Talk:Limited series

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those (6 to 9 l.s. issues) are just and plane limited series, genius.--T for Trouble-maker 20:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 Merging 2 Page name 3 Metawhaaaaat?? 4 List of limited series 5 History of limited series (comics) 6 Maxi-series 7 The term limited series 8 An observation with 52

[edit] Merging

I would suggest that, especially given the controversy (and frankly, the impossible nature of resolving) around mini and maxiseries scope, these terms should be incorporated into this page. We can easily then list all these series, creating one repository for them all. I look forward to comments. Dyslexic agnostic 06:44, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Further, having metaseries and metaseries (comics) makes entirely no sense. I have cleaned up metaseries (comics) while the merger discussion happens, but clearly we need to consolidate these various headings, which are never used consistently, into the easist place to find them, namely here, with redirects for the relevant terms and proper disambiguation in metaseries and miniseries. Dyslexic agnostic 06:58, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Shot up and just do it, stupid, nobady cares enough to vote, after all your articles are jus studs--T for Trouble-maker 16:00, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Done!...and you call yourself deletionist! you should be ashamed of yourself--T for Trouble-maker 16:15, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Page name

Is there a good reason why this page is at Limited series (comics) rather than Limited series, when the latter redirects here? Steve block talk 19:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

None, except for the fact that all the wikis have to be redirected if we change it. Dyslexic agnostic 20:03, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

All what wikis? Steve block talk 21:55, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Metawhaaaaat??

That concept need several sources, I didn't find any comics authority using the term. It's indeed ok with manga, but in comics it's not that common. Remember that wikipedians aren't aloud to coin terms here, some good external authority has to coin it first (in this case it'd had to be quoted from wizard or some magazine or something published with dan diddio, avi arad or some big shot using the word. Other way the section would have to be erased.--T for Trouble-maker 21:54, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Grant Morrison's seven soldiers has been referred to as a meta series, although it's probably the only one just now. Steve block talk 21:58, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, nobody on internet uses the term, I changed it for Tie-in series. I've also heard Spin-of series, but never metaseries. We could go back to that term, but some serious sourcing would be needed. Check my crisis and house of m changes, I'm sure could have missed stuff. Especialy on House of M, since I haven't read it yet, but I'm sure previous version was shorter but wrong; so my contribs could be shorten, but don't go back to previous version and make sure the sequence is correct. Thanks a lot--T for Trouble-maker 04:44, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

The reason why the term metaseries hasn't been used apart from with Seven Soldiers is cos there haven't been any other metaseries. Also much of your description of what a tie-in series is needs a rewrite tbh. rst20xx 10:51, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] List of limited series

I have renamed the list of maxiseries to this more all-encompassing and less ambiguous term. Hope all are in favour. Dyslexic agnostic 18:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Sorry for any confusion. I always move talk pages with the article. Some of the page moves by T-Man he did by creating new pages and shifting the contents. I won't be making further moves, as we have only two pages now, limited series (comics) and list of limited series. Dyslexic agnostic 19:01, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of limited series (comics)

As per Steve's request: limited series (comics) was created by me here on 12:25, 15 January 2006, using data from the then-sites maxiseries and miniseries. At this time I added comic info to metaseries, dablinked miniseries to limited series (comics), and did the same for metaseries. I didn't do anything to maxiseries that I can find, as T-Man's moves make it hard to find anything. i didn't dlete maxiseries or miniseries at that time. Dyslexic agnostic 19:21, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maxi-series

Of interest to the whole "maxi-series"/"limited series debate: I see in a 1988 Dc publication (Sword of the Atom Special #3) that the nine-issue Flash Gordon limited series was advertised as a "maxi-series". Dyslexic agnostic 06:56, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The term limited series

I'm still wondering why no one has made any input regarding where the term limited series came from. I know Marvel Comics was the first to make frequent use of it. Does anyone have any opinion regarding this? --Destron Commander 04:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] An observation with 52

It may be that DC is looking at the number of issues as large enough to warrant not using a variation of "limited series" to describe the title. For the most part these terms have been reserved for titles that run from between 2 and 12 issues, regardless of the publication period.

If the publisher is not claiming that the title is a "limited series", then it most likely should not be included here.

However, if, for this article, the criteria is that the publisher or creative team set a definitive end issue, then 52 would not be the longest running limited series. That designation would go to Dave Sim's Cerebus, which he decided, relatively early in its run, that it would end with issue 300.

J Greb 09:24, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The way I see it with 52 is that it is more accurate to describe it as a finite series since, like Cerebus, it would go through a lot of storylines before it reaches the end. The definition for limited series is that it is a complete story in itself. Hmm, I think I should write another article on this... --Destron Commander 09:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)