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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I’m going down the unplaced books list and placing these books in the order I find them. That means this update (and the list below) is in no particular order in regards to placements in the chronology/reading orders. They’re just the ones I got to today.

On the other hand, the following books ARE now properly placed on the reading lists. Some of these are solicitations, and some are extremely out of print, but most are already printed and in circulation:

Showcase Presents: Blackhawk

Showcase Presents: Captain Carrot

Showcase Presents: Doom Patrol Vol. 2

Showcase Presents: Enemy Ace

Showcase Presents: Haunted Tank Vol. 1

Showcase Presents: Haunted Tank Vol. 2

Showcase Presents: Sgt. Rock Vol. 1

Showcase Presents: Sgt. Rock Vol. 2

Showcase Presents: Sgt. Rock Vol. 3

Showcase Presents: Super Friends

Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes Vol. 4

Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 1

Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Vol. 2

Showcase Presents: The Unknown Soldier

Showcase Presents: Warlord

Showcase Presents: The War That Time Forgot

Showcase Presents: The Great Disaster Featuring The Atomic Knights

A lot of the Showcase Presents volumes happened to be early on the list so I think I caught them all. They have not been tagged or had their covers uploaded yet, but at least they’re in order! Once I’ve got all the Unplaced Books placed, I’ll be going through and adding covers, links, and info again.

Totally unrelated, have you guys ever noticed that the first part of Hey You by Pink Floyed sounds sort of like Chrono Trigger or Star Control III music? Sorry. On shuffle here.

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