Collecting the Comics

I have had an idea kicking around for a little while. I'm ashamed to say that it's the sort of thing that wouldn't ever happen if I didn't just sit down and do it, but that I never get around to it. So, rather than letting this idea fall away, I'm going to put it out here for anybody to pick up.

Between the Writer's Room series, the OblivAeon event narrative, and the various self-contained stories we've heard in character episodes...Christopher and Adam have described the outlines for a lot of comics. Enough that I was thinking we could create wiki pages for them!

I had in mind a page for each comic issue that Christopher and Adam have told us something about, listing as much of the following as we have:

• The title, issue number, and date
• The cover
• Characters
• Locations/environments
• A plot summary
• Crossover events the issue is involved with
• Notable continuity events (costume changes, scars, friendships, first appearances, ...)

We could also make an index page, linking to all the individual issue pages, of course.

Like I said, I had this idea and thought it would be straightforward to go through the Writer's Room episodes, listen to the brief summary that C&A gave at the end of the creative work, and take quick notes. But it turns out that they don't actually give a summary for most of the Writer's Room issues! Figuring out the final issue content will take listening through the whole episode, making sure to record only the final decisions.

Since several Letters Page listeners seem to be making their way through a second or third listen of all the episodes, I figured - why not just toss out the sketch of the idea? At the very least, it would be a great way to collect together all Adam's amazing covers on the Sentinels wiki.

Collecting the covers, if nothing else, sounds like a worthy endeavor. :)

Uh... I've actually been working on something for the wiki quietly in the background. Here's a quick draft version of one of them.

Justice Comics

Also, my list of covers that exist so far:

Nice! Yeah, that's sort of what I was thinking about for the summary page. For individual issues the only thing that's really missing is a plot summary, which would be extremely cool now that we have several.

That sounds like a massive undertaking.  Thankfully, we are massive nerds with a deep and abiding love of an entirely fictitious comic book publisher. Assuming someone wants to do the heavy lifting of setting up such a wiki, adding the needed content shouldn't be that hard.  

Fortunately the wiki part is already done and WT’s been putting up his notes, too:

• https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Justice_Comics
• https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Mystery_Comics
• https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Freedom_Five_Annual
• https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Freedom_Five_(Comic)

Hey gang! Just wanted you to know that the last chapter of the History of Sentinel Comics is an Overstreet Guide to collecting Sentinel's comics, listing every title ever published and the value of each issue, with notes on significant ones. It's enormous. dw

Looking forward to it

FWIW I finally got around to the "collecting the covers into a gallery" part of it: https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Category:Comic_Covers

The individual Podcast Episode pages for Writer's Room episodes now have the matching cover displayed too. Example: https://sentinelswiki.com/index.php?title=Podcasts/Episode_149

Very nice! This gave me a great chance to go through and revisit a lot of the covers I’ve loved from the Letters Page. The Guise one is particularly good :D

Yes, that work was worth it just to get all the covers in one place! Associating each Writers' Room cover with the podcast episode is also an excellent step forward.

All the covers that have been released so far (that I'm aware of) other than the two in the core RPG book (which I haven't gotten the go-ahead to include yet since it's only pre-release for Kickstarter backers at this point) are now in that wiki gallery that Jeysie linked.