Board Thread:Policies/@comment-20551-20190224085917/@comment-20551-20190224233337

I don't understand what the alternatives are. We can pretty confidently say, "[Comic] is [character]'s first appearance". It's much harder to say, "[Character] has never and will never appear again" since it's trying to prove a negative. 1st is accurate and may be incomplete to the extent that it doesn't also say "Plus he never can ever appear again no matter what, I promise" but Only says "I promise this guy can never appear again anywhere" and that's not true in some instances. It would be better to just say "this is the first time he appeared" irrespective of if he appeared again. There's no incentive to introduce this extra clause that just turns out to make a false statement.