Thread:Kyletheobald/@comment-28125426-20161112085923/@comment-6369172-20161115120204

Epistemology of Captions:

Captions and synopses provide the same info: who are these guys?, why are they punching each other?, what town is this?, what year is this?, what does that gizmo do?, when did we last see this villain?, what's that crazy-looking car called?, what happened before this chapter's events?, etc. Captions are not in the story; the story is in the captions. Synopses ditto. Captions and synopses exist outside the story, to give us access to the story's contents. They are OOU, all of them, but most of what we know about IU events comes to us via those little blocks of text. Plus the art of course.

A blurb telling us "Continued from last issue" is essentially a caption and thus a legitimate part of a synopsis. Or so I claim.