a little something I’ve been working on…
NO, it’s not one of my books.
It’s much, much geekier:
Yep, it’s a google spreadsheet that tracks X-Men title publication over time. WHY? Dear gods, WHY? Well. I dunno. Because I have a thing with comics and a thing with spreadsheets… they were bound to cross eventually, you know? Like starcrossed lovers in the night driving drunken speedboats across a coral reef.
So “What does it DO?”, as my oldest would say.
Well. There’s a dated (year.month) cell at the top – not for every single month, only for every month where an x-title either stops or starts (otherwise it would be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay wider, and I’m trying to preserve space for clarity). So, there is some distortion, but I think the brevity is worth it. Then, if you scroll down the rows you can see the titles (listed chronologically from top to bottom, except for sub-titles/relaunches/volumes which are either under the main title, or in the same row if it’s a replacement).
And, at almost the bottom, there’s a total of how many books were published that month (not counting limiteds, of course). This was probably my main motivation – in addition to wanting a pretty little graphical thing (failed there, I suck at pretty) – I was curious how many X-Titles Marvel published per month. I mean, it seems like a fuckton of them now, right? Evidently it was higher in 2004, etc.
Inquiring minds KIND OF WANT TO KNOW. Maybe. So. There you go.
Disclosure: I may of course be missing things, methods to determine what does and doesn’t count as an ongoing are entirely my own (Like I count the 1st Wolverine limited here but not the billion others because I think the first one was significant), etc. etc.
[Note: I really wish the column & row headers would stay locked, but evidently that doesn't work on embedded spreadsheets. Sorry!]
See, but I really wanted to know how many “female cast” ones existed (or themes?) because of that whole new thing PLUS the author/penciler gender thingie. Pfft. Thanks a lot, ANDY.
The answer is: none. AFAIR, there has never been a “female focused” book. Certainly (I say “certainly” but I could be totally wrong…) there have been casts where the women outnumbered the men….. yes, one of my next projects is to track the team members in the main books over time…. *twitch*
According to the wiki, there has never been a female writer or penciler on Uncanny.
Probably the same for all the other books, Marjorie Liu may be the first woman to write a non-limited series (I know Ann Nocenti (sp?) wrote some limiteds in the 80s).
Hmm, wiki has rosters…so I just need to input those… *twitch*
I like poking the bear.