Up for discussion: expanding Supermanica?

[DrJohnnyDiablo]

IMHO, Supermanica should stay devoted to the Pre-MAN OF STEEL comics canon. However, I see no problem with including the Superman of Earth-A or other characters and info from Pre-Crisis comics outside of the Superman family of titles.

[Super Monkey]

So what is the outcome of this?

Where do we stand now?

[Great Rao]

So what is the outcome of this?

Where do we stand now?

I kind of assumed that we left it that we'd stick with the pre-Crisis Superman comic books.  Some people seem open to adding a few other classic sources, but it looks like my original suggestion of an analytical, artistic, outside-the-Supermanverse mega-site (analytical articles and analysis, tribute art, reviews, etc: sort of an open-source STTA) is a non-starter.

As far as adding more canonical sources, I suppose it's a question of figuring out which of them, if any, to consider for addition.

Any motions and seconds?  Anything moved and 2nded could be up for a vote...

[Super Monkey]

One source which is in the The Great Superman Book but somehow escape the website is NYWF : New York World's Fair Comics.

I think it should be added ASAP.

I have an entry ready to go.

[TELLE]

Yeah, I say go for it on that, SM.

[Super Monkey]

He might be one of if not the most obscure Superman villians of them all, he dies at the end of the story.

I will go ahead and add him, then you can add him to the Canonical sources, or I can

It's from the The Great Superman Book, so I don't think anyone would object.

[Gangbuster]

There may be another solution to the problem. We may be purist about Supermanica's purpose, but that also doesn't change the fact that you, Rao, have too much to do. Just delegate responsibilites and take more of an editorial role. I'm sure that forum users would like to help out, in order to keep things rolling.



Here's an idea, for example- get volunteers, and create different email addresses. To one address, forward mailsack messages, to one forward scans, etc. Then give different people access to those addresses, who will be responsible for that particular job at their own pace. (One of the jobs could be transcribing the Great Superman Book, to keep that project rolling.) You could rotate on a quarterly basis, like many forums do.



As for me, just give me superboy.superman.nu so I can make a giant Superboy through the Ages website and post my Superboy Annual #1 scan! *Not so discreet giant hint* *hint*

[Great Rao]

I will go ahead and add him, then you can add him to the Canonical sources, or I can

It's from the The Great Superman Book, so I don't think anyone would object.

I think it's safe to assume that if Fleisher uses a source in TGSB, then we should consider at least that usage of it to be canonical.