Comments on: 2/16 – Curious Cat Asks…

By: HellRazor

HellRazor — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:20:57 +0000

I long for the days when you didn’t need a frickin instruction manual to figure out the numbering of comic books.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:48:50 +0000

But still, couldn’t they come up with a better more creative name then She-Loki?????

Ha!

Well, that’s not the actual name for the character in the comic – they just call him/her Loki.

That’s a fan-given name.

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:45:05 +0000

Sounds a little like Sir Tristan/Lady Tristan from Camelot 3000

But still, couldn’t they come up with a better more creative name then She-Loki?????

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:35:34 +0000

Wait…. what…….. She-Loki ????????????????

Jezus, am I glad I still don’t read this stuff.

I don’t love the book, but the She-Loki stuff is actually not as bad as it sounds.

SPOILER WARNING!!

The concept of the book is that the Asgardians have all returned in the bodies of humans and Thor has to get to them and “free” the Asgardians from their mortal bodies.

He did so with mostly everyone, but he can’t find Sif, which of course irritates him. And we learn that it is because Loki has hijacked the Asgardian body waiting for Sif, just in an attempt to, naturally, screw with Thor. Loki knows it will be temporary, and eventually Sif WILL return, but for now, he’s dealing with using her body because it helps his plan to screw over Thor.

So in that sense, it really is a pretty standard Loki story.

SPOILERS OVER!!!

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:32:30 +0000

Are they counting the numbering of when the title went back to being “Journey into Mystery” during Heroes Reborn?

I do not believe so, which is why some folks look upon this re-numbering as extremely fishy.

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:18:31 +0000

There aren’t that many I keep up with, but generally in a short box labeled “Justice League, all titles” or “JSA all titles” in chronological order. Treating the team itself as a character.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:13:21 +0000

@Greg Hatcher: if you store your books by character, where do you put your team books?

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:20:24 +0000

Wait…. what…….. She-Loki ????????????????

Jezus, am I glad I still don’t read this stuff.

By: DanLarkin

DanLarkin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:50:33 +0000

Are they counting the numbering of when the title went back to being “Journey into Mystery” during Heroes Reborn?

By: S_O

S_O — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:41:57 +0000

I like how UHBMCC handles it – after coming back to the original numbering, they file the series separately as, lets say, “Amazing Spider-Man (I) cont.”.

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:07:14 +0000

This is why I don’t mess with volume numbers. I find that “Green Lantern #38, May 2008″ clears it up pretty nicely. There’s no chance of mixing it up with the Green Lantern #38 that came out in October of 1967.

I just pulled those issue numbers & months out of thin air to illustrate my point, so you don’t have to point out if they’re innacurrate.

By: Spiffy

Spiffy — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:01:00 +0000

Does Curious Cat stay up nights worrying over stuff like this? Me-oWWW!

By: Dalarsco

Dalarsco — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:58:02 +0000

I just file them in publication order no matter the number. Why is that so confusing? I also file War Machine after the last volume of Iron Man and Iron Man after The Order, though that is mostly because I didn’t want to get more dividers.

By: universaladdress

universaladdress — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:29:51 +0000

I’d classify it as “unnecessarily goddamn confusing”

By: Zebulon Pike

Zebulon Pike — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:48:53 +0000

I have a question for everyone, if you now file ASM as Vol. 1, how do you file the issues where the numbering was split?

By: Colossus_2000

Colossus_2000 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:45:05 +0000

It’s even more annoying when you’re trying to store them as computer files. I have a fair few downloaded issues (most of which I own anyway but can’t be bothered getting out of storage) and while it’s easy to just place one issue behind the other in a box, ordering on a computer is a nightmare!

And if Incredible Hercules took over from Incredible Hulk, does it keep that spot in the order? Or does he get his own, and Rulk take over? Is ‘Hulk’ Volume 1, or like Volume 4 or something? (Another computer issue, Hercules comes before Hulk alphabetically, so Herc comes first)

By: Greg Hatcher

Greg Hatcher — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:31:11 +0000

This is why I just store my comics in chronological order by title character instead of by their numbering.

…I think that may be the most OCD thing I’ve ever admitted to.

By: The Mad Monkey

The Mad Monkey — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:05:13 +0000

Perhaps some certain publishers should completely stop trying to hit the big numbers and just make on-going mini-series…kinda like what IDW does with Transformers and Star Trek. This way, collectors can keep track by date of release.
It seems to me that numbering is really quite irrelevant these days unless a comic is publicized as being a #1 or a #600. That is only certain comic companies going for sales…and there’s nothing entirely wrong with that…but, it is cheating. Thor #600 may have been the 600th comic to feature Thor, but it’s not the 600th issue of Journey Into Mystery/Mighty Thor.
So, in the case of Thor…I guess my logic would dictate that it’s both Vol. 1 and Vol. 3.

Glad I could help…

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:45:21 +0000

Volume 4

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:10:39 +0000

I read the first… three? issues. And it was a lot of plod, plod, plod. And She-Loki is dumb. But maybe I’ll catch up one day.