I’m back from my hummus break so here are the books newly added to the DC-Chronology-Timeline-Reading-Order-List-a-ma-jig (I honestly mix up these terms all the time, cause I’m being straight casual, but what I mean is the RRO and all its related lists). All of these books have also had their included issues and publication dates added, if they were missing em.

Batman: Cacophony

Batman: Long Shadows

Superman: Mon-El Vol. 1

Superman: Nightwing and Flamebird Vol. 1

Superman: Codename Patriot

Supergirl: Friends and Fugitives

Superman: New Krypton Vol. 4

Justice Society Of America: The Bad Seed

Superman: Earth One

The New Teen Titans: Games (Dated to around 1987 Titans continuity based on interviews with creators)

Justice League of America: Team History

R.E.B.E.L.S: The Son And The Stars

Secret Six: Danse Macabre

Green Arrow / Black Canary: Five Stages

And I’m gonna take a break from this now in order to implement an idea Daniel had – displaying the book’s unique placement IDs for the Recommended Reading Order and date generated number for the Chronological Reading Order – these are the IDs that the order for every list on the site is generated from, and using them you could create your own excel document of your collection and have it sort itself in both ways. I was wondering about how to get something like this onto the page, but it didn’t click till the little brainstorming session we just had.

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The following books have had their placements corrected in the reading order.

Green Lantern: Legacy – The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan (Thanks Daniel!)

JLA: The Greatest Stories Ever Told

Terra

Superman / Supergirl: Maelstrom

Superman: New Krypton Vol. 2

Superman / Batman: Finest Worlds

Batman: Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader?

Batman: The Black Casebook

Batman: The Scottish Connection

The Life Story of the Flash (Thanks again, Daniel!)

Batgirl: Year One (these stories around the premier of Batgirl are moved to match her Silver Age creation in January 1967)

Huntress: Year One

Batman: Batgirl

Batman: Fortunate Son

Batman: The Cat and the Bat

Teen Titans: Year One (Moved to match the Teen Titans Silver Age debut is June 1964)

Those are all the updates/tweaks I had written down for books already in the Recommended Reading Order, so now I’m going to get back to adding unplaced books.

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I managed to get in a few more reading order additions.

Superman / Batman: World’s Finest

Arkham Asylum: Madness

Superman / Batman: Night And Day

Gotham City Sirens: Vol. 1: Union

Green Arrow / Black Canary: Big Game

Green Lantern Corps: Emerald Eclipse

Batman: Arkham Reborn

Batman: International

Batman And Robin Vol. 1: Batman Reborn

Batman: Life After Death

Batman: Streets of Gotham: Hush Money

Now I gotta crash – eyes glazing over.

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So, while conversation is still brewing as to the exact order of the recent Batman trades, I’m going to do my best to keep going down the Unplaced Books list and making placements into various reading orders. I’m gonna try and focus on modern stuff first (and skip any Archives I stumble across for now) since that’s what I need in there to keep working on the modern event reading lists. I’m also trying to make sure all the books have their issues and dates of contents included. Here’s what I’ve gotten to tonight so far:

Enigma (Moved to Self Contained, which I’m going to sort alphabetically again later)

Majestic: Strange New Visitor (Also on the Wildstorm list, which is not organized yet.)

Booster Gold: Day of Death

Secret Six: Depths

Power Girl: A New Beginning

Red Robin: The Grail

Wonder Woman: Warkiller

Titans: Fractured

Superboy: The Boy Of Steel

Outsiders: The Hunt

DC’s Greatest Imaginary Stories Vol. 2: Batman & Robin

Shade: The Changing Man: Scream Time

Icon: The Mothership Connection

Doom Patrol: We Who Are About To Die

The Shield Vol. 1: Kicking Down The Door

Batgirl Vol. 1: Batgirl Rising

Red Tornado: Family Reunion

Justice League Of America Vol. 5: The Second Coming

The Flash: Rebirth

Batwoman: Elegy

Justice League: Cry For Justice

Since starting this batch of RRO additions, there have been a couple books added and a couple removed from the Batman R.I.P. / Reborn chronology. For details, just check that list or look in the CRB thread if you wanna know why.

On a totally random note, I took a look at my site on an iphone tonight when I went out to dinner with some friends and I was really pleasantly surprised! I zoomed in to fill the screen with the book list part of a reading order and it looked really nice. I could totally see that being helpful for someone browsing in a comic shop! So cool!

I was really worried about the compatibility of this site, since I cobbled together so much of the code random pieces at a time, but it didn’t really load much slower than normal (which is pretty slow, I’m sorry – I just can’t afford the private server.. advertising only came to 3 bucks last month, haha). There were only a few minor lines and thumbnails out of place (notably the book review ones in the top right corner, for some reason). Overall I was really proud of this baby.

Anyway, I’m gonna take a little break and then get back to adding more books!

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So I’ve added a couple more books to the database and the Recommended Reading Order.

The first is the 1998-ish Origins trade, Secret Origins: Featuring the JLA. Though this is an Origins trade, meaning it probably tells early stories in it, based on its cast and their looks on the cover I’m guessing there is a lot in it that ties into continuity around that time. I’m placing it right around when the contents came out, after JLA: One Million and before the Elseworlds interlude coming up at the end of 1998.  The book has been fully tagged and updated.

The second is an upcoming release! It was brought to my attention on the CBR forums that someone found a solicitation for Justice League International Vol. 5 on Amazon.ca and then also on Amazon.com! Looks like the book should be coming out around January 11, 2011. The guess is that it’s including issues 31-38 of Justice League America. I’ve placed it by date, which seemed to work well for the past 4 volumes, between Superman: Eradication and Sandman: The Doll’s House.

So I’ve filled out it’s info based on that information. No idea what the cover will be like, yet, but I’ve uploaded a placeholder like I did for Showcase Presents: Jonah Hex Vol. 2 (you hear me, DC? I will cry if this never comes out.)

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