Inclusion debates/'Sleeze Brothers' comics
So some time ago, I tried to make a page on the brief 'Sleeze Brothers' comic book which was printed after their appearance in the DWM comic strip Follow That TARDIS!. I can't remember where, but Czech objected to this (even as I had marked it as what would now be considered "invalid") as the comic apparently didn't even justify having a page on TARDIS. It was to be seen as just about as relevant to the DWU as Cyberon.
A lot has happened since then. "Canon" is gone, we're no longer an "Index File," and it's safe to say we're a more healthy website.
And so I think it's worth re-opening the idea that Sleeze Brothers the 6-issue-comic-series not only deserves a page on this wikia, but it might even be totally valid.
What is important to recognize is that the Sleeze Brothers are much more like Abslom Daak (a character who was supposed to exit connections with Who comics to be his own thing while still being the same person) than Death's Head (a character from the Transformers comic who did a series of "crossovers" with the DWM universe). The brothers first appeared in a Doctor Who Magazine strip entitled Follow that TARDIS!, and then they spread into their mini-series.
If anything, this is extremely close to how we see Vince Cosmos -- who was introduced in Hang onto Yourself and then continued to be explored in the spin-off audio Vince Cosmos: Glam Rock Detective.
Let's go down the four-little-rules:
| 1 | Only stories count. |
It's a story of sorts, yes.
| 2 | A story that isn't commercially licensed by all of the relevant copyright holders doesn't count. |
Since DWM and the spin-off series were both printed by Marvel comics, we can presume that there weren't any licensing problems in the long run...
| 3 | A story must be officially released to be valid. |
Yea, it was released.
| 4 | If a story was intended to be set outside the DWU, then it's probably not allowed. But a community discussion will likely be needed to make a final determination. |
For this I'm just gonna steal User:Fwhiffahder's quote about Vince Cosmos. "It tallies with the characters' other depictions, with nothing indicating it's not the same universe."
Unless there's some huge unseen difference between this and Glam Rock Detective, I think the comic series must be valid.
