How it works

Method & Sources

Document
The rulebook
Status
Living — revised as it grows
Scope
Discovery · Ranking · Sourcing · Rights
Rule above all
Nothing is fabricated
§1

Discovery

The catalogue is filled broadly first, so judgment works on a complete board, never a blank page. Every comic, special, and bit is logged with a source.

Bits that matter but are thinly documented are kept and flagged, not dropped — a record that quietly omits the hard-to-source cases isn't a complete record.

§2

Ranking

The lists are ordered by hand. A bit lands in a tier first, then takes a fine position by head-to-head comparison against the bits already in that tier.

9–10
Pantheon
The defining work. Changed what the form could do.
7–8
Classic
Enduring, widely revered, quoted for decades.
5–6
Great
Excellent and distinctive, just below the canon's peak.
2–4
Notable
Worth knowing, on the board, in the conversation.

Scale is a 0–10 guide, not a precise grade.

An advisory scorecard informs the eye but never decides the order. Five axes get weighed, then set aside for judgment:

01
Craft
02
Originality
03
Influence
04
Cultural impact
05
Longevity

The score is a point of view, not a measurement. This is one editor's canon, argued and owned — not a weighted vote of hundreds of critics, the way the big magazine and institute lists are built. That makes it openly subjective, and the trade is transparency: the reasoning is shown, and everything stays re-rankable as the canon grows.

The numbers you see now are provisional, flagged as illustrative until the real verdicts land.

§3

Sources & verification

Nothing is hosted on this site. Every clip, link, and credit is checked before it ships; a dead or re-uploaded link is worse than an honest "coming soon." This is the protocol, run on every entry.

  1. Find, then verify

    Candidates are found by research, then each is checked individually. A summary is an intention; only a passing check ships.

    Verify
  2. Embed the best version available

    Priority order: the comic's own channel (or estate's), then the special's network or label (Netflix Is A Joke, HBO, Comedy Central, Just For Laughs, Team Coco, etc.). Where no official upload exists, we embed a long-standing public upload — one the rights holders have had years to take down and have left up — because a missing canonical bit is worse than a non-official source. Reaction videos, short cutdowns of bits we can ship in full, and recent re-rips are dropped.

    Embed
  3. Links are checked live

    Every website and channel link must resolve before it ships. Dead links are dropped and shown as a coming soon badge rather than guessed at.

    Drop
  4. Never re-host, always take down on request

    Nothing is hosted on this site — every clip plays from YouTube or Spotify, every image is hot-linked to its source. If a rights holder asks for any clip, photo, or page to come down, it comes down promptly, no questions asked.

    Remove
§4

Imagery & credits

Images identify each work and point you to it, sized for recognition and always credited. Comic photographs come from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA); special and album posters come from TMDB. Clips embed from YouTube and Spotify — official channels where they exist; otherwise long-standing public uploads. Credit lines run in the footer of every page.

§5

What we never do

  • Never fabricate a link, quote, date, or attribution. If it can't be verified, the gap is shown.
  • Never publish a full transcript of a copyrighted bit — quoted lines stay short, as commentary, and attributed.
  • Never self-host or re-upload a clip. Everything plays from YouTube or Spotify — preferring the artist's own channel and the major networks, falling back to long-standing public uploads where no official source exists.
§6

Corrections & takedowns

Spotted a mistake, a mis-credit, or something you want removed? It will be fixed or taken down promptly, no questions asked. Get in touch. All rights remain with their owners, and everything here links back to the official source.

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