Talk:List of Dark Horse Comics publications

Indicia

• Which is it Michael Chabon Presents The Amazing Adventures of The Escapist or The Escapist? Duggy 1138 (talk) 01:10, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
  • I don't have it but both databases which I've checked against the indicia on other titles give the two titles as Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist (2004) [1] [2] and The Escapists (2006) [3] [4]. They both feature the character "The Escapist" hence the current article name Escapist (comics) following WP:NCC/THE. (Emperor (talk) 02:09, 31 October 2008 (UTC))
    • Run with it as is and if someone has the actual comic they can fix it for us later. Duggy 1138 (talk) 02:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
      • Exactly. I dropped those links in too. It occurs to me it should be at Escapist (character) given the fact they appeared in novels first. (Emperor (talk) 02:23, 31 October 2008 (UTC))

• Ditto: H.G. Wells' The War of the WorldsDuggy 1138 (talk) 01:57, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
  • Tricky as it was originally a web comic, but again: H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds [5] [6]. Which is good enough to be going on with for now. (Emperor (talk) 02:09, 31 October 2008 (UTC))
    • Well, yeah, this page isn't going to come out of the gate perfect, but I figured I'd drop a few little queries here to see if they could be worked on over time. Duggy 1138 (talk) 02:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
      • Indeed. We can always fix it but it is well worth leaving the hook dangling in case someone bites. (Emperor (talk) 02:23, 31 October 2008 (UTC))

Buffy comics

I'm find with the idea of splitting off imprints and studios. But the grouping/splitting off of franchises is troublesome. Anyone got opinions? Duggy 1138 (talk) 01:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

There aren't actually that many Buffyverse comics - those listed are largely trade paperback collections and are listed on Buffy comics so we don't need to list them here. The comics are:

• Ongoing:
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (September 1998 - November 2003) [7]
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight (March 2007 - ) [8]
  • Angel comics - two series
• Limited series:
  • Angel
  • Haunted
  • The Origin
  • Oz
  • Spike & Dru [9]
  • Tales of the Slayers
  • Tales of the Vampires
  • Willow and Tara x 2

As well as some one-shots/annuals. (Emperor (talk) 02:39, 31 October 2008 (UTC))

Phew, it's a lot easier than I thought... how many of those are "BtVS: ..." because there's not point listing them incorrectly. Duggy 1138 (talk) 03:25, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Pretty much all of them: the mini-series and the main series [10]. Worth noting there are some original graphic novels like Creatures of Habit and Ring of Fire (at least looking at them - I'd need to check as their actual articles are a mess - most of the Buffy sub-articles are awful) in addition to about 9 one-shots (Giles, Chaos Bleeds, Jonathan, Lost and Found, Lover's Walk, Reunion, The Dust Waltz, The Remaining Sunlight and Buffy/Angel - although again some of those may need checking). (Emperor (talk) 04:03, 31 October 2008 (UTC))

I have to say I'm pretty unimpressed with most of the articles these things link to. I'm not sure that every Buffy TPB is notable enough for an article, especially when that leads to a lot of duplication, I don't like the fact that they're listed as merely the subtitle and not the entire name of the collection and I really don't like the fact that for the mini-series the collections are priviledged over the original comics. However, I've got a lot to work on as it is without worrying about that at the moment... Duggy 1138 (talk) 04:16, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

They are pretty bad and fail a host of standards articles should be held to: WP:N, WP:FICT, WP:WAF, etc. and, in fact, have very little information in them that isn't already in the tables on the main page. I actually dropped a note on this into the Comics Project in reply to your Star Wars comics comments. (Emperor (talk) 04:45, 31 October 2008 (UTC))

Imprints & Reprints

The time has come to make a decision on this issue.

Do we, like the List of DC Comics publications page spin off an List of Dark Horse Comics imprint publications page and list the "Comics' Greatest World"/"Legends"/"Maverick" stuff, or do we absorb it into the main list and either add a column or mention in the note column the imprint a comic comes from?

At the moment, the additions of the Imprints on this page has created a mess, no menu links, duplication of titles, etc, but we can clear some of that up after we have a consensus.

I lean toward the new page, which is linkable from the sections/pages about the imprints themselves, but I'd like to hear (or at least read) opinions. Duggy 1138 (talk) 04:06, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes I'd go for it.

I'd also suggest "List of comics distributed by Dark Horse Comics" to cover the titles they translate and distribute, mainly manga but also manhua, etc. The name might need more work but it reflects their status as one of the biggest US distributors (who also publish other titles). (Emperor (talk) 04:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC))

I think I'm going to ask the naming question on the Project page. I find that naming sometimes needs a lot of input to get the wording right (for example is "distributor" the right word or does that really apply to Diamond who distributes for Dark Horse (I'm not saying the word is wrong, but rather I really don't know enough to say.) Duggy 1138 (talk) 06:26, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

In this context we use distributor as in : Category:Manga distributors and Category:Manhua distributors. However, what about "List of Dark Horse Comics reprints" with the opener: "As well as their own original series Dark Horse Comics also reprints comics published elsewhere as well as translating and distributing foreign comics, mainly manga but also some manhua." That kind of thing. Add a note somewhere that the details of trade paperback collections can be found on the relevant articles. (Emperor (talk) 14:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC))

Menu

List of IDW Publishing publications. I had a bit of a play with a hybrid menu approach - using limit to only display the top level sections with the compact TOC giving the alphabetically listing in a more usable form (top and bottom). Just a thought but I think it works OK. (Emperor (talk) 15:26, 1 November 2008 (UTC))

Inclusion criteria

One to watch. "Boba Fett: Twin Engines of Destruction" is actually "Star Wars: Boba Fett - Twin Engines of Destruction" (as mentioned above and on the Comics Project talk page, it seems with franchises the indicia almost always gives the franchise name first. However, the one-shot was originally serialised in Topps Comics' Star Wars Galaxy magazine [11]. Same with the "Tales from Mos Eisley" [12] and "Shadow Stalker" [13]. (Emperor (talk) 14:49, 2 November 2008 (UTC))

OK, sorry about that. I thought it was odd, but figured maybe they thought Boba's name was enough. Whether we should count material serialised elsewhere first becomes tricky. Duggy 1138 (talk) 06:21, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Well I'd suggest including these on the reprints page. (Emperor (talk) 15:36, 3 November 2008 (UTC))

Page focus

Right now there are three pages for the Dark Horse publications: this main page; List of Dark Horse Comics reprints for collections of reprints of product from other publishers; and List of Dark Horse Comics imprint publications for the imprints, all of which seem to include Dark Horse as an integral part of their marque.

It seems more logical, and would save a lot of space on this page, to rework it as a page for the reprint collections and a page for the regular comic publications. The imprints page seems unnecessary and even confusing, what with some titles switching to or from an imprint depending on series.

Summary: collapse the Imprints page into this one and turn the Reprints page into a catch-all for all collected editions. G. Timothy Walton (talk) 14:23, 18 January 2016 (UTC)