Talk:Witchblade

Unclear

The phrase "A male aspect created to act as a balance, which must have a female as a host." is unclear. A male aspect WAS created...? Or is this saying the withblade IS a male aspect? Swrdfghtr 22:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

the Witchblade is a male offspring of the Darkness and the Angelus... that's it.

Issues

I think that the section "Issue events breakdown" can be moved to another page. Which could allow more information included, reduce de size of the main article, and remove potential spoilers from the main page. Comments? --Guille2015 03:28, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

It also needs to be made NPOV.--Kross^Talk 12:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

A new article called 'List of Witchblade Issues' should be created and have the summaries moved there. LyMinh 01:53, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

Yumi picture...

That Yumi character is supposed to be 15? You can see her butt in the accompanying image. Does anyone else think this is a bit much? Do we need to have it in the article?

I think you're over-reacting a bit. It is a cartoon character after all. And please remember to sign your comments by placing four ~ after your comment. Konczewski 03:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

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Witchblade Lost Generation

Finally found a pic http://www.tokyopop.com/WraithMaster/photo/372699.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.245.122.98 (talk) 17:03, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

The trouble is, that image doesn't have any licensing information associated with it that I can see. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously, so a license is needed before uploading it —αlεx•mullεr 17:09, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering, was Lost Generation a novel, light novel, or manga? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.212.148.103 (talk) 02:22, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

It's a light novel. Bonotake (talk) 06:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

OTOH, the current title is wrong: not "Midori no Shojo", but "Ao no Shojo" (it was wrongly modified at 20:08, 28 February 2007). The character 碧 can be pronounced as both, but the author shows how to read it on his home page (in Japanese), cf. http://homepage3.nifty.com/ichisato/Write.htm:

ちなみに、「碧」を「あお」として使うように提案したのは俺。編集サイドでは当初「蒼」を使うことを考えていたらしい。
が、俺は沖縄の海のイメージとして「みどり」とも「あお」とも読める「碧」のほうがいい、と考えてこの漢字を使うことを提案し、了承された次第。
 (On the other hand, I'm the one who proposed to use 碧 for "Ao". Editors once planned to use 蒼 (another kanji for "ao"), 
 but I thought 碧 was better, because the character could be read both as "midori" (green) and "ao" (blue) so that 
 it matched the image of Okinawan sea. Thus I proposed it and they accepted it.)

I'll fix it from now. Bonotake (talk) 06:26, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

Other witchblade weapon?

I am sure I saw a Witchblade as a staff with two swords on the end, and not only in Dawn of War. Does anyone else know where this is? --98.215.53.250 (talk) 16:06, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Suggestion

Should we make a article about the manga? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.248.230.11 (talk) 01:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes. It strikes me that the article is actually missing a lot of information about the comic series - which should be the core. It makes sense to split off the adaptations to their separate articles so the bulk of the article can be refocused on the comics. The anime and TV series are already split off, the film will be when it is closer to being released, so I think the manga should be too. (Emperor (talk) 17:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC))

Link confusion

Several of the links in the Witchblade wielders section of the article redirect right back to that section of the article, making the links, in my opinion, useless. Should those links be removed? Heiyuu (talk) 18:28, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

What about the existing Witchblade film?

Why is there nothing in the wiki article about the previous Witchblade film? I mean, I saw it. Three times. I wouldn't know Witchblade at all if not for this movie. Henre (talk) 23:13, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

C-Class rated for Comics Project

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List of bearers

I'm just wondering if it'd be worth it to actually list what specific issues these bearers are mentioned in - I haven't heard of half the people on the list (or in the case of many of the historical figures, was not aware they were mentioned as bearers). I guess that calls the verifiability into question, right? I think it'd be a lot more helpful if there was some sort of citation listing where those bearers appeared or were mentioned, otherwise anyone could go around adding pretty much any name to that list, making the list even less useless than it already is. Xenomrph (talk) 04:30, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Went ahead and deleted all the ones that couldn't be verified in the comics; I even posted about it on the Top Cow forums and the people there hadn't heard of most of the people on the list. Xenomrph (talk) 02:25, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Movie Site

The movie site referenced (link #2, www.witchblade2009.com), seems to be a german generic mmorpg squatter site now. Nonsensical text and paid links and such. Anyone know if there is a new site for the movie or if the whole project was simply scrapped? Iueras (talk) 08:42, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

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Why I removed the Publication history section.

Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Comics#Lists as article sections and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics consensus, bulleted lists of appearances should not be included in articles. A publication history section can included such material in prose, but is supposed to contain real-world info such as the creators, dates, and any interesting facts on the creation of the book. Argento Surfer (talk) 21:39, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

And that guideline says explicitly: "Care should be taken though to make sure the list is relevant and would not be better handled as prose."

The list is certainly relevant, and I disagree that it would be better handled as prose. It's a useful, encyclopedic list, not much different from listing the discography of a band or episodes of a television show. As the guideline says at the top, "use common sense in applying it". The second bullet of the references section in the guideline clearly applies to this article, and nowhere does it require that such material must be included in prose. ~Amatulić (talk) 00:45, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

If there are no followup comments, I will restore the section in a week or so. ~Amatulić (talk) 22:45, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

No one has objected, so I have restored the publication history. ~Amatulić (talk) 13:55, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Removing the section about the movie

As I noted in a previous post, the movie site witchblade2009.com was a squatter site. Now, it is just plain blank. Obviously this movie is not in the works -- there has been no mention of it for years and the website for it is completely gone. Based on this, I am removing the section about the "upcoming" movie. Iueras (talk) 23:46, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Requested move

Witchblade → Witchblade (comics) – Helps to avoid confusion with the Witchblade (disambiguation) page and match page title with other pages on the disambiguation page 86.143.47.221 (talk) 00:19, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

I am not sure that is necessary since every other entry on the dabpage is an adaption of the this comic.--174.93.170.47 (talk) 01:14, 21 October 2013 (UTC)