Continuity Pages have been added for DC's Outsiders.
6 February 2004
The Continuity Pages for Sandman and JLA have been updated.
5 February 2004
The already massive DC Universe Chronology has been updated.
Additional information on the Earth X trilogy has been added to the Marvels Continuity Page.
The Preacher Continuity Page has been updated.
4 February 2004
ContinuityPages.com was -- once again -- more popular in January than in any previous month in its history.
Thank you sincerely from all of us at ContinuityPages.com.
As part of our open policy, you can see our statistics through the About button in the navigation bar.
2 February 2004
Updates have been made to various Continuity Pages.
Those of Teen Titans have the most new graphics and information.
The current eras for Daredevil, Fantastic Four, Superman, and Spider-Man have been updated as well.
The various Ultimate Marvel pages have also seen some updates.
26 January 2004
Updates have been made to various pages, including the Continuity Pages for Daredevil.
The America's Best Comics Chronology has been updated.
Updates have also been made to most of the Continuity Pages for America's Best Comics.
4 January 2004
An Ultimate Marvel Chronology has been added.
Updates have also been made to most of the Ultimate Marvel Continuity Pages.
2 January 2004
It's a Marvel New Year, as every single Marvel Continuity Page gets an update, including:
Avengers (much new material),
Daredevil (considerably expanded with a new page),
Punisher (considerably updated),
X-Men (considerably updated),
Spider-Man (newly a mini-site with new material),
Fantastic Four,
Marvels,
Captain America,
Iron Man (entirely new),
Nick Fury (entirely new),
Thor (entirely new),
Thanos (entirely new), and
The Hulk.
Keep in mind that almost all of these pages are still works in progress.
1 January 2004
New graphics have been added to the Continuity Page for The Authority.
31 December 2003
ContinuityPages.com would like to wish its readers a happy New Year.
ContinuityPages.com would like to wish its readers a merry Christmas or a happy holiday for all those of other faiths.
23 December 2003
In November, ContinuityPages.com received its 400,000th visitor since its launch in August 2002.
See "About" in the menu bar for more details.
As always, sincere thanks go to our readers.
Julian Darius's Annotations to Marvel 1602 have been expanded to include annotations for #4 (published yesterday).
Annotations to the first three issues have been updated.
The annotations altogether run almost 25,000 words, with the new #4 clocking in at over 2,800.
12 November 2003
Julian Darius's Annotations to Marvel 1602 have been revised and annotations to #3 added.
Sorry it took so long to produce the annotations to #3 (unlike those to #1 and #2, which were posted the day after the issue's release), but the annotations to #3 are still out before #4 is published -- and they are also very long (the longest first draft yet).
Watch for the annotations to #4 -- and tell your friends!
11 November 2003
The Continuity Page for Animal Man, already the best on the web, has again been updated lengthy new introductions and information.
11 November 2003
We here at ContinuityPages.com would like to wish you a happy Veteran's Day.
10 November 2003
The Continuity Page for Animal Man has again been updated, including new info and the rest of the covers.
9 November 03
A new format for columns, reviews, articles, and annotations has been created. Though not yet applied to all documents, you can see it as it has been applied to Sequential Culture.
6 November 03
The navigation bar at the top of the screen has been updated, with new and revised pages of information about the site.
5 November 03
A Vertigo Chronology has been added.
This large, hyperlinked table covers the publications of DC's Vertigo imprint, organized by cover-date and by type.
The Continuity Page for Animal Man has been greatly enhanced yet again, including the addition of tons of graphics. The Animal Man page is now the best Animal Man webpage in the world, an honor shared by an ever-increasing number of Continuity Pages.
4 November 2003
The Continuity Page for Animal Man has been greatly enhanced, including the addition of a great deal of text.
3 November 2003
A Continuity Page has been created for Animal Man.
Neil Gaiman Chronology
An annotated table displaying the work of none other than Neil Gaiman (whose works include The Sandman and several collaborations with Dave McKean) in categorized, chronological fashion.
25 October 03
The Continuity Pages for Superman have been updated.
25 October 03
It's a bit belated, but it's worth noting: ContinuityPages.com had its highest month ever in September, receiving 37,962 visitors.
(For more information, see The History of The Continuity Pages.)
We here at ContinuityPages.com wish to thank you sincerely ... this labor of love is pointless without you.
25 October 03
In case you didn't notice, the "regular features" boxes at right (planned for most of a year) were added today.
DC Universe Chronology
Oh, boy ... this may take a bit of time to load but is really worth it. This hyperlinked table includes the major events of the post-Crisis DC Universe, organized by cover-date and by character (or family thereof).
Late September Reviews (Bryan Miller's New Comics Day #5)
Bryan examines Batman #619 and The Flash #201 and #202 -- and offers a short essay looking back on Crossgen's in light of the company's rumored-to-be-imminent bankruptcy.
29 September 03
The Continuity Pages for The Sandman have been updated.
Wednesday, 24 September (Bryan Miller's New Comics Day #4)
Smart reviews -- from praise to pan -- of True Story Swear To God #6, Ultimate X-Men #37, Ultimate Spider-Man #46, A Sort of Homecoming #1, New X-Men #146, and Ultimate Six #1.
In August, ContinuityPages.com received its 300,000th visitor since getting its own domain in mid-to-late August of the previous year.
We're now ranked (according to alexa.com) in the top 3% or so of all websites worldwide.
Thank you from us here at ContinuityPages.com for making this labor of love such a success.
What we do is pointless without you.
It's 6:26 am and I'm finally done annotating Marvel 1602 #2 (released yesterday).
(Scroll down if you're looking for #2 -- it's just after #1 on the same page.)
I've added over 4,000 words to the document tonight, and I think it's time to sleep a little ... before waking up to teach college students Adrian Tomine's Optic Nerve.
Hope you like the annotations, and let me know what you think.
Today, ContinuityPages.com would like to express our sympathy for all of the lives touched, in so many ways, by 9/11.
May we never forget and may such horror never be permitted again, here or anywhere else in the world.
10 September 03
The Continuity Page for Batman has been updated with new graphics and new information.
7 September 03
Julian Darius's Annotations to Marvel 1602 have been updated based on a new reading of the issue and on additional research.
Watch for annotations to the second issue, to appear shortly after its publication this Wednesday!
6 September 03
The Continuity Page for Mike Mignola's Hellboy has been updated.
5 September 03
Julian Darius's Annotations to Marvel 1602 have been updated with some new information on the Templars and Mystery Plays.
Watch for annotations to the second issue, to appear shortly after its publication this Wednesday!
5 September 03
In addition to several minor updates to various Continuity Pages, a Continuity Page for Mike Mignola's Hellboy has been added.
31 August 03
August Comics (Bryan Miller's New Comics Day #3)
Smash reviews of Teenagers from Mars #7, Y: The Last Man #14, Daredevil #50, Ultimate Spider-Man #46, and Batman #618. Plus an... er... expiremental review of Wolverine #4.
31 August 03
The Continuity Pages have received several updates.
X-Men has been made a mini-site with new information and graphics.
Marvels, Grendel, 100 Bullets, and Hulk.
27 August 03
The Continuity Page for the French series Les Cités Obscures has been greatly updated.
24 August 03
The Continuity Page for Will Eisner's The Spirit has been updated, including new information and graphics on The New Adventures.
Writer Julian Darius wishes to thank Bill O'Brien, who was incredibly kind to e-mail missing covers and information for the series.
Thanks greatly, Bill O'Brien!
24 August 03
The Continuity Page for Wonder Woman has been updated with more graphics.
The Continuity Page for
Batman has received a new page for the
Inter-Robin Era (1989-1990) -- and the Batman pages are now premiering the new header for The Continuity Pages. Check it out!
The History of The Continuity Pages has been updated with July usage data.
July 2003 was the greatest month in ContinuityPages.com's history, with 36,697 visitors, 21,064 unique visitors, and some 1,057,711 hits (for what it's worth).
All of us at ContinuityPages.com wish to thank you, our readers, for giving us this wonderful anniversary present!
20 August 03
The Continuity Page for Garth Ennis's Preacher has been reposted.
It was strangely coming up as blank, and site owner Julian Darius wishes to thank Gary Groves and Jason Hart, both of whom were kind enough to e-mail about the problem.
The cause of the problem was probably a severing of the data stream when the page was last posted.
19 August 03
Continuing our celebration of one year at the ContinuityPages.com address, we are proud to announce the addition of a new review column, Bryan Miller's New Comics Day.
It can now be accessed through the new REVIEWS section, which also features Matt Martin's Optic Verve.
Summer Comics (Bryan Miller's New Comics Day #1)
Reviews of some of this summer's comics, including Enemy Ace: War In Heaven, Born #1, Ultimate Spider-Man #43, New X-Men #143, Superman: Birthright #1, and The Incredible Hulk #55.
18 August 03
As we near the one-year anniversary of the launching of ContinuityPages.com as its own domain,
a separate section has been added for REVIEWS and new navigational elements (made with Macromedia Flash!) have been added, including a revised banner at the top of the page.
14 August 03
Annotations have been added for the newly-published Marvel 1602.
This is a major addition already of considerably length.
The mini-series has been added to the Marvels continuity page.
13 August 03
The continuity page for Tom Strong has been considerably updated,
as has that for The Hulk.
Since its addition a week and a half ago, I've been quietly updating in some way almost every day the page for the French series Les Cités Obscures.
Thought you might want to know.
The History of the Continuity Pages has been updated with May and June 2003 usage data.
In May 2003, ContinuityPages.com passed the 200,000 visits mark.
13 July 03
The page for Marc-Antoine Mathieu, the great French comics creator who has changed the medium itself but who is all but unknown in the states (and not all that famous in France, either), has been updated.
Expanding the material on French comics already on this site, and because Julian Darius is in France,
a new page has been created for the series Les Cités Obscures,
by Benoît Peeters (writing) and François Schuiten (art).
Comics Published on 7 May (Optic Verve #34)
Dexterous reviews by Matt this time include Venom #1, Alias #22, The Authority (vol. 2) #1, Exiles #26, and the 25-cent Uncanny X-Men #423.
11 May 03
X-Men has been updated with new information.
As has Daredevil.
Having (understandably, I now think) pissed off Doug Wheeler, who seems like a very nice guy, with the smart-ass comment that substituted for an introduction,
I've added a complete introduction to Swamp Thing's historic Jamie Delano, Rick Veitch, and Doug Wheeler Era.
The Batman mini-site has been updated, with a new page added for Hush and the present era, as well as two new (admittedly tentative) pages for the "New Gotham" era that followed No Man's Land.
Cerebus has a newly revised and expanded introduction (that all need to know to be educated readers of graphic literature).
Starman and Doom Patrol have been updated.
With the three new Batman mini-site pages, ContinuityPages.com now has 200 pages.
Starman / JSA has become a mini-site with new information.
The Authority, the best Authority site on the web, has received considerable updates, particularly to the present era.
A page for Max Allan Collins has been added.
Spider-Man has been updated with graphics to Blue.
Wonder Woman has been updated with new graphics, some new info, and a new mini-page.
Fables has been updated with new graphics.
Both Justice League of America and 100 Bullets has been updated with some new information and a new graphic.
In addition, small updates have occurred to a number of pages.
ContinuityPages.com has 196 pages (138 Continuity Pages, 37 columns, 3 articles, 4 annotations, 4 chronologies, 2 interviews, 7 index pages, and a history page).
4 April 03
Comics Published on 2 April (Optic Verve #29)
Matt reviews the first Tsunami releases from Marvel -- Wolverine: X-Isle #1 and Sentinel #1 -- then reviews, in addition, Action Comics #802 and Ultimate Spider-Man #39.
2 April 03
The History of the ContinuityPages.com has been updated with March statistics.
Thank you for your continued interest, and for spreading the news about this site.
Continuity Pages have been added for
Y: The Last Man and
Fables.
Updates have occurred to
Spider-Man (some graphics and detailed insults of Straczynski's first storyline) and
Transmetropolitan (some graphics).
Comics Published on 12 March (Optic Verve #26)
This time, Matt offers smart reviews of Kia Asamiya's Batman: Child of Dreams, The Ultimates #9, and Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules #3.
Liefeld fans rejoice!
Continuity Pages for Supreme and Youngblood have been added.
(Actually, the Liefeld reference is a joke, since these pages focus on Alan Moore's history-making work on those titles.)
10 Mar 03
Comics Published on 5 March (Optic Verve #25)
ANNIVERSARY ISSUE! For his 25th column, Matt offers particularly clever reviews of Captain America: What Price Glory? #1, Jeffrey Brown's Clumsy (published by Top Shelf), and The Couriers (scripted by Brian Wood).
The History of The Continuity Pages has been updated with February statistics.
Since its launch in mid-to-late August 2002, ContinuityPages.com has already received over 100,000 visitors -- 109,887 to be precise.
6 Mar 03
A number of small additions have been made, including hyperlinks to and from Matt Martin's reviews,
miscellaneous changes all over,
and the addition of graphics to Ultimate Miscellany.
Updates have occurred to Swamp Thing's Alan Moore Era (some images).
This site now features 58 Continuity Pages proper, plus 64 mini-site pages, 22 Optic Verve columns, 6 Sequential Culture columns, 3 articles, 1 annotation, 2 chronologies, 2 intra/VIEWs, this page, and the history page -- making a total of 160 distinct pages.
18 Feb 03
Updates have occurred to The Transformers' Dreamwave Era (including many beautiful images),
Daredevil (some info and graphics in the two Marvel Knights eras), and
G.I. Joe (some graphics and a bit of info).
In addition, "'flinches and daunted awe' -- Being an Historical Collection of Introductions to The Continuity Pages" (formerly a separate page) has been consolidated into The History of The Continuity Pages.
Comics Published on 12 February (Optic Verve #22)
In this one, Matt gives lengthy attention to Avatar's Alan Moore offering, The Courtyard #1, and also reviews H-E-R-O #1, Lady Death #1, the two-issue JSA: The Liberty Files limited series from a few years ago, and My Uncle Jeff.
Comics Published on 29 January (Optic Verve #20)
Matt deftly reviews The Truth: Red, White and Black #3, Gotham Central #3, The Ultimate War #3, The Flash #194, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation #1.
Comics Published on 15 January (Optic Verve #19)
Back from his hiatus, Matt overwhelms us with reviews of The Punisher #20, The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules #1, The Filth #7, Ultimate Spider-Man #34 and #35, Superman: The 10-Cent Adventure, Batman #610, The Ultimates #8, G.I. Joe: Frontline #3, Mek #3, and Vertigo Pop: London #3.
24 Dec 02
Updates have occurred to Superman (tons info and some graphics), including two new pages, and
and Wonder Woman (some graphics).
Comics Published on 4 December (Optic Verve #17)
This week, Matt reviews The Mighty Thor #57, Ultimate Spider-Man #32, Ultimate War #1, G.I. Joe: Frontline #2, Uncanny X-Men #416, Gotham Central #1, and Eden’s Trail #2.
6 Dec 02
Updates have occurred to Superman (info and graphics), including the creation of new portions of the mini-site.
4 Dec 02
Comics Published on 27 November (Optic Verve #16)
This week, Matt reviews Hellblazer #178, Three Days in Europe #1 and Queen & Country: Declassified #1 (both published by Oni Press), Batman #609, Fantastic Four #63, X-Statix #5, and The Flash #192.
Comics Published on 20 November (Optic Verve #15)
This week, Matt reviews Daredevil #39, Ultimate Spider-Man #31, Moonstone Noir: Boston Blackie (published by Moonstone Books), Y: The Last Man #5, Incredible Hulk #47, and the much-hyped The Truth: Red, White and Black #1.
23 Nov 02
Superman has been updated, with all new sections on John Byrne's era and on the Our Worlds at War crossover. Things are still fairly sketchy with Superman's Continuity Page, but these things take time.
Comics Published on 13 November (Optic Verve #14)
Lots o' Vertigo this week as Matt reviews Ultimate X-Men #24, Mek #1, War Story: The Reivers, Daredevil / Bullseye: The Target #1, Vertigo Pop: London #1, and Fables #7.
17 Nov 02
The Continuity Pages proper has 58 entires and 42 sub-pages (parts of mini-sites).
18 columns, 3 articles, 1 annotation, 2 chronologies, and 2 INTRA/VIEWs are available.
1 additional document can be found with the columns and 1 on the main index page.
7 main (section header) pages and the messageboard are also available.
This site, at over 100 megabytes, thus has a total of 136 separate informational pages for the study of graphic literature.
The Transformers Continuity Page has now been made a mini-site. Many updates have been made reflecting the new trade paperbacks and the U.K. series.
5 Nov 02
Comics Published on 30 October (Optic Verve #12)
Here, Matt reviews St. Swithin's Day (published by Oni Press), Paradigm #2, The Flash #191 and The Avengers #59 (both written by Geoff Johns), Usagi Yojimbo #61, 30 Days of Night #3, and Hellblazer #177.
Comics Published on 23 October (Optic Verve #11)
Matt reviews Fantastic Four #62, the New X-Men Vol. 1 hardcover, The Hood #6, (Oni Press's) One Plus One #2, and the much-publicized premiere of Jim Lee on Batman with #608.
A broken link has been fixed on The Age of Bronze Continuity Page.
18 Oct 02
Comics Published on 16 October (Optic Verve #10)
Here, Matt reviews (Kevin Smith's) Spider-Man and the Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do #3, (Grant Morrison's) The Filth #5, New X-Men #133, Daredevil #38, Blue Monday: Dead Man’s Party (published by Oni Press), Ultimate X-Men #23, and Incredible Hulk #46.
10 Oct 02
Comics Published on 9 October (Optic Verve #9)
Following a "comics I used to like" theme, Matt reviews Hunter: The Age of Magic #16, Strangers in Paradise #53, and Bone #49; Matt also more favorably reviews Powers #24, American Splendor: Unsung Hero #3, Fables #6.
7 Oct 02
Comics Published on 2 October (Optic Verve #8)
Matt carefully reviews Uncanny X-Men #414, (Garth Ennis's) The Punisher #15-16, Holliday #1 (published by Saddle Tramp Press), Noble Causes Vol. 2 #1, Ultimate Spider-Man #28, Apache Skies #3, Ultimate X-Men #22, Detective Comics #775, and (Kerry Callen's) Halo and Sprocket #3 (published by Amaze Ink).
27 Sept 02
Comics Published on 25 September (Optic Verve #7)
More copious reviews -- now with an added line listing creator information! In this one, Matt rails against Diamond and reviews Avengers #58, Fantastic Four #61, Fight for Tomorrow #1, Ultimate Adventures #1, Marville #1, Jason and the Argobots #2, Flash #190, Transmetropolitan #60, and Batman #607.
Comics Published on 18 September (Optic Verve #6)
Jesus! What's he trying to do, put all the other reviewers out of business? In this one, Matt praises Brian K. Vaughn, criticizes Brian Michael Bendis, and reviews the new Captain Marvel #1, The Hood #5, Daredevil #37, Catwoman Secret Files and Origins #1, Tom Strong's Terrific Tales #4, Fables #5, G.I. Joe #10, Hairball: A Cal McDonald Mystery (by Steve Niles), Simpsons Comics #74, Uncanny X-Men #413 (written by Chuck Austen), One Plus One #1, Incredible Hulk #45, Y: The Last Man #3, American Splendor: Unsung Hero #2, and The Absolute Authority hardcover.
Comics Published on 11 September (Optic Verve #5)
Oh, God! Does this man sleep? Matt reviews New X-Men #132, Hopeless Savages: Ground Zero #3, Paradigm #1, Powers #23, Gotham Girls #2, Vertigo Pop: Tokyo #3, Hunter: The Age of Magic #15, and The Filth #4.
Sequential Culture #2: Reviews out of Time, Part 1
He doesn't know how long they've been sitting at the drug store, but here Julian reviews his new discoveries: Fantastic Four #1, The Incredible Hulk #1, and Amazing Fantasy #15.
4 Sept 02
INTRA/VIEW: Rich Johnston
In the first INTRA/VIEW for The Continuity Pages, Darius interviews Rich Johnston, the comics gossip columnist.
Sequential Culture #1: The Cult of the Writer
The lengthy first column, focusing on the cult of the writer in contemporary comic books, its history, its alternatives, and its implications.
18 Aug 02
Comics Published on 7 August (Optic Verve #1)
In this one, Matt reviews The Path #5, 100 Bullets #37, Vertigo Pop: Tokyo #2, The Crusades #18, Ultimate Spider-Man #25, and Detective Comics #773. Wheh!
PAST BANNERS:
The original banner for The Continuity Pages, created in 2001 while The Continuity Pages was still a part of PersianCaesar.com.
The first banner created using Macromedia Flash, premiering in November 2002.
The revised banner, which replaced the previous one on 18 November 2002.
The final banner for ContinuityPages.com, which replaced the previous one on 18 August 2003. This one was created to include the new "reviews" section.
"flinches and daunted awe" -- Being an Historical Collection of Introductions to The Continuity Pages
Congratulations! You're here at the genesis of
ContinuityPages.com, the new website for comic book
scholars, afficianados, and outright junkies. Why is this site so good at its launch? Well,
it just spun off of PersianCaesar.com,
where I hosted it. Well, no more! It's too big for that -- too great to be contained!
We've already augmented things here with this spanking new design (by me), by signing a
reviewer (my good friend, and all around intelligent guy, Matt Martin), and by the addition of a
regular column (details to come)! So thanks for visiting, and let us know how we're doing!
We hope to keep you coming back for years to come!
Original Introduction to The Continuity Pages while at persiancaesar.com (2001)
The propensity for continuity in American comic books, building since the
late 1950s, has led to narratives of inordinate length, however episodic they remain. Moreover,
groups of these long narratives interlock, existing within the same fictional world. Everything
from spin-off series and annuals to specials and the increasingly popular mini-series seem to
occur within one long narrative, yet these smaller narratives retain a sort of separateness that
can be problematic. When a story from one narrative may continue into another, this entire
structure can elicit flinches and daunted awe from even seasoned veterans. The Continuity Pages,
authored by Julian Darius, attempt to reveal the shape of this massive structure, even in parts.
