Talk:Four Colorotica

If that is the complete TOC I don't see any anime. "JLA" stands for "Justice League America". The league is commonly shortened to that in the comic, however JLA can also mean "Justice League Animated" if you are referring to series, i.e to indicate the cartoon continuity rather than the comic continuity, as the two are separate, though there are also comics set in the animated continuity (and the animated DC continuity is split as well, as generally all Timm/Dini series are considered one universe, but the Toon Titans for example are different). Anyway, beside that, also in comics JLA shorteded means a specific incarnation of the comic book when the title was shortened to that on the cover. The canon is somewhat complicated, to put it mildly. Just from "JLA" you can't really tell which specific subfandom and canon this refers to, though it's my impression that the Animated Justice League has been the most popular in online fiction, probably because the comparatively limited character set and neat canon that isn't several decades of multiple comic titles with hundreds of members and several retcons.--Ratcreature 12:47, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

"FourColorotica; a comic/anime net reprint slash zine with two new stories written for the publication (now timed out). X-Men stories by Eon, Sian, Azurine and Kethry; JLA stories by SimmySim, Dimitri Aiden; Batman Begins by Tem-ve H'syan and a Smallville/Stargate Atlantis crossover by Lady Ra. Art is by Sian, LA Adolf and images by Marvel and DC Comics. Full size; 300 pages." [1] This is what I have. I can see that I stupidly left off the part about Marvel and DC Comics, a careless move on my part. I don't know a thing about comics or anime, so someone else will have to sort this one out. Mrs. Potato Head 12:54, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Looking at the page, I'm not sure the zine ad has been actually written by someone into these fandoms. I get the impression that they may use anime for all kinds of animation, but I have never seen western-style cartoons referred to as "anime" in the fandoms for them (in English I mean, from what I understand in Japan itself "anime" really is just the word for animation, so everything it's called that, but I'm clueless about Japanese fandoms in general, and in English that just isn't the case). It's not even common to refer to cartoons in Japanese anime-like style (like Avatar the Last Airbender) that are made in the West as anime. I'd actually call this particular zine a DC and Marvel universe zine, because that also neatly side-steps the question whether movie and tv adaptations of comic books such as Smallville or Batman Begins are actually 'comic fandoms' or not.--Ratcreature 13:35, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Totally works for me! Thank you, ratcreature, for helping sort it out this far. Mrs. Potato Head 13:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC)