Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20161124005352/@comment-61022-20161202023637

I think a page of definitions for issue summaries would be a great start to get people on the right track.

Yeah, I suppose isolating guest stars from supporting cast can get a little muddy when you get into situations where characters regularly cross over in each book. A guest starring appearance seldom is a selling point for comics anymore as it was 10 to 20 years ago.

I can see in like an Avengers book, when do you consider a character appearing (who isn't part of the core team in a given issue) should be considered a guest star or a supporting cast member. So yeah, maybe a separate Guest Star heading would be a little much.

As for "Other Characters", I really hope that we can delegate that for characters who don't really matter. Kind of like extras in a movie. They're there, but they don't really matter overly much.

Anyone who has a minor appearance who actually matters (even in a the slightest manner). Anyone who has a one panel appearance who matter (like say, Jarvis, or there's a brief appearance of Spider-Man in a story) could be put in the Cameo section.

With Flashbacks... That's a good question. Personally, what I've done in the past, depends on if the Flashback is substantial or not. If it's actually a major part of the story (like the story is being told from two different points in time) I usually do two appearance lists differentiating the two time periods (The Before the Fantastic Four comics for example) and break down the appearances between the two time frames for each period.

Whereas if the flashback is irrelevant to the main story, or has little to no impact, I designate them to a flashback heading in the appearances. (A recent example is there is a flashback involving Sasquatch and Vindicator. It's just over a page of material and the flashback it is a previously unseen moment, but it has no impact on the overall story. So I put them in the Flashback section to denote the different continuity points.

Thoughts?