Forum:Comic strip, comic story, comic

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In a similar vein to Forum:Audio play, audio drama, audio story, I need to move for standardization on disambiguation in comic titles.

For instance, we now have

• The Lodger (comic story)

but

• Voyager (comic strip)

And this is making the bot's life miserable. It forces a minimum of two runs, or some very clever bot programming, when it could all be so straightforward. I think it should be comic story, becuase, well, that's what it is. Comic strip defines the medium, whereas comic story is more accurately used with the title of a story in the comic strip medium. Moreover, all the categories use "comic story". Since this is such a minor issue, I think it's one in which a poll might serve us well. (Also, I just kinda want to test the poll command.)

<poll> How should we disambiguate: comic strip or comic story? comic strip comic story other (define below) </poll> Note that the results of this poll will not obligate you personally to change anything. You are not voting to give yourself more work. I'll change things on the basis of this poll, which closes one week from its start date.
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I think 'comic story' works best, because 'comic' seems a little vague to me and 'comic strip' makes me think of Garfield and the like. --Bold Clone 22:23, February 4, 2011 (UTC)

I would tend to support the original source description as featured on both covers and contents pages which is 'comic strip' in both Doctor Who Magazine and Doctor Who Adventures. Additionally I find those involved in the making of these stories refer to themselves as 'comic strip artists' not 'comic story artists' The Librarian 23:07, February 4, 2011 (UTC)

The problem, though, is that with the advent of IDW, we have to come up with a good trans-Atlantic term. As we can see from BC's contribution, "comic strip" definitely connotes something different in the US than the UK. In no way is The Forgotten a comic strip. It's a comic book. So we need a term that works, regardless of the length of the story. Because we have both comic books and comic strips in the sequential art history of DW, "comic story" works to cover both sub-genres.
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