Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20130524205755/@comment-4651179-20130524223033

Johnnybravo44 wrote:

Is a bot just going to add Earth-616 to every main title assuming they all take place in that universe? Some issues of main titles obviously take place in other universe(s).

Yes, and then we would have to manually check if we don't need to add a new Reality to the list.

And what happens to the many issues out there that already have Universes listed for them under the Locations section?

If you mean (principally) the Ultimate Comics, there aren't a lot of titles, so I was thinking about manually implementing this new idea.

And what happens to the issues with multiple realities shown in them?

Here's my idea, of what to do in those cases.

Exiles series and What If? series will have to be carefully edited, to name two at least.

I never say it would be easy, but I think I'm ready for some hard work if needed.

Will Television/Movies/other things using the basic "Comic Template" all be edited to include this?

Yes.

And what happens to the comics that are (rightfully so) ignored of a universe, like a bunch of horror and romance stories from the '50s and what not..? Not to mention all of the Anita Blake stuff, Stephen King stuff, Orson Scott Card stuff, etc. And of course trademarked character comics like Ren & Stimpy, Tarzan, Transformers, Planet of the Apes, etc.

I guess they can be left out of this new idea.

I mean, is the Reality field entirely universally (no pun intended) neccessary? Or just for "main" titles? Or "close enough to main" titles as well? Will all Ultimate Comics be given Earth-1610 as the Reality? I know some issues of Ultimate Fantastic Four if nothing else took place in the Zombieverse, and that should be reflected. I just think for a bot to do all of this.. it could get messy. And do we have enough editors that are knowledgable about every comic out there or are we going to largely assume when it comes to many issues? Because that's one thing I am not a big fan of..

Yes, this new Reality field would be used in other realities as well. As in Ultimate Comics the universe is generally listed under locations, they will be modified manually. And in order to reflect the appearance of two universes, we would write the Reality field like this.

I think we can start with the most popular realities, Earth-616, Earth-1610 and Earth-199999.

But basically this just hurts my brain because there are so many variables surrounding it and it would be a big change to the site. But we survived the erasing of "Comics:" so I think this could work well. It just needs questions answered and rules set up first, I suppose.

Yes, is going to be big, but I promise is going to be for good.