Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4548390-20161111190827/@comment-61022-20161113001225

I don't typically mark those as flashbacks because they're events that happen in the confines of the same story. But that's just me. I typically view Flashbacks as events that happen in other comics.

Maybe the issue is clarifying how we classify flashbacks and how we handle them in a comic book summary because they can happen in many ways.

Off the top of my head they're usually as such:


 * A Flashback that is a recap of the events of a previous story that is strictly for recapping those events. (Example: A Spider-Man story that recaps )


 * A Flashback to an earlier story but expands or adds to that moment (A Spider-Man story that not only recaps the events of but explores the details on how Spider-Man made his costume)


 * A Flashback that tells a previously unseen moment that happens in the past (For example, all the Original Sin flashbacks, Spider-Man's Learning to Crawl storyline from Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3, a previously untold event that happened to Captain America during World War II.)


 * A Flashback that shifts to different moments in time during the same story. (IE: A story that shifts to "One Hour Earlier" or "Two Hours Earlier")


 * A flashback that shifts to a different moment during the same story arc that happens at an earlier period in that arc but wasn't revealed in a chronological way.

Creating new tags for all those different types of Flashbacks seem a little excessive to me. Especially creating different categories for them all, especially if there are different Chronology points for all of them. Putting in an APN tag will lead to it not being categorized as anything but an appearance sine we can't tag a character with more than one tag.

The best example I can use on this is. You have different versions of Reed and Sue that have specific chronological points.

Now when you take a look at someone's chronology like Spider-Man... (Here's a link of a ton of it here: http://chronologyproject.com/spidey.php)

You have all of these appearances that happen between panels and add on to previously established stories. If we're just tagging them as "Flashbacks" with an APN tag, people who are curious about where it fits in the chronology aren't going to know it.

Sure we can explain it all at the bottom in the notes, but I think that people who want to instantly jump to that next chronological point is not going to think to scroll all the way down when every other notable appearance has an APN tag.