Comic Publishers and RSS
Tonight I wanted to add a cool feature to Comicster - a "new releases" tree node (or series of tree nodes), that would feature new releases from the various publishers.
Turns out that the only publisher with an official new-releases feed is Marvel. You can view it here. None of the other major comic publishers seem to have heard of web feeds of any kind. That's really disappointing.
Before you tell me: Yes, I have heard of comiclist.com. Those guys produce a "what's new" feed, too, but it's a little too verbose for my tastes. That's why I was looking for a single feed per publisher.
So anyway, Marvel gets their own special feed node in Comicster. Everyone else misses out. You watch how quickly DC goes out of business now that they're missing out on Comicster support! ;-)

Comments
# Charles LePage
11/05/2006 2:33 AM
An interesting idea. BTW, I'm the only guy at comiclist.com. :)
# mabster
11/05/2006 7:08 AM
Hi Charles!
Don't get me wrong - Comicster's a one-man operation too! :)
If you ever consider splitting your feeds into individual publishers, let me know - you can be the official "new comics" feed into Comicster.
# Charles LePage
7/09/2006 11:52 AM
What would you think of separate messages, one for each publisher, or one for each major publisher and one for all the "minors,"... if I did that, then I could have a feed for each message, and thus a feed for each publisher. Thoughts?
# mabster
7/09/2006 12:14 PM
That would rock, Charles.
Perhaps you could knock up an example feed (say for DC or Marvel) and email me the URL? How cool will it be to have comiclist.com be the official feed for Comicster! I'll definitely include a credit/link back to your site.
# Charles LePage
8/09/2006 3:54 AM
Here's a test feed for this week's DC.
http://www.smileysmile.net/computerchuck/index.php?blog=5&tempskin=_rss2">http://www.smileysmile.net/computerchuck/index.php?blog=5&tempskin=_rss2
Here's the link to the test blog:
http://www.smileysmile.net/computerchuck/index.php?blog=5
# Charles LePage
8/09/2006 3:55 AM
Sorry, that first one went off the map:
http://www.smileysmile.net/computerchuck/
index.php?blog=5&tempskin=_rss2
# mabster
8/09/2006 8:14 AM
That looks great, Charles!
Once you've settled on a URL scheme, let me know and I'll start integrating 'em into Comicster.
We can take this offline if you like: mabster -at- madprops.org.