Forum:Manual of Style/Comics

as of this writing bioware has no public plans to release new comic content. it's time for the wiki to organize its articles to a standard format, which hasn't been done before. we had few items to work with back then, but now certain patterns have emerged from which we can assemble reasonable templates for future works.

credit goes to retired admin User:Commdor for first demonstrating the general idea with Mass Effect: Foundation and related issues.


 * multi-issue comics
 * if a comic title has multiple issues, the main article for it turns into a hub page linking to individual issues. see Mass Effect: Homeworlds and Mass Effect: Foundation. retroactively, this should apply to evolution, redemption, and incursion, all with four issues and eight nice cover artworks each.


 * issue formatting
 * see Mass Effect: Foundation 13 for a sample of how individual issues should look like. retroactively, this should apply to all one-shot comics published as of january 2015.


 * storyline integration
 * to save on article space and pointless edits we've used DPL to simply pull story content from individual issues and display them in the Storyline articles. this drastically cuts down on redundancy and maintenance duties since the story section of issue articles and the storyline sections both deal with the same thing.
 * thusly, this project aims to also set in stone the standard operating procedure of inscribing DPL markup on the storyline articles whenever comic content is concerned.

Comments
if any of you have things to add/remove/modify, sound off below. i'm taking comments for a week starting from timestamp. if what we currently have on supporting content is good enough (either due to absence of dissent or actual comments), i can simply have this passed then i'll write up the requisite legalese in short order. T̴̴͕̲̞̳̖̼̱͒͛̎͒ͫ̃ͧeͩ̈̽̈҉͓̝̰̼̦̫̤̀͠m̫̪̪̯̻͎̫̅̇̓̇͌̚p̸̙̝̓̓͌ͨ͆ͣͥ̂̕o͒̽͐̽͏̞̬̻͕͔͕͚̰͍͠͞ṙ̢̞͚͈̹̰ͨ̓ͭ̈́̌ạ̢̧̪̹̺̺̣̹̲͂͆̏ͪͨ͒ͭř̹͈͜͠y̷͍̻̜̹̼̾̽̈́e̵̹̼̟̦͚͐̈́͌͘d͉̲̣̻͉̱͗̅ḭ̷̻̆͋̆̓̔͝t̨͍̦̫̗͂̅̍̋̆ͩ͝ộ̫̟̬̳̝̲̾ͫ̒̿ͮ̑̚rͯ̎ͨͭ̄̿̽͛҉̠̫̱̠̘̘̲́ͅ7̩̻ͤͩͨ͝͡8̜̣̙͇̻ͨ͛͛̆͒̆̽̒͐͜͡ ͥ̍̉̃̇ͥ̓ͨ͏̕҉̥̹͓̗̤̠̖̤ (talk) 19:42, January 3, 2015 (UTC)