Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161124005352/@comment-61022-20161125022956

When it comes to a story that where the flashback, flashforward, and main story all happen within the confines of the same issue, tagging like this is incredibly unnecessary.

Like if the narrative of the story takes place during the course of a week, and it flashes back and forward to different points in that week and it's all part of the plot, then tagging like this is totally unnecessary.

Really, if we're going to note this stuff, I think we should break down the appearances by time frames within the story. That way we can get all the chronological appearances lined up properly.

The best example I have for this (that I started doing) is

That story takes place during two distinctive points in time. Reed Richards has *two* points of continuity in this story one from his younger days and one in the present. I split up the appearances by signifying what appearances are the Present and what appearances are the Past'

I think this makes for a much cleaner presentation of the information. Also you split up everything that happens in different points in time.

In lieu of that, I really really really wish that the people who invest so much time adding all these character appearances would really add an issue summary. It's so annoying that they leave the summary blank. But that's an entirely different point all together.