User blog:StoryGirl83/Images

As comics are a visual media, there are a lot of images. As they are also a for profit media, there is a limit to how much these images can be used. We cannot post full pages here unless Zenescope or one of the artists or colorists posted them online first. Covers, ads, and title pages are the exception as best I can tell.

I am hoping to get at least one image of each character per issue they are in posted in their gallery, but there is a limit to that. You don't want to ever post every image of a character, unless there is only one image per issue or that character is only in one issue and only has two or three images. An example of this would be Billie. There is a photo of her in The Sourcebook and one image of her in Unnatural Resources. An example of the second is Brittany Reynolds. She is only in two images in No Rest for the Wicca. There are not currently any good examples that I can think of that only have a few images over the span of one or two issue. Victor has been in one issue, but in that issue he's in ten images on three pages. . . and that's if you don't count his arm in one of them. Melinda Warren has been in two issue, but while she's in a lot of images, most of them are from a distance or her back is shown. I think there are four images were her face is decently visible from relatively close up. Sam is also only in two issues, but he's in six images that I can identify. Maybe he's the best example.

The galleries of the more common characters will grow large quickly, even if they are limited to one or two images per issue. Some of these images should be posted in the summaries of different sections, some on their page and some on the issue page. If you absolutely want to include an image, consider how many images of that character have already been uploaded from that issue. Make sure that particular image hasn't been uploaded already and if it has consider which one is the better quality. Once you've done this, think about if your image might be a great image to use in telling the story of what happened to that character in the issue it's from or even the story of the issue over all.

Some images might be good in more than one place, but if an image is on the issue page and on the main part of the characters page and on the page for an object used in the image, you might want to reconsider putting it in the gallery if there is already an image in the gallery for that issue.

Locations, objects, and other miscellaneous things should be treated with these same basic rules.