[Index] Data Change

[ShannonA]

The "Comic" data entry in articles has become "Gaming Comic" and is now also available for regular books. I moved over the dozen or so comics that I'm aware of in the index.

(The purpose was to allow "syncing" --> Gaming Fiction books now also get synced to and from the Xenagia index and Gaming Comics will eventually get synced to and from a comic index.)

[owe for the flesh]

Alright, I just finished entering one of the issues of the Ptolus comic. How's that look?

[ShannonA]

I actually need to do some work to make individual issues of comics work well. It's fine for now, but I need to figure out whether individual issues should have articles (ala a magazine) or just a subtitle or whether they should automatically pick between the two.

They're a bit of a pain because you can have a _House of Mystery_ (with many stories) or a Spider-Man (with one) and I haven't taken the time to figure out how to make those consistent.

In any case, they're all released.

[owe for the flesh]

Should we group the comics into series, or are you still working on linking them together like the magazines?

[ShannonA]

Should we group the comics into series, or are you still working on linking them together like the magazines?

The latter.

Generally I'd say the index is more ready now for trade paperback collections than individual issues.

[owe for the flesh]

I actually need to do some work to make individual issues of comics work well. It's fine for now, but I need to figure out whether individual issues should have articles (ala a magazine) or just a subtitle or whether they should automatically pick between the two.

They're a bit of a pain because you can have a _House of Mystery_ (with many stories) or a Spider-Man (with one) and I haven't taken the time to figure out how to make those consistent.

I haven't been paying too much attention to the sci-fi/fantasy index recently, but isn't there an anthology option that works similarly to the magazines? Why not just create two comic options, one for anthologies and the other for single-story books?

[ShannonA]

I haven't been paying too much attention to the sci-fi/fantasy index recently, but isn't there an anthology option that works similarly to the magazines? Why not just create two comic options, one for anthologies and the other for single-story books?

That's a possibility, and writing some code to actually make anthologies work is on my list;).