Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20160912200936/@comment-61022-20160916160950

Well, so far, the only one I've come across that crosses over the "year" line is Secret Wars II. That one instance in the 55 years of publications that are considered part of the modern age.

Even then, with the proper prose, if anyone is really that interested in continuing to read about something someone is going to go to the next page. As for this being an issue moving forward, I really don't see it being that big of a problem.

But, to clarify, I was only suggesting the "Year X" headings for the founding members of the Fantastic Four because they're the only characters where something like that could effectively work, because the yearly counting actually works based on the modern age calendar. (To clarify, by "calendar" I mean 365 days from the day the Fantastic Four got their powers as opposed to a January 1 to December 31 Calendar. Truth be told, the Fantastic Four got their powers sometime in the summer as stated in )

With other characters it would be too difficult to maintain an accurate count because of a number of factors, particularly when plotting their life history prior to their own origins and so on.

I think formatting will vary from character to character. I think that's going to have to depend on how extensive or long standing a characters are. I'd say a looser "year" counting would only work for characters who appeared between 1961 and 1965. Otherwise no.

So I'm feeling that people like the idea of the first page of it being a table of contents for the subsequent pages.

I was thinking the TOC page could include the following:

- A brief synopsis of who the character is. - Explanation of how the Sliding Timescale effects the character (if applicable) - Explain how various interpretations of events are covered (conflicting facts, modernized takes etc.) - Basically a primer for readers to navigate the pages and understand how facts are collected.

(A lot of this stuff would be mostly the same between pages, with the exception of the synopsis of the character)

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Anyway, I guess at this point, since the Fantastic Four are not such a hot commodity right now, I could get started with Mister Fantastic and start experimenting and check back for input.