Comments on: Introducing ComicRankings.com!

By: GlendaBarron

GlendaBarron — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:04:46 +0000

cool links, thanks!,

By: Jon Haehnle

Jon Haehnle — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:58:00 +0000

No problem Matt. Thanks for stopping by. There’s a lot of work to do since I’ve got a lot planned for ComicsRankings but glad you like it so far!

By: Matt Clark

Matt Clark — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:05:20 +0000

Hello from the UK! Thanks for including our reviews in your rankings. Looks like a lot of work has gone into all this and it’s looking very good so far.

By: Jon Haehnle

Jon Haehnle — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:23:58 +0000

Welcome Justin! Glad to have you

By: Justin

Justin — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:04:40 +0000

Hi All! Justin from 13 Minutes here, just wanted to say thanks for including me on your cite list!

By: Jon Haehnle

Jon Haehnle — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:48:23 +0000

Hmm. Even if it wasn’t a lot of extra work — which it would definitely be — to go and assign scores for reviews that have none (like RT apparently does), I’d feel much more comfortable with the reviewers doing it themselves and not worry about me possibly mis-translating (for lack of a better word) for them.

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:53:37 +0000

RottenTomatoes assigns a grade or number to reviews that don’t have one based on the tone of the review. I don’t know how they do this (and would imagine it could get pretty time consuming), but it’s an option.

Cool idea!

By: Matthew E

Matthew E — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:34:45 +0000

Just curious… do you have a way of coping with sites like mine, which do reviews but don’t come up with a final ranking on any kind of scale? I used to try to award each issue I reviewed a number of stars, but eventually found that I didn’t have much of a rhyme or reason for how many I awarded, and stopped doing it.

By: Jon Haehnle

Jon Haehnle — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:46:01 +0000

SMH: Don’t worry, I didn’t think your initial comment as harsh; in fact, I’ve had the same thoughts you have. I’m just going to try and make the site as comprehensive as possible, so we’ll see how that goes!

Pedro: True, and I do hope to add reviews from those kinds of sites. The more reviews in the database, the better!

By: Pedro Tejeda

Pedro Tejeda — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:16:41 +0000

There are really little comic websites that do reviews. I can’t wait how this skewers for stuff that is not reviewed by many websites.

No one at all reviewed Pax Romana two weeks ago, but I did see a review for it that was an A.

By: SMH

SMH — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:46:53 +0000

I came across harsh in my initial criticism. I think that this is a good idea but it is only really relevant to the most popular/highest selling comics eg. Ultimates, Astonishing X-men etc. With so many specialist sites (Manga/Anime/X-men) who only review books relevant to their reader. Compared to many film/game review sites that review every film/game,with the exception of IGN most of these sites review less than 10 books a week. To say a book is good/bad when only 2 sites consistently review it is inacurrate.

By: Jon Haehnle

Jon Haehnle — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:40:30 +0000

Well hopefully averaging all the reviews together will reduce the impact of any fanboy groupthink. And like I said, I do realize this might not the most practical thing in the world, but if people find it useful, interesting or otherwise entertaining & informative I’m glad.

By: Bevbos

Bevbos — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:33:08 +0000

Nonetheless, it’s interesting to see.

By: Bevbos

Bevbos — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:32:20 +0000

I don’t personally think “conventional wisdom” from the internet is a superior indication of quality than sales. For the most part I agree with the rankings here, but there are a couple of items that sort of boggle the mind, unless you consider “fanboy” groupthink.

By: Jon Haehnle

Jon Haehnle — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 15:11:34 +0000

I guess this wasn’t clear enough, but all the sites used by ComicRankings (listed on the sidebar) give scores for their reviews. While you’re right that only IGN uses the 100 point scale, everyone else cited here uses 5 stars, a 10 point scale or the letter grade (A-F) system. If you click on any of those single issues at the bottom you can actually see the scores from different sites. Sorry for any confusion. I’ve edited my post to make this clearer.

By: SMH

SMH — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:36:54 +0000

Not very impressed with this, How many sites give numerical reviews? IGN is the only one I know of and their reviewers are notorious with their bias.