Now there's a recipe for disaster. What happens to previously downloaded issues? Downloads you get from a friends' calibre library? Or if you move to a new computer and import your library but not your settings from one computer to another?
No doubt someone will be along to point out that I could use another field rather than author for this. Read this:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=166428
There are good reasons I chose to do it this way. You are free to disagree with those reasons, it is not going to change.