Yeah, we did include those.
REALLY, we just based the legacy numbering off of the calculations we did for issue #250, the Deadpool death issue just before Secret Wars. If we hit issue #250 37 issues ago, we should be on issue #287.
Okay, so you fudged it then so you could hit a nice round number to coincide with an event. Well, I’m sure it’s too late to change it at this point even if you wanted to, but again I would say it’s a mistake for the Legacy number to include those.
The idea with the Legacy number at its most fundamental level should simply be, “what would the number be if the original ongoing series had never been relaunched?” Emphasis on “ongoing series”.
Mini-series are not counted in pretty much any other title’s Legacy numbers - Thor’s doesn’t, Doctor Strange’s doesn’t, Moon Knight’s doesn’t, Black Panther’s doesn’t, Punisher’s… well, honestly, I can not figure out what on Earth you guys did to get Punisher’s number.
There are a couple of other exceptions, of course, but they’re also fudging things presumably so they can also hit a nice round number at a certain time (the most egregious example being Amazing Spider-Man including the Secret Wars “Renew Your Vows” mini when no other title is doing so with their respective Secret Wars replacement title).
It just seems like the whole point of doing the Legacy number at all is to appeal to the nuts like me who like to keep track of this stuff, and to make it less confusing to new people trying to look into a title’s back catalogue. If you’re not going to have set rules to it, if you’re not going to be consistent with it, if you’re not going to make RIGHT right, then it just doesn’t seem like you’re going to achieve that goal. And that’s a bummer because you could have.
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