Series

The Series page displays the complete checklist and metadata for a selected series from the Metron database. From this view, you can manage your subscription, map directory paths, and control tracking status.

Subscribing to a Series

When viewing a series you are not currently tracking, two primary actions are available:

Subscribe

Clicking Subscribe prompts you for the storage path where issues of this series will be saved.

The proposed path defaults to your configured Custom Move Pattern in File Settings. You can customize this path as needed:

Common Folder Patterns

Standard series typically use: /{Publisher}/{Series} ({Year})/

Multi-volume series can be organized using volume subfolders: /{Publisher}/{Series}/v{Year}/

Click Create & Map to create the directory (if it does not already exist), register the subscription, and create a persistent .cvinfo / series.json sidecar.

Map Location

If you already have a folder containing issues of this series, click Map Location to link the subscription to that existing directory.

Navigate to the folder and click Select This Folder (or the checkmark icon). CLU scans the directory, matches your existing files against the checklist, and updates your owned count.

Managing Active Subscriptions

For subscribed series, the header toolbar provides the following actions:

Remove

Click Remove to unsubscribe from the series and remove it from your Pull List. Your local comic files are left untouched.

Change Location

Click Change Location to re-map the series to a different folder. CLU updates the stored mapping and reconciles your files.

API Sync

Click API Sync to query the Metron API for new issue solicitations, publication date updates, and revised series descriptions. This sync runs automatically every night across all subscribed series.

Refresh

Click Refresh to purge local caches, refetch the latest series and issue records from Metron (including newly added creator credits), and rescan your local storage folder to reconcile file matches.

Monitor

The Monitor toggle controls whether CLU actively tracks and searches for missing issues:

• When Monitored: Missing issues appear on the Wanted page and are included in nightly automated download sweeps (GetComics, Usenet, DC++).
• When Not Monitored: The series is greyed out on the Pull List, and automated downloader searches are paused.

Turn off monitoring for completed runs where you already own all desired issues, or when remaining issues are out-of-print and unavailable.

On the Stack

Enable On the Stack to allow this series to surface its next unread issue in the On the Stack carousel on your Collection homepage.

Issue Statuses: Wanted, Owned, and Skipped

Each issue in the series checklist carries a tracking status:

• Owned: Issues physically detected in your mapped folder, or issues you manually marked as owned (e.g. issues collected in an omnibus or trade paperback).
• Wanted: Released issues that are absent from your local folder. These are automatically included in automated download sweeps.
• Skipped: Issues you do not wish to collect. Skipped issues are excluded from download searches.

Multi-Select Actions

Select multiple issues using the checkboxes to perform bulk status updates:

• Mark as Owned: Manually mark the selected issues as collected.
• Mark as Skipped: Exclude selected issues from search sweeps.
• Mark as Wanted: Re-enable tracking for issues previously marked as Owned or Skipped.