Comic Books?
March 3, 2015 4:31 PM - Subscribe
I'm not sure what's coming down the pipe for Fanfare, but I'd be curious if people think that comic books - since they come out in a serialized format - would be a good fit. I, for one, wouldn't mind talking about some Squirrel Girl.
Also reading Squirrel Girl, would participate.
posted by trunk muffins at 5:50 PM on March 3, 2015
posted by trunk muffins at 5:50 PM on March 3, 2015
I'm currently subscribing to Saga and have read other series - anything but the over-sexualised Marvel/DC stuff. I'm also open to what you lot like.
Comixology could be good enough for metadata.
posted by arzakh at 7:58 PM on March 3, 2015
Comixology could be good enough for metadata.
posted by arzakh at 7:58 PM on March 3, 2015
I read a lot of comics, and I don't read one-eighty-thousandth of what comes out a week. So I do wonder how folks who come here for movies and TV would feel about having Fanfare bombarded with comic book entries. But if it's a thing MeFi is into, sure, I'd be down.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 4:49 PM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by kittens for breakfast at 4:49 PM on March 4, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm cutting back my comics for the time being, but I'd still totally be down for it.
posted by dinty_moore at 7:01 PM on March 4, 2015
posted by dinty_moore at 7:01 PM on March 4, 2015
I'd rather not see comic books discussed here. (And I read a few.) Just my opinion. There's a lot of stuff that comes out weekly, and I think the volume of them will obscure other media. While also not being discussed on here as much, as there's a lot of other places online to discuss comics. Just my opinion, of course.
posted by Catblack at 2:44 AM on March 5, 2015
posted by Catblack at 2:44 AM on March 5, 2015
But it would be only comics Mefites a're interested in discussing, right? My experience in comics related threads is that we do bring up the same maybe-dozen comics over and over again. Which isn't a bad thing, I think. With an issue coming out once a month, that's three more entries a week. Even if I'm only estimating 50% of that number, it would be ... Six.
I think the bigger issue is that all of them would be coming out on Wednesday. Even if it's only 3-6 of them a week, I can see how that could be an annoying glut. I'm wondering what the feasibility would be of doing something like the Netflix episode masterposts every week for comics - and also, do the individual Netflix episodes show up in the feed they are included in a masterpost ?
posted by dinty_moore at 3:24 AM on March 5, 2015
I think the bigger issue is that all of them would be coming out on Wednesday. Even if it's only 3-6 of them a week, I can see how that could be an annoying glut. I'm wondering what the feasibility would be of doing something like the Netflix episode masterposts every week for comics - and also, do the individual Netflix episodes show up in the feed they are included in a masterpost ?
posted by dinty_moore at 3:24 AM on March 5, 2015
What if we just had one post for each series? Since FanFare threads don't close, we could just add to the conversation as we see each new issue?
posted by JHarris at 3:03 PM on March 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by JHarris at 3:03 PM on March 5, 2015 [1 favorite]
I would think that most issues are short, so lumping them together might work fine.
posted by Going To Maine at 3:17 PM on March 5, 2015
posted by Going To Maine at 3:17 PM on March 5, 2015
The only worry I'd have is spoilers, though that is only a worry if you all have more self restraint than I do.
posted by dinty_moore at 3:26 PM on March 5, 2015
posted by dinty_moore at 3:26 PM on March 5, 2015
Most series only come out about once a month, and we're not going to be discussing every single title on the stands, so I don't think the volume will really be overwhelming compared to TV or podcasts. I'm not sure how well set-up for external metadata pulls comicbookdb is, but they're comprehensive (series page, issue page) if not terribly aesthetically exciting.
posted by kagredon at 6:25 PM on March 5, 2015
posted by kagredon at 6:25 PM on March 5, 2015
I would love to have comics discussed here and I'm not even a big comics fan!
posted by latkes at 7:13 AM on March 6, 2015
posted by latkes at 7:13 AM on March 6, 2015
Is this something that we should consider bringing to contact form/Metatalk? I'm not sure the mods regularly check Fanfare Talk unless there's lots of flags being thrown, since it's mainly for coordinating stuff.
posted by kagredon at 5:06 PM on March 12, 2015
posted by kagredon at 5:06 PM on March 12, 2015
I think metatalk's a good option - there's still some formatting stuff that seems worth discussing as a community. Though I'm on mobile today so I nominate someone else to do it.
posted by dinty_moore at 9:44 AM on March 13, 2015
posted by dinty_moore at 9:44 AM on March 13, 2015
I'm over my metatalk limit, so can't post it. I did send a modmail to cortex, and he said that this is fine for there as a brainstorming thing, but also that there's a backlog of fanfare stuff to take care of so we shouldn't expect anything immediately.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:02 AM on March 13, 2015
posted by Going To Maine at 10:02 AM on March 13, 2015
So I do wonder how folks who come here for movies and TV would feel about having Fanfare bombarded with comic book entries.
This would be my only concern, speaking as a non-comic-book-reader. There are umpty-bajillion titles published every month. It would be very easy for FanFare to become swamped to the point where everything else gets knocked off to page-two before anyone anyone has a chance to see it.
If comic books are added, I really think they would be well-served if they were under their own, dedicated tab or something. That, or FanFare needs to enact a system where users can select only the categories (tv, movies, blogs, etc.) they want displayed. That's probably a bit more complex than the powers-that-be want to make things, though.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:57 PM on March 17, 2015
This would be my only concern, speaking as a non-comic-book-reader. There are umpty-bajillion titles published every month. It would be very easy for FanFare to become swamped to the point where everything else gets knocked off to page-two before anyone anyone has a chance to see it.
If comic books are added, I really think they would be well-served if they were under their own, dedicated tab or something. That, or FanFare needs to enact a system where users can select only the categories (tv, movies, blogs, etc.) they want displayed. That's probably a bit more complex than the powers-that-be want to make things, though.
posted by Thorzdad at 12:57 PM on March 17, 2015
This would be my only concern, speaking as a non-comic-book-reader. There are umpty-bajillion titles published every month. It would be very easy for FanFare to become swamped to the point where everything else gets knocked off to page-two before anyone anyone has a chance to see it.
The same is true to a much greater extent about podcasts, TV, and movies, and Fanfare still moves at a manageable pace. I doubt that there'd be more than about 10-15 monthly series that people would want to follow, which works out to about 4/week.
posted by kagredon at 2:44 PM on March 17, 2015
The same is true to a much greater extent about podcasts, TV, and movies, and Fanfare still moves at a manageable pace. I doubt that there'd be more than about 10-15 monthly series that people would want to follow, which works out to about 4/week.
posted by kagredon at 2:44 PM on March 17, 2015
And we should bear in mind that, unless, my scraped count is off, there have only been ~200 fanfare posts over its existence. This is a presentation issue, not a quantity issue.
posted by Going To Maine at 6:55 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by Going To Maine at 6:55 PM on March 17, 2015
You're an order of magnitude off: the most recent FanFare post is number 2764.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 8:00 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 8:00 PM on March 17, 2015
Bah! Stupid five-minute web scraper.
posted by Going To Maine at 8:36 PM on March 17, 2015
posted by Going To Maine at 8:36 PM on March 17, 2015
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posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 5:10 PM on March 3, 2015