Scope: Distinguishing marketing art from interior events within the published and officially announced BRZRKR record.
BRZRKR covers can depict characters, objects, locations, and visual possibilities that do not occur exactly that way inside the issue.
BRZRKR record
A cover confirms an official presentation when its issue and credit are verified. Plot claims still require the interior comic, prose text, or an explicit official description.
Why it matters
This distinction protects both sides of the franchise. Cover art can be studied as visual history without being forced into canon, and story chronology can remain grounded in the work itself.
Collecting information describes publication objects rather than story continuity. A foil treatment, signature, retailer logo, grading label, or new cover can make a copy distinct without adding a new event to B’s life. Official publisher and edition records carry more weight than undated resale descriptions.
A dependable description begins with facts visible on the object or stated by the publisher: issue or book title, printing, credited artist, market, finish, and packaging. Condition, signature provenance, grading, completeness, and ownership belong to the individual copy. Separating edition identity from copy condition prevents scarcity, price, and canon from being confused with one another.
Confirmed limits
No pose, relationship, weapon behavior, date, or character appearance should be established solely from cover art.
Unconfirmed dates, credits, contents, formats, or story connections remain open. Later official material can extend the record, but it should not be anticipated as fact.