Board Thread:Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170322025232/@comment-4028641-20170322032439

Now the problem is that there are several non-DWU stories included in this DWU story. The following non-DWU comics are shown, in their entirety:


 * High Noon Tex
 * Here's Death's Head! (Dragon's Claws 5
 * The Deadliest Game (Marvel Comics Presents 76)
 * Priceless! (The Sensational She-Hulk 24)
 * Death's Head Revisited (Death's Head 1)
 * Contractual Obligations (Death's Head 2)
 * High Stakes (Death's Head 3)
 * Plaguedog! (Death's Head 4)
 * Sudden Impact! (Death's Head 6)
 * Shot By Both Sides (Death's Head 7)
 * Clobberin' Time! (Death's Head 9)
 * The Cast Iron Contract (Death's Head 10)

While a few of these are just put at the end with no real context, most of these are played with a direct point. "Here's a story that shows this or that," etc. The main plot often directly bleeds into them via extra panels not included in the original publications. In issue 12, Death's Head directly transitions from a flashback set in Party Animals to one in Priceless! within about two pages. Extra moments from both stories are shown within the same timeframe. Can you really cut out one of those two without disrupting the flow of the storyline?

There's two ways to look at this:


 * 1) We can separate all of these stories from the narrative of the comic itself, allowing for us to cover the main story but not the flashbacks.
 * 2) We can not justify separating the flashbacks from the main story, and all of the above comics must now be treated as valid sources.

I'm leaning towards the second option.