#1 Feature request: Comic Categories

[Dennis Pinckard]

I'd like to propose a new feature to be added to
NetComics. Categories for the comics.

I know this could start a categorization war, but I
see that there are several categories that most if not
all of the comics could fall into.

Standard, funny, classic, whatever - (Dilbert,
Garfield, etc)

Editorials

Alternative

Independent

Anime

Misc.

Then the ability to select groups of comics to
retrieve or not retrieve can be simplified by using
groups.

My list of comics that I don't want to get seems to
get longer each release. But the ones I want to get
also grows. Just a taste thing.

Thanks.

[Elliot Glaysher]

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Interesting request, and something I've been thinking about
too.

I see two main problem:
* Most wouldn't fall into one catagory, but I don't think
that it'd be that hard to allow a comic to be in multiple
categories at the same time.
* It'd be hard to make good categories. For example, you
mention "Anime". What genre of anime? Love stories? Giant
robots strips? H-ish stuff like Exploitation Now? This
might be solvable with subcategories like Anime::Love or
Anime::Hentai...

AND EVEN IN THAT...you'd have love stories aimed at males,
females and both. And what if, despite being mostly a love
story, it has *some* H content? (/me thinks about Sabrina
Online (which doesn't have a netcomics module due to how
the author puts the strips up.))

And what would you do for strips whose plot is obviously
based on anime, but who's *drawing*style* is of some other
style? (/me is thinking about Avalon High) Where do these
go?

While you have objective categories like "Editorial", whose
nature cannot be argued, what exactly makes
an "Independant" or "Alternative" comic? I'm not
questioning your judgement; I'd seriously like to know what
you mean by that.

I'm going to have to give some more thought to this...

[Ben Hochstedler]

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Note that this feature is already listed in the TODO file.

To make this feature as flexible as possible, we should
allow comics to be listed in more than one group, and for
the user to be able to define their own groups.