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[edit] Usage

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| title = Random
| comic_color = (see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Color scheme]])
| image = 
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| schedule = Random
| format = Random
| publisher = Random
| date = Random
| issues = Random
| main_char_team = Random
| past_current_color = (see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/Color scheme]])
| writers = Random
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| creative_team_month = Geldof
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[edit] Redesign

Ummmm... yeah. I see the rationale behind a lot of the changes, but it adds up to an unholy mess in a lot of ways.

Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do
Miniseries by Marvel Comics
Publication date August 2002 – present
Number of issues
Main character(s) Black Cat
Spider-Man
Creative team
Writer(s)
Artist(s)
Penciller(s)
Inker(s)
Colorist(s) {{{colorists}}}
Creator(s) Kevin Smith
Terry Dodson

Let's take a look at the box as it appeared on Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do under the redesign.

We have six lines in total, notwithstanding a couple spilling over. Of that:

  1. Three are bold in their entirety and have dark-pink backgrounds. As a one-line highlight on an open box, as on {{Superherobox}} and {{Superteambox}}, that's fine. When half a claustrophobic box is that way, it's not.
  2. Of the remaining, cramped, lines, half of each line is bold and the other half are links. This means well over half the box is bolded. Bad.
  3. There is no consistancy with WP:CMC's other boxen, {{Superherobox}} (973 pages), {{Superteambox}} (103 pages) and {{Supersupportingbox}} (51 pages), all of which are used on far, far more pages than the 27 of this one, hence this one is the one which must fall into line.

(Crossposted with Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Comics/templates#Re:_Fritz.27s_redesign - SoM 23:04, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Publisher

Is there a reason why Publisher is the mandatory while all the others are optional? I recently changed it, but SoM changed it back without giving any reason? --Fritz Saalfeld (Talk) 10:21, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

The bottom six or seven (the various writer/artist parameters) need to be optional because there's so many frelling potential combinations possible, and if the book's not currently running, the "As of" needs to be optional too.
Image/Caption are optional because, well, if there's no image they just take up space (especially if the image was removed by User:OrphanBot and the caption is left)
Format's optional because it's very badly named - it seems to be used to refer to miniseries/maxiseries/ongoing/etc, when it would make more sense as a reference to whether it's a 32-page stapled comic book, album, prestige format, OGN, etc.
Date's hard enough to come by that I accept that it might need to be optional.
No. of Issues... if it's a currently-ongoing series, with one volume only, or an OGN, this is pointless.
main_char_team - it's concievable that, an OGN especially, would have no ongoing notable characters.
Whereas publisher is self-evident from the cover (NB: As distinct from copyright holder, from a discussion elsewhere). - SoM 10:50, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Centering?

Can someone fix it so the image is centered? --DrBat 14:31, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Color

Can we get a different color? - Peregrinefisher 18:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

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