what is the point of tagging comics with 4 panels just because they have 4 panels? Why would you search for that? Why not tag 2 panels, or 6? 4koma exists as a format, like the difference between comics and manga. comics with 4 panels are not following any convention, they just have 4.
I do kind of agree with this, tagging panel counts unless it’s part of a recognized format seems a bit arbitrary. On the other hand, 2 panels, regardless of arrangement, also feels like “a format” to me because it’ll tend to be like “setup | action”. (There’s also the [typically explicit] “
instant loss 2koma” genre.)
2, 3, and 4 are by far the most-tagged, and those few seem like attributes people might use to identify images.
Move the comics to comics and alias “4 panels” so people can find 4koma, or delete it entirely because 4koma are koma and 4 panneled comics are comics. But just look at the tags, they’re completely mixed together.
4koma
could imply 4 panel comic
, making it a subset. If you want 4komas you search 4koma
, if you want any kind you search 4 panel comic
, if you want non-4komas you search 4 panel comic, -4koma
Oh wait, that’s how it already is, except for the missing retroactive application of the tag implications.
I’m not even writing this sarcastically, I literally wrote out that suggestion before noticing it’s already set up that way.
If anything: when you don’t remember anything useful other than the count of panels. That’s 1 of the purposes of keywords.
Mmm, true…
(How can a 4 panel comic not be short?) even though, according to implications, 4koma is actually a subcategory of them.
That’s “short” as in “one-offs/gag comics” as opposed to “continuing storyline where each installment happens to have 4 panels”, I guess. Could be better-described.
I’m seeing a number of posts tagged
4 panel comic that I wouldn’t even describe as “comics”, more like “4 alternate versions/parts-of-a-sequence assembled into one image” (explicit ones)