Talk:Nexus (comics)

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Contents 1 Baron's work on Nexus 2 Plexus 3 Nexus bibliography and numbering 4 Publication history is missing a lot 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Nexuscomic.jpg

[edit] Baron's work on Nexus

Do we have a source for this? "Baron's work on Nexus responded to the world he was writing in; armor merchants overwhelm media channels with advertising. A great library, perhaps presaging Internet, controls the universe's memory of history" It seems POV unless it was a quote from Baron. Morphh 19:08, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plexus

Not having read Executioner's Song, I must ask if Plexus was explicitly identified as "African-American" in the comic. I think it would be a bit odd, given that the USA is not a nation in the 25th century. - Frankie

Good point :-)... I have the comic at home and I'll try to take a look. However, fiction is written in an Out-of-Universe fashion so I think it is fine to say he is African-American, however, the sentence should be rewritten as Out-of-Universe - "Plexus was illustrated as an African-American anti-Nexus character..." Morphh ^(talk) 18:15, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Good point indeed... It is the trouble I have with the term African-American. When making historical or future references, an ethnocentric tendency is to use "African-American" even when there is no America or the black person has no relation to America--like Nelson Mandela or an Australian Aborigine (if that term is still used in Australia). I am a black American, and I don't like being called African-American. A friend once had a laugh in an art history class when a fellow student asked why Renaissance artist Giotto used an African-American in one of his paintings. I think it will create confusion for historians when people of this age automatically say African-American when they just mean a person who seems to be descended from dark-skinned Africans. Emanimal 11:38, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nexus bibliography and numbering

This article could use a chronological listing of Nexus series. Additionally, when the series resumes shortly the numbering will begin with issue #99. Can anyone supply a listing of which mini series issues correspond to which issues? Were these issues given whole numbers inside? Nyutko 22:52, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

some were later on. They apparently retroactively assigned numbers to the earlier series. These are them: Nexus: Origin (#81); Alien Justice #1-3 (#82-84); Wages of Sin #1-4 (#85-88); Executioner's Song #1-4 (#89-92); GodCon #1, 2 (#93-94); Nightmare in Blue #1-4 (#95-98). I don't think they started dual numbers until Exectioner's Song. --Emb021 15:16, 25 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Publication history is missing a lot

Reading this article, you would never guess that almost half the original Nexus series was drawn by someone other than Steve Rude.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Nexuscomic.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:03, 2 January 2008 (UTC)