before the Civil War? Cap is in his classic uniform and he and Tony Stark are kinda short with each other. Does anyone have any better way to mark it on the timeline?
OK we've all heard it. Someone dies within the Fantastic Four Family, and the Fantastic Four will be no more. We have also heard the book will change it's name to FF. For months they have been setting up the change, and I am willing to bet a cosmic rod the new name will be Future Foundation. If Reed survives "Three" no doubt he will lead the new FF, but if he dies who would lead? I think the choices Are limited to: 1. Valeria Richards. If Reed dies the FF will need a smart leader, and who is smarter than Reed?
There is of course a problem. Deep down inside Valeria has a little Dameon from the Omen thing going on. She may not be troubled, but I am guessing she is trouble.
So if not Valeria then who? 2. Dr. Doom. This is a long shot, but Doom has a major role to play in the next issue or two. If Magneto can turn over a new leaf and make the move from villain to hero, why not Doom? After all, doesn't all hope lie with Doom?
All hope?
Yep, All hope. If you can't trust Victor. who can you trust?
3. Sue Richards She's tough, she's hot. She's savy, and she knows how to get a team in line. She's done the job before. And she's hot. She's the Marvel Mom everyone wants single (or availble) and she is hot. Did I say that already?
Well, it is the last week to speculate. Who do you think will lead the FF?
OK we've all heard it. Someone dies within the Fantastic Four Family, and the Fantastic Four will be no more. We have also heard the book will change it's name to FF. For months they have been setting up the change, and I am willing to bet a cosmic rod the new name will be Future Foundation.
If Reed survives "Three" no doubt he will lead the new FF, but if he dies who would lead? I think the choices Are limited to: 1. Valeria Richards. If Reed dies the FF will need a smart leader, and who is smarter than Reed?
There is of course a problem. Deep down inside Valeria has a little Dameon from the Omen thing going on. She may not be troubled, but I am guessing she is trouble.
So if not Valeria then who? 2. Dr. Doom. This is a long shot, but Doom has a major role to play in the next issue or two. If Magneto can turn over a new leaf and make the move from villain to hero, why not Doom? After all, doesn't all hope lie with Doom?
All hope?
Yep, All hope. If you can't trust Victor. who can you trust?
3. Sue Richards She's tough, she's hot. She's savy, and she knows how to get a team in line. She's done the job before. And she's hot. She's the Marvel Mom everyone wants single (or availble) and she is hot. Did I say that already?
Well, it is the last week to speculate. Who do you think will lead the FF?
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It appear the best thing on TV today is a human drama story that happens to have zombies. Will AMC's Walking Dead change the gendre forever?
Special effects have rarely been the big draw to zombie movies, most movies have stood on the great charaters that end up in the worst situation ever. Has Walking Dead raised the bar?
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