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Anatomy of a Comic Book Guide (and a comic book collection)

June 10, 2022 by krisis Leave a Comment

Finally slaying the ancient dragon that was my Guide to Legion of Super-Heroes inspired me to keep track of all of the many steps and processes it takes to put together a new comic book guide.

I think more people making more great guides to consuming comics (and other media!) makes the internet better for all fans. I love Omar’s Near Mint Condition video Reading Orders, How To Love Comics’s guide to reading your first comic, ComicsXF Primers, and ComicReleases solicits roundsups. All of them overlap with what I’m doing a little bit, but they’re all helping people find the comics they might love, which is why I started doing this in the first place.

Below I’ve listed my process for putting together a comic guide, which is also how I build a personal reading list or new comic collection! When I get interested in a new character, author, or title for the first time, my approach is almost identical to guide-building, even if I don’t plan on making a guide.

Throughout the list, I used my well-established Excalibur Guide and my new Patrons-only Legion of Super-Heroes Guides as examples. I tried to share some interesting behind-the-scenes nuggets along the way for all of you process wonks.

Feel free to use this guidance to help you put together your own handy guides, whether that’s for personal use or on a website. I certainly have some “secret sauce” and proprietary tools that help me make my guides so definitive, but anyone could work through this checklist to figure out a comics property from top to bottom. It takes me anywhere from 4 to 30 hours, depending on the complexity of the character or title I’m researching.

Here’s the breakdown of my steps.

  1. Create a list of series or volumes
  2. Decide on scope
  3. Organize (but don’t over-sort)
  4. Research your series list (this will include narrowing and expanding)
  5. Compile a collected editions list
  6. Assemble the stuff
  7. Conduct a clean-up pass
  8. Consider the meta-data
  9. Enjoy! (No, really! Make a plan for enjoying this hard work.)
  10. Schedule your first check-up

Now, let’s dig in!

1. Create a list of series or volumes

Your initial goal is to create a list of what might be “in” for your guide, list, or collection.

You don’t have to start by going broad. It’s fine to begin looking into or reading the thing that got you interested in the first place and then following it into other titles as you go.

This is easier when you’re working on comic with a singular run, like my Guide to Spawn. If you’re attacking something with more material – like “Legion of Super-Heroes” or “X-Men” – you might decide to start by casting the widest net possible to catch your titles. You might have an even bigger topic than that, like “all comics with Blue Beetle,” “all Stan Lee comics,” “all comics released in 2021,” or “all comics about Mars.”

ComicBookDB used to be an amazing tool for series research like this. Now, I’d recommend using a mix of DC, Marvel, and Image Fandom communities and other wiki-based sites like League of Comic Geeks, Comics.org, ComicVine, or even Wikipedia.

The search on Marvel Unlimited and DC Universe Infinite can also be a huge help! Finally, you can search on the Previews website for most releases since 2000 – though that will bring up individual issues, which can get overwhelming. (Try narrowing the search only to “Graphic Novels.”)

In being mindful to eliminate future re-work, this is a good time to note any information that exists on the entire series level rather than the issue level. That includes the dates the series ran, the number of issues, or even a link to the page you’re using to refer to the series.

For more-encompassing topics like themes or styles of illustration, sometimes it’s useful to get out of the comics space and onto a book-oriented resources like GoodReads, Amazon, or even the Library of Congress catalog. Heck, don’t discount the use of Google’s “site:” search on a publisher’s domain!

Just remember: every wiki has a perspective, even if that’s a perspective of neutrality. And, they’re only as good as their worst contributors! My perspective is always for my list to be the most exhaustive list anyone has ever created, and sometimes I need multiple sources to get there.

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: When I first made the guide, this was simple: every title with Excalibur in it! Or, so I thought.

I wound up including all Captain Britain titles on the page as well until 2021, when I launched him into his own guide. Also, there were some side series for characters in the cast, so I wound up searching for each of their series as well (although I excluded some of them in the next step).

In the present day, I have to keep an eye on “Knights of X,” which is an Excalibur spin-off! If I was just starting the guide today, that wouldn’t be so easy to figure out. Sometimes it’s helpful to track a few characters or creators who are strongly associated with a team to see where they turn up. Looking for Betsy Braddock or Tini Howard would’ve tipped me off.

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: Since the death of CBDB I’ve learned I can’t trust any single resource out there to be organized in the way my database-loving brain thinks.

As a result, I’ve built my own database to help drive this step, which took hundreds of hours of work with a variety of sources. It has every historical comic from every major publisher and I augment it by scraping new series out of Previews listings. DC leaving Diamond distributors put a wrench into my works on that one, but I found a way around it (though it’s not an awesome solution).

To start this guide, I searched for every DC-published title with the word “Legion” in it. That helped me find “Legionnaires” and “Legion Lost.” I also learned to look out for “Adventure Comics” and titles with “3000” or “30th Century,” all of which tend to involve the Legion.

Plus, I realized Superboy would sometimes effectively be a Legion book, so I started with all of his titles on the list since I don’t have a guide for him yet. That took my initial list well past 50 titles.

2. Decide on scope

This seems obvious, but it’s not!

Will your X-Men guide include all comics with the word “X-Men” in the title? Will your Spawn guide only cover the main Spawn series?

Do non-continuity books qualify? Are you going to track every appearance of a character… even cameos?

What about book format – do you care about digest-sized paperbacks? Does an essay in a prose collection count for your Author guide?

I’ve found that if I don’t make a firm decision up front that my guides will go through endless revisions while I fiddle with their scope. And, when it comes to collecting, it leads to buying stuff I’ll never actually read.

When you’re dealing with a property with hundreds of issues, you want to avoid re-work. Every time you have to re-order your order or re-check your wishlist you multiply your work effort.

That doesn’t mean you have to start with the widest scope. That can make it hard to get a project past the initiation phase. It’s fine to pick an arbitrarily tight focus. Just pick something.

Note that deciding on the scope doesn’t mean you can immediately eliminate things. Even if you decide on every book with “X-Men” in the title, one volume of X-Men Forever was a mini-series and the next two were alternate reality books. I didn’t know that until I researched!

This is just about deciding what’s in contention and what’s out based on the kind of guide or collection you are assembling.

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: Considering the scope of Excalibur brought up the question: “What is Excalibur?”

Is it any team with Captain Britain or a Braddock sibling? Then does Brian on MI:13 and Betsy on Exiles count? Maybe it’s any British team with a mutant, but then does 2020’s The Union count despite not being an X-book in the slightest? What about Excalibur, Vol. 3 – which wasn’t Braddock-y or British at all?! Does Excalibur count as Excalibur?!

I decided to limit my definition to Excalibur titles, plus British teams with any tie to Captain Britain or the X-Men that were not under another franchise line. That meant MI:13 was in, to start, and Exiles was out. (Later, MI:13 moved into the Captain Britain guide.)

For a while I debated if Excalibur ought to include all of Marvel UK, because a lot of the Marvel UK I read in the 90s featured them as guest stars! However, a bit of research showed that was a selection bias on my part, so I discarded UK outside of Captain Britain himself.

I decided that solo series that didn’t occur while said team member was in the Excalibur were out, which took out all of Nightcrawler’s solos. I also decided I wouldn’t be tracking character appearances unless it was the team appearing as Excalibur. Later, Marvel’s Epic Collections took a similar approach, which made my job easier!

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: Luckily, my guides have established rules. I know non-continuity stories are out. I know for team books I only include appearances outside of their own title when they don’t have their own title.

Unluckily, some of my rules worked against Legion. For example, I usually exclude future stories… but these were all future stories! Even some seemingly out-of-continuity tales are ostensibly part of the Legion canon.

Ultimately, I chose not to kick out anything unless it was demonstrably outside of continuity by relying on another media property, like a cartoon or an inter-company crossover. Also, I decided Superboy books were out unless the Legion were title stars or they didn’t have their own ongoing at the time. Eventually all of those titles will wind up in a Superboy guide, and I try to avoid duplication

3. Organize (but don’t over-sort)

This applies whether you’re building a guide or filling a shelf. Deciding an initial organization up front saves you time later.

Will things be chronological by release date or by continuity? Or, do you have your own magic sorting order, like doing a ranking or only shelving books you’ve re-read?

How will you keep track of the organization as you go? I’ve done everything from spreadsheets to hand-drawn flow charts to snapping pictures of a shelf as I re-arrange it.

Here’s the important part: Decide early but don’t re-sort often. Sometimes the shuffling of stuff on your outline or on your physical shelf winds up taking more time than building your guide or collection. The shuffling is not the work!

Start by trying to keep things organized, but only go back for a shuffle when you’re done or when things have become too much of a mess to make sense. And, be open to the idea that you were totally wrong at the beginning and have to reorganize from scratch.

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: Excalibur was very straight-forward to organize! So much so that it didn’t really need “Eras” or sub-divided sections at first, because it was only a handful of volumes.

At the time I started there were no oversized collections of Excalibur. Now there are several, so in my last guide update I had to create a section for them, as well as one for Epic Collections.

That was a good lesson that organization shifts with the changing scope of the thing you’re collecting.

To use an obvious physical example: you might’ve had a good organization system 10 years ago when your entire Excalibur collection of floppies and trades fit into short boxes, but the two Excalibur omnibuses are too big for them! You’re not going to pound them into the short boxes with a hammer. You should find a solution that fits, and that looks and feels good.

This comes up a lot with people who are very dogmatic about shelving everything in reading order even though collections often overlap in messy ways. I used to be like that, but I’ve long since given up. Sometimes you just have to accept that there’s not a clear answer and you do what feels good.

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: I quickly realized that I had to understand the three (four? five?) periods of Legion continuity in order to chunk the guide into reasonable sections. I reached out for help on that, but even after getting help I made mistakes and tried to over-sort things based on when they were released as well as their era.

This resulted in the 2007-2011 “Preboot” section of the guide becoming a complete mess, with me sometimes outlining the same series three times or more. Like, seriously, the exact same outline three times. It wasn’t a smart move – I should’ve obeyed my own rules to avoid over-sorting at the start.

4. Research your series list (this will include narrowing and expanding)

This is where the hard work begins.

If you are working from a series list, you need to check every title to decide if it is in or out of scope. I’ve found the magic trick for this is often to read solicits for the first issue, first arc-end, and and first collection. You can find those Previews search, on Fandom, and often on publisher websites.

If your scope includes a full character chronology or something thematic, you need to find every qualifying comic within your scope. I find the Fandom sites aren’t organized enough or accurate enough to easily pull this data. League of Comic Geeks is probably your best current option for characters

(Keep in mind that not every “appearance” is an appearance. For almost every wiki-based site, people will list an “appearance” even for a cameo or a memory. )

While doing this research, I find that I add things to my outline as often as I cross them off. Frequently you see something in one issue that leads you down a rabbit hole into a totally different series that wasn’t on your list before.

I’ll be honest – for me, this step usually involves paging through every single issue or character appearance. That’s part of why my guides are definitive. I might not read everything, but I do check everything!

For me, this used to involve indiscriminately buying a huge collection of stuff. I’d recommend against that tactic. Having Marvel Unlimited and DC Universe makes this more feasible today than it was even three years ago, but the recent death of Comixology made it harder for indie titles. However, there’s ways to do this without looking at the actual issues. Browsing each issue of a run on any of the comic wiki sites I listed above will be helpful.

Again, re-work is your enemy. This will be the step where you are closest to the actual issues before reading them. If you are going to need cover images, panel screenshots, creator names, or anything else at the issue level, now is the time to track them. It’s also the point to try to decide on reading order, if that matters to you.

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: This is an easier step on a series guide than for an individual character, and I know Excalibur better than any other series, but it still required some research.

The big part of it for me was reminding myself of which creators were on which runs. Also, I had to confirm where it intersected with (or pointedly ignored) major events in X-Men and at Marvel. What was Excalibur doing during X-Cutioner’s Song and how did it line up with House of M?

Figuring out the creator history also helped me figure out some missing pieces. Warren Ellis’s Starjammers mini-series required a mention in the guide, and ultimately was collected with his Visionaries trades. But, apart from searching on other comes Ellis wrote in the same period as Excalibur I had no idea it had anything to do with Excalibur!

Paging through my Marvel Official Indexes is helpful for this step, since they track where a character comes from and heads to from every guest appearance. Also, again, I’ve built a lot of my own tools for this over the years. I have several “continuity builder” spreadsheets that already have huge swaths of a perfected Marvel reading order in them. When I’m mapping a new character I just drop their appearances list into the spreadsheet and it spits out their reading order.

Of course, that took months to get right, but now it’s mine and you’ll pry it out of my cold dead fingers.

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: I decided early on that I wasn’t going to try to detail the team roster in each issue or run, though I’ve done that in the past for franchises like Guardians of the Galaxy and Teen Titans.

I checked out the first-issue solicits for every series to make sure I understood their mission statements. For some of them it wasn’t super-clear, so I turned to summaries on Fandom and ComicVine, or just paged through the issue myself.

Anytime a new series launched, an event happened, or an issue even had an outside character on the cover, I paged through to see how it might intersect with other books.

I’m sure I didn’t catch everything, but this helped get me out of the conceptual list-making mode and closer to the actual source material.

5. Compile a collected editions list

If you’re only collecting single issues, you’re in luck – you can skip this step!

If you’re working on collected editions, this is the hardest part of building your guide or shelf. Now that you know every series or appearance that is in scope, you have to figure out how they broke across collected editions.

For a modern comic from the trade era of 2004 to present, you’re probably looking at a one collection for every 6 issues, unless the run has been heavily recollected in fat trades or omnibuses.

For an older comic that has been well-collected in various archival editions, it might be more like one collection for every 10-12 issues. Really, the best case scenario is something with a comprehensive omnibus line – they’re expensive, but they cover a lot of ground quickly!

Here’s what I’ve learned from doing this tens of thousands of times across hundreds of guides: Solicits lie (or, at least, can be changed) and no Wiki is 100% trustworthy.

Hell, I’ve even seen the backs of books have the wrong contents listed!

If you are relying on secondary sources, you need at least two sources that are not copy/pasting the solicit text. And, be sure you have the correct ISBN! Often different comics collections of the same material have similar names and covers.

Whenever possible, the best option is opening the book itself. I’m not saying you should buy every book! However, many books offer online previews of their opening pages, which include their indicia – the tiny print at the bottom of their title page, In more than 9 out of 10 comic collections, the indicia will include the most-complete version of the contents.

Also, don’t forget that libraries exist! Your local library might have all of the collections sitting on a single shelf, which makes your job so much easier. Or, they could even have a digital lending system – many US libraries use Hoopla.

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: I’ll be honest… back in 2011 when I built this page I just bought everything. That was my tactic for most of my guides through 2015 when I realized my collection was getting to be too big for comfort.

I stopped buying physical Marvel Comics in 2016, so I couldn’t rely on my collection to help me when I revised the guide last year. That meant I had to methodically comb through Marvel solicits to find any mention of Excalibur, Captain Britain, or – more recently – Psylocke.

Early in the process of the most-recent guide update I realized how much of a pain that was, so I paused for several months to add an “every collection ever released” table to my own comics database before moving forward. That made narrowing things down to a keyword like “Psylocke” much easier! Then, I’d chase down the actual indicia of the collections if the solicited issues seemed suspect.

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: Luckily, Legion is way more self-contained than almost any other major Marvel or DC team. Almost all of the work here was making a complete list of every DC collection that had ever had “Legion” in the title and then checking the solicits or indicia for every one. (Oh, is that all?). Luckily, my new database helped with that.

I also had to check all of the event Omnibuses and Companions to see if they excerpted a Legion issue. And, finally, I checked into Superboy and Supergirl collections in periods where I knew they were in close proximity to the team.

6. Assemble the stuff

Is that specific enough for you?

What I mean is this: You’ve now got a terrific outline so you can assemble whatever it is your assembling, whether that’s a guide, a personal reading list, or a shelf. Now it’s time to assemble. Use your outline as a checklist and start filling it out.

Your guide might need links. You might want to screenshot key panels. You might be writing summaries or reviews. You might need to actually buy the books.

Or, maybe you have everything you needed from your research, but it’s all in an unorganized folder on your computer or in a stack next to your bookshelf.

It’s time to bring order to the chaos.

The best advice I can give you on this step is: pace yourself!

If you’re working on a guide or list, divide it into sensible chunks so you can feel a sense of accomplishment after you add stuff to every chunk. Give your eyes breaks!

If you’re working on a digital or physical collection, it’s time to do triage. Usually trying to buy everything all at once usually leads to over-spending, duplication, and trouble keeping things organized. Even if you have an unlimited budget, buying everything at once isn’t always a great plan unless you have a unique chance to scoop up a complete, pre-curated collection.

(I’ve done that once or twice, like the time I picked up someone’s run of every Wonder Woman comic from 1987 to 2010. Be open to serendipitous opportunities, but recognize not every sale is a “I MUST BUY IT ALL” situation.)

What do you want to read the most? What is close to going out of print? What’s on sale right now? Complex eBay searches with “or” and excluded terms are your friends!

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: I had already bought everything for Excalibur by the time I finished the guide, so this part was mostly just the fun of picking some images to feature on the page and building the Amazon links.

I’ve never been comfortable with any of the WordPress Amazon link generators, because you never know if they’re going to bring back the right edition of a book. For a long time I did everything manually. Now this is something that gets generated for me out of my database to proofread. That saves 20-45 seconds per book, which doesn’t sound like much, but for a page with 100+ collection links that’s a solid hour of time saved!

Over the years I’ve had to add a lot more stuff to the Excalibur Guide. In last year’s update I actually rebuilt the entire page including every single link, plus added links to digital, Marvel Unlimited, and even eBay for hard-to-find issues. There’s an amount you can scrape or automate that stuff (I do have a scrape of all of MU’s series links), but at some point you have to build things by hand.

This how I’d like every guide to be refreshed in the 2020s, but it takes a ton of work. For me it’s part of that “secret sauce” of what makes a Crushing Krisis guide definitive.

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: This step was a relief after all the toiling to get the series right!

I wound up with 82 total links, though some of those are repeated collections that cross different series or issue ranges. Ultimately, for its longevity I’d say Legion is somewhat under-collected. Also, picking images for DC books is much simpler now that DC Universe exists!

I’d say the hard part here was writing the intros to each set of continuity. I don’t know Legion like I know X-Men, so I couldn’t just write something off the top of my head. Every sentence had to be sourced, and even then I was afraid to summarize things incorrectly.

7. Conduct a clean-up pass

Now it’s finally time to do that long-awaited re-organization.

For a physical collection, that means reviewing to make sure you don’t have any gaps or duplicates.

For a digital list, this means confirming the order and proof-reading.

Here’s a pair of hot tips from my life as a professional proof-reader:

1. Try proofing in a different format than you compiled. If you wrote on screen, print out for your proof-read. If you kept track of everything with handwritten notes, try typing it up. If your eyes are tired of looking at your shelf, take a picture and look at it on screen.

2. Proofing from bottom to top (or in the opposite direction of the written language) can help to turn off the part of your brain that glossed over errors or omissions before. When you read things in order, your brain fills in gaps for you.

(That’s true of both words and narrative. Science shows if a wrod has the rgiht frsit and last ltetres your brain can still figure it out from context. See?)

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: This was mostly a reality-check. Is everything formatted the right way? Are images too big? Do I explain things in a parallel way for each series? I also checked every link – not only to other collections but to other guides, which can take a while.

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: I did a lot of the “proofing from bottom to top” on this guide over the past week. I’d start at the bottom, work my way up until I hit something that didn’t make sense, and then research to iron that out.

Then I’d begin from the bottom again applying the same level-of-care I set with my last group of revisions. It was time consuming, but this is when a guide transforms from a big blob of text into something coherent.

One of the biggest pains in my guides is pruning the table of contents. It’s not just making sure all of the anchor links work, but deciding how to phrase or group each title so that they’re easy to browse. I think I still have some more work to do on this front with Legion.

8. Consider the meta-data

This might sound a little whacky, but hear me out: What is the information that surrounds this new guide, list, or collection?

If you published a guide on the web, did you remember to add a featured image, a descriptive URL, or an excerpt?

If you built a list for your own enjoyment, did you save it somewhere the file won’t be easily lost?

Did you add it to your list of lists so you can find it again later?

(Do you need to make a list of lists?)

If you built a digital or physical collection, did you track or check-off what you bought? Do you use an inventory app like CLZ? Do you need to make digital back-ups or add your physical collection to your Renter’s insurance?

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: Excalibur is one of my oldest pages, so I always need to be mindful of improving its search engine optimization, image sizes, mobile-readiness, tagging, and other behind-the-scenes info. The internet changes at a rapid pace, and what was a great page 5 or 10 years ago might be crap today.

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: Adding new guides comes with so much complexity! It’s not only linking them from Patreon, a blog post, and the master guide page.

There’s also behind-the-scenes data-gathering to do. I have a check-list of over 20 little “did you remember to do XYZ” details I go through for every guide – everything from remembering to put in divider images between series to cross-linking it from other guides. I keep track of my work time on every guide to help me plan for future guides and updates. I tally how many issues in each series have been collected in color so I have the stats on hand.

I’ll drop one really big spoiler here: you know all of these various databases and spreadsheets I keep mentioning? I’m working on building my very own Comic Series Database that has all sorts of helpful links to every Marvel and DC series, plus tons of indies, with the intent on eventually making it available in some public form. Pushing out a huge guide like Legion that had 50+ series on it means I have to fill in a lot of information in the database to prepare it to be useful to myself and others.

9. Enjoy! (No, really! Make a plan for enjoying this hard work.)

Now that you put in the effort, you should experience the fruits of your labor. Don’t let all of your hard work be for naught!

If you made a guide or reading list, have you published it somewhere? Even if you don’t want to maintain your own blog, there are tons of forums and Reddit communities that might dig your work.

Another option is to make a spiffy graphic version of your list to release into the wilds of the internet – just be prepared to see it referenced years from now in the unlikeliest of places!

If you assembled a digital or physical collection, it’s time to get reading! I’ll write another post about tactics to read more, but at least pick up the first book from your list and flip through the initial issues – you’ve earned it!

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: For my most-recent Excalibur guide revision, the reward was making a cool video about my guide on a green screen! And, finally re-reading all of Excalibur, in order, over the past year (we’re currently into the 50s).

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: Hitting publish was a huge thrill!

There is always more work to do on a guide – for example, I haven’t added the eBay links to this one yet. It was just too overwhelming to tackle it all at once. My brain couldn’t handle it.

When it comes to guides, I often remind myself that I am by far the toughest taskmaster and worst critic. If something is stressing out about a guide or list or bookshelf or whatever, just… don’t do it. Chances are it’s not going to make or break your life or your professional reputation. Better to be without the stress.

10. Schedule your first check-up

Oh, did you think enjoying things meant you were finished?

It might. If you mapped a completed volume, appearances in a certain time period, or a series that has already been fully collected, you could be done.

However, if you’re working on an ongoing property, or one where new collections or formats are still coming out, I recommend putting a reminder on your calendar to repeat these steps anywhere from six months to two years from now.

There are always new comics and collections being solicited, and we live in an age of constant revivals and reboots. Even something that seemed thoroughly completed like Locke & Key will see new formats or even new material.

If you want your guide, list, or collection to stay up to date, it will require some occasional maintenance.

Click for insider info on Excalibur and LOSH

For the Excalibur Guide: It’s easier to update guides that have been more-recently updated. Ideally, I’d do a solicits check once a quarter and update every live guide. However, I have 100+ guides to get through right now, so that’s looking more like an annual re-check at the moment. Hopefully I can be all caught up one day and get back to quarterly!

For the Legion of Super-Heroes Guide: There’s a currently-running mini-series right now, which means we should see some further Legion solicits sometime in the next 3-6 months – plus, DC is pumping out new Legion collections at a steady pace. I set a note for myself to recheck the page in five months to see what’s developed.

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