FWIW, my original instinct with the blurb was, since we would have a dedicated topic, we could discuss the series in the totality that it's presented to us by the creators, since the webcomics are fully in canon.

Mind you, that's with me not having actually READ the damn comics, which I'm going to remedy, Real Soon Now.

BUT, aside from having proposed the thread, I sure don't OWN it and have no more say than any other thread participant, aside from weighing in on what I meant in my original proposal.

What with series more fully utilizing the innertubes with webisodes and whatnot, it may be time to set up a new spoiler policy for dealing with creator material meant to be part of the fan experience. As a rule of thumb, I'd say yes to webisodes, web comics, deleted scenes, and no to commentaries and episodes released early on the web (whether official or not), no to non-canonical tie-in materials such as books.

But I'd want to have it be a group consensus, because we want a common ground to discuss stuff on, because fan speculation ideally needs to take into account plot stuff that "officially" happens not on the screen.

What with series more fully utilizing the innertubes with webisodes and whatnot, it may be time to set up a new spoiler policy for dealing with creator material meant to be part of the fan experience. As a rule of thumb, I'd say yes to webisodes, web comics, deleted scenes, and no to commentaries and episodes released early on the web (whether official or not), no to non-canonical tie-in materials such as books.

This is what works in my head, too. Story canon: fair game; Meta knowledge and previews: foul.

I appreciate the spirit of the suggestion about white fonting for a week, but I'm afraid I'd screw it up. My story memory is more narrative than visual. That is, I'm unlikely to remember whether Peter got the glayvin in a web comic or in an episode. I'm just going to remember that Peter has the glayvin.

But...I'm not married to my position. I fancy it. I'd date it. I'd likely neck with it. But we're not serious.

I would just like to make it known how irritating I find it that the writers are now asking me to do homework. Dude! I watched your show! What the hell else do you want, algebra??

IOW, I'm kind of a purist about canonicity. If it ain't on the show, it better not be important for my comprehension of the show, because I ain't readin it. (Also, I mean, hello to the opportunity for error/retcon! Cause we don't have enough continuity errors in an actual show, we need more opportunities for error to creep in.)

Which is nothing about the spoiler policy for this thread or any other, just grumble grumble get offa my lawn.

I'm in the curmudgeon corner with Nutty on this. It's a major peeve I have with Lost, so seeing it happen here makes me cranky.

FWIW, I was pretty resistant to reading the comics (I know this will make me a pariah, but I don't like comics as a medium generally - we will see if Whedon makes me change my mind). Anyway, the comics take NO time to read. If you have a decent internet connection, all told, it might take you 15 minutes to read it online.

The 10th wonder also posts descriptions of the comic every time (if you would prefer that). They are pretty attentive to spoiler warnings, so you can subscribe to the blog and listen to the podcast and not be spoiled until you get to a clearly identified SPOILER section.

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I would just like to make it known how irritating I find it that the writers are now asking me to do homework. Dude! I watched your show! What the hell else do you want, algebra??

Sits in the corner with Nutty and Sheryl.

Seriously. Plus, I love the idea of comics. I want to want to read them. But everytime I've read a comic or graphic novel that I thought would bring me into the fold, I've been disappointed. We're talking Gaiman and Whedon, whose stuff I should adore, and all I can work up is a meh. So I'm kind of afraid that if I go read the Heroes comic, it'll put me off the show altogether.

This is not to argue for or against the white font thing, because I totally don't care one way or the other if comic stuff is white or black font.

I love comics in general, and I love the idea of these webcomics in particular, but I am far too lazy to actually go and read them. (And it's got nothing to do with how long they are or anything -- I'm just constitutionally unable to keep up with ancillary materials unless I can do it completely passively. Are the Heroes comics available as an rss feed anywhere?)

See my link and do 10th wonder RSS. They put text descriptions up every time.

They put text descriptions up every time.

But not the comics themselves, which is what I'm really looking for.

I did see the link, le nubian, and appreciate it. I may even try it out from time to time, but reading text of comics seems even more like homework to me. I did go to heroeswiki to find out who Hana is, as much of that conversation was going right over my head, and may pop back there if I feel the need.

I don't mean to be a whiny about the comics. I understand that dislike of them is one of my quirks that I either work around or don't. I'm hopeful that the patentable Buffista snarkiness may make getting the info here more fun than homework. If not, that's ok too.