I don't feel strongly about the comics-as-spoiler question at all, but Sophia sums up what I do want, I think.

It's not a bright line, but the issue is not exactly a problem that needs solving. Muddling through has been fine so far.

So in Other Media, the policy is:

Please use spoiler font for new releases until after the weekend following release.

I would be fine making this a blanket spoiler policy for the board regarding comics.

I feel like board culture mostly leans towards spoilerfonting upcoming HSQ moments so that the comically inclined can watch the non-readers capslock in amazement, but I don't think we need to codify that.

I don't feel a burning need to address comics differently than we have been. As someone who doesn't follow comics much I tend to find the bits of discussion I've paid attention to more informative than spoilery. My $ .02.

I don't read the comics but I would be quite surprised if anyone who follows the MCU hasn't seen other comics points elsewhere in the wild. Heaven knows it's all over the other boards I read. I'm find with no spoiler font on comics.

I'm find with no spoiler font on comics.

Me too. Especially since there's no guarantee that what happened in the comics will happen that way, or at all, in the MCU.

Seriously, what happens in MCU can be radically different from the comics, especially with characters that have been in print for 40 years or more: origin stories change, plot points differ by 180 degrees, it's more like hearing about an AU of what's occurring on screen. I'm more or less current with the main Marvel comics right now and I find them so confusing, anyway, with the way they keep rebooting and pulling in older story lines to regurgitate them that it makes no difference if I know the comics or not. I treat the TV/movie versions as just one more take on where they started from in the Marvel universe.

I am thinking that we are all good people with discretion we trust each other-- we don't have a lot of newcomers-- perhaps the comics policy should be that people discussing comics should use their discretion to not spoil people who do not read the comics? Which is sort of what we do anyway?

This.

I plan on infrequenting the MCU thread and don't really keep up on the comics, but I'm not worried that something terribly spoilery will come out from them. The MCU liberally changes comic canon anyway, so there's always a decent chance that they'll pivot and go a different direction on anything that comes up.

(I'm certainly hoping so, in re: Civil War)

I could imagine someone wanting to stay unspoiled for Bucky. I'm not sure how you do that on the Internets, but I can't really think of another similar-HSQ canonical thing.

And the thing is, I (as a non-reader of comics) got spoiled for Bucky by someone making a very oblique comment - something to the effect of "Since I read all the comics, I won't be watching for the reveal of the identity of the Winter Soldier, I'll be watching for the reveal of Cap's reaction." My brain said, Oh OK, Winter Soldier must be Bucky in the comics. No one else would rate a major reaction, not even Red Skull undead.

But I didn't resent the spoiling, because I did figure there was that chance of something being re-imagined out of comic-canon by the studio and because generally speaking I don't mind getting a briefing from readers of comics on various aspects of what can be going on with the story. So I guess my point is, that I am content to continue trusting to the discretion of readers.