The following books have been updated or placed:
Plastic Man Archives Vol. 6 (Position Corrected)
Starman Omnibus Volume 6 (Updated Contents and Dates)
Superman: Our Worlds At War Book 1 (Changed from a 2 book entry, split to book 1 and book 2. Info changed to reflect this)
Superman: Our Worlds At War Book 2 (Info updated, placed)
Deadman: Deadman Walking (Placed)
We’re currently at about 500 Marvel books with info complete. It’s slow going, but it’s much quicker than updating the DC list is going with it already online.
Just a little update to note some changes to the front page and some content. First of all, I corrected a couple minor typos in Crisis For Infinite Nerds – bigger revisions will be coming later at some point.
I added a little thing that notes how many entries there are from the blog right on the little blog header on the front page.
I also increased the amount of featured content in the featured content bar to 8 and made it so reviews are included in the rotation. We’ll see how that works for now (I haven’t quite decided if it’s too distracting or if it’s a useful feature.)
I’m thinking about making it so the most recent two entries show up instead of just one – let me know if you guys think that’s a good idea. I don’t want the homepage to be too cluttered, but if we often have a couple updates a day when we’re running strong and I don’t want people to be required to go to the blog archive just to catch up on the most recent news. Best way to get it is still the RSS feed, of course.
Finally I added the lists, filtering, and drop down tag boxes for characters and creators to the sidebar on the home page.
The first item to deal with today is the Monster Society of Evil collection that was published back in 1989. This book (though titled similarly to the modern Captain Marvel trade) collected Captain Marvel Adventures 22-56, so it’s been placed when they came out around 1943-1945. This book is really hard to find, and it’s one of the few I’d kill to have in my collection – but can’t pay the going price for (currently over 400 dollars in most places!)
Second, I’ve placed a couple books from the Focus Imprint:
Hard Time: 50 To Life
Kinetic
These two trades aren’t really in the DC universe, but the Focus imprint never really took off and I have a feeling they will be the only stuff collected from it. As such, I’m treating the two books much like other Elseworlds or Out of Continuity collections and just placing them by date. If they were a significant ongoing series, I might give them their own list or include them on Self Contained, but since we’re including stuff like Watchmen and Camelot, we misewell include the modern experiments as well, to give an idea of what DC was up to at the time.
The modern Spirit series (the one that started off with that Batman crossover) has been added to the DCU reading order.
It consists of the following 5 books:
The Spirit Vol. 1
The Spirit Vol. 2
The Spirit Vol. 3
The Spirit Vol. 4
The Spirit Vol. 5
We’ve still got a fair amount of miscellaneous Spirit collections left to place. I’ll have to look up their contents tomorrow as they’re a bit more tricky.
Finally figured out how to get default post thumbnails working. Every book now comes with a little gray thumbnail by default, like this:
Not very exciting, I know, but it should make the reading order pages look a little more uniform (and is essential for some of the layout stuff I’m working on). Of course, the goal is that eventually every book will have an actual cover image!
Also working on the front page. Not much to look at yet.
Update: Well, it still could use a fair amount of tweaking, but I’m happy enough with it to reset the redirect from the blog. So when you visit the page, it should now go to the brand new dynamic homepage! Let me know what you think!
All this just goes to show that I can have work scheduled at 12pm the next day instead of 9am and still manage to get less than 4 hours sleep! I’m really good at that!
