With Marvel’s Legacy event, attention turned last fall to numbering on comics — and we released our updated and exhaustive legacy numbering survey, looking at the highest-numbered North American comic book series across time. A few things have changed since then: several of those Marvel titles had already ended or have had final issues announced, … Read more
The Legacy event — which will revise the issue numbering of many of its titles to restore their original numbering, or something close to it — released today, and it recalled that more than a decade ago, I had written a piece on what I termed “legacy titles” and their numbering for Comics Buyer’s … Read more
I’ve been busy most of the last few months writing my upcoming Star Trek novel trilogy for Pocket Books, so I haven’t been able to do more than the monthly wrap-ups here. Following a fascinating look at variant covers from David Harper at SKTCHD and a fun blog post from Russ Dobler using Comichron to … Read more
Newsarama posted a column this week speculating on whether DC might go to seasonal numbering of issues, rebooting the numbers every year — which reminded me that Nrama had asked me a few weeks back for some thoughts on comics numbering and where it came from in the first place. I don’t know if that … Read more
In the wake of DC’s announced relaunches of its whole line in September, news of another numbering change, this time to Uncanny X-Men, a survivor of past relaunches. David Uzumeri at Comics Alliance writes that “as a consequence of the events of Jason Aaron‘s X-Men: Schism event series, the stalwart title will end as of … Read more