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1 Nepalese Switcheroo
2 Newish comics
- 2.1 IDW Listings as of Feb 2006
3 Major clean-up about to come into effect
- 3.1 Comments
4 Fair use rationale for Image:Earthly Possessions (Angel Comic).jpg
5 Fair use rationale for Image:Long Night's Journey (Angel Comic).jpg
6 Fair use rationale for Image:The Curse (Angel Comic).jpg
7 Fair use rationale for Image:Angel-series vol 1 (Dark Horse Comics)-01.jpg
8 Fair use rationale for Image:Old Friends (Angel Comic).jpg

[edit] Nepalese Switcheroo

I'm trying to find a placing for Dark Horse Extra 25-28: The Nepalese Switcheroo but can't find it anywhere - where does it fit? --80.176.158.128 14:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Newish comics

IDW has provided Newsarama with a double-shot of Spike. That is, previews of both its upcoming Spike projects, Spike: Old Wounds and Spike vs. Dracula #1 (of 5). Both issues are due in comic shops in February.

First up, Old Wounds by Scott Tipton and Ferdando Goni. The solicitation for the special reads:

Is Spike’s past coming back to haunt him? When a retired L.A. detective accuses Spike of a decades-old murder, the former William the Bloody finds himself on the run and forced to try to solve the most infamous unsolved crime in Los Angeles history. Where will he turn for help? What was Spike up to in 1947? And what do those monster-slaying luchadores Los Hermanos Numeros have to do with it? It’s all-out action in the City of Angels! Written by Scott Tipton (Doomed) with art by Fernando Goni (Spike: Old Times). 48 pages.

And next, Spike vs. Dracula #1 by Peter David and Joe Corroney. The solicitation reads:

Presenting the first chapter of a five-part Spike saga spanning centuries! A hundred and twenty years ago, a tribe of gypsies inflicted a terrible curse upon the vampire known as Angelus... a curse that brought a terrible vengeance upon the tribe in the form of Angelus's family: Darla, Drusilla, and most notably, William the Bloody, a.k.a. "Spike." But the gypsy clan has a dark and powerful supporter: Count Dracula. Outraged over the slaughter of the gypsies, Dracula seeks revenge upon the three vampires... and thus begins a rivalry between Spike and Dracula that will cover decades. A rivalry steeped in blood... honor... and eleven quid. Corroney will also provide covers for all five issues, as will variant cover artists Zach Howard, Sean Murphy, and Eric Wight.

Source: http://www.newsarama.com/IDW/Spike/Previews/SpikeDoublePreview.htm Lil Flip246 03:12, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

I made artciles for the new ones:

-- Paxomen 16:16, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IDW Listings as of Feb 2006

Angel: The Curse #1-5 (W: Jeff Mariotte; A: David Messina) -- June 2005

Angel: The Curse TPB (W: Jeff Mariotte; A: David Messina) -- Jan. 2006

Spike: Old Times (W: Peter David; A: Fernando Goni) -- Aug. 2005

Angel: Old Friends #1-5 (W: Jeff Mariotte; A: David Messina) -- Nov. 2005

Spike: Old Wounds (W: Scott Tipton; A: Fernando Goni) -- Jan. 2006

Spike vs. Dracula #1-5 (W: Peter David; A: Joe Corroney) -- Feb. 2006

Spike: Lost & Found (W: Scott Tipton; A: Fernando Goni) -- April 2006

Angel Scriptbooks -- March 2006

Angel Spotlight: Illyria (W: Peter David; A: Nicola Scott) -- April 2006

Angel Spotlight: Doyle (W: Jeff Mariotte; A: David Messina) -- May 2006

Angel Spotlight: Gunn (W: Dan Jolley; A: Mark Pennington) -- June 2006

Angel Spotlight: Wesley (W: Scott Tipton; A: Mike Norton) -- July 2006

Spike TPB (W: Peter David, Scott Tipton; A: Fernando Goni) -- July 2006

Angel Spotlight: Connor (W: Peter David; A: Nicola Scott) -- Aug. 2006

Spike vs. Dracula TPB (W: Peter David; A: Joe Corroney) -- Sept. 2006

Angel Spotlight TPB -- Nov. 2006

Angel-Spike Team-Up Miniseries -- Fall 2006

Angel Cover Gallery -- Fall 2006

[edit] Major clean-up about to come into effect

'Ello lads. It seems this article isn't really fulfilling its purpose. After all, not every single comic deserves an article. You can ask the guys over the comics Wikiproject about that. Thing is, although notability is not an official guideline, it IS policy that we don't overdo it with the summaries and that we don't dedicate entire articles to single issues. As such, there are the "List of..." articles. This also means that the appropriate articles will be redirected to this page, and we can probably ditch the Angel comics template. Before anyone rashly reverts the page after I'm done with, please defend your stance first (under the comments section). Thank you. Kusonaga 22:14, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Comments

I agree some work could be done. But is it not rash to undo months of work without a proper discussion with the Buffyverse WikiPro to test consensus. E.g. if it is not acceptable to devote an article to a single issue - There are other solutions which would allow work to be preserved e.g. various merges such as putting together the Spike one-shots (which were later collected in a TPB), and merging all the "Spotlight" issues (again which were combined into a TPB later... -- Paxomen 07:43, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I wouldn't so much call it rash. These articles haven't been edited in months most of the time. Why would you collect all of the Spike one-shots, when you can just put all of the Spike one-shots here? That is the purpose of the article. Now, nothing I've done can't be reverted in a few minutes. You just go back a day in all the articles, but there is no good reason to let these articles exist. Extensive plot summaries are discouraged, and the rest of the article has the same info on the page (issues about canon). As you can see, I've put the essence of all the articles on this page, in just one or two paragraphs. Not every issue deserves an article, and not every issue needs every cover put alongside it (or any cover at all). Kusonaga 07:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

EDIT: Also, the articles devoted to comic arcs were often copyvios (we don't get to copy the information from the Dark Horse page). Kusonaga 07:51, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm with you on the plot summaries being too much (ironic, since I wrote more than a few of them), but I've also tried to include information on the creative process whenever such info has been available, particularly the comics written by Peter David as he maintains a fairly strong web presence. I've added links to the main articles of a few of the comics, which can be easily be removed if said articles are eventually deleted. It might be wise to bring the rest of the Wikiproject into this discussion.--Jeff-El 03:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I get that, but take for example, the one-shots. They don't actually have anything about the creative process. It's all just one big plot summary with a statement about continuity attached to them. It's why I haven't added Spike vs Dracula to the article yet, since I'm not sure how to work it in, but the other comics... well, haven't actually seen anything that I really missed, and really, one-shots shouldn't get their own pages unless they're something culturally import like Batman: The Killing Joke. Lord knows the "Masks" one-shot page is just a haven for a lot of preview images that can't be possibly be defended as fair-use. Kusonaga 04:11, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

One thing that I think should be included in this article is the creative team for each comic. It seems like an important piece of encyclopaedic information to me.--Jeff-El 13:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Agreed. Kusonaga 13:35, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Earthly Possessions (Angel Comic).jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Long Night's Journey (Angel Comic).jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:The Curse (Angel Comic).jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Angel-series vol 1 (Dark Horse Comics)-01.jpg

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Old Friends (Angel Comic).jpg

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