SUPERMAN bi-monthly ?

I finally managed , belatedly , to get the new SUPERMAN series' #1 (at a newsstand account where it costs a dollar more ~ as with all DCU titles ~ $3.99) - and saw , in the incidia , that it is published bi-mothly !!!!!!!!!

  But the publicity - and th DC house ad - claims it's twice-monthly . 

  Which ???

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  • I haven't seen this, but if it's published twice a month the more accurate term would be semi-monthly.

    Apparently there is a second meaning to bi-monthly that means the same as semi-monthly. This is stupid and inaccurate.

  • Bi-monthly means both twice a month and every other month. Weird but true.

  • You DO know that TPTB have decided that "literally" can now mean its exact opposite, right?

    I'm guessing I shouldn't even bring up the whole flammable/inflammable thing.
     
    Richard Willis said:

    I haven't seen this, but if it's published twice a month the more accurate term would be semi-monthly.

    Apparently there is a second meaning to bi-monthly that means the same as semi-monthly. This is stupid and inaccurate.

  • Don't get me started on this. I find it completely infuriating.

    Doctor Hmmm? said:

    You DO know that TPTB have decided that "literally" can now mean its exact opposite, right?

  • That is literally stupid.

    Doctor Hmmm? said:

    You DO know that TPTB have decided that "literally" can now mean its exact opposite, right?

  • ...I could care less !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      BTW , a semi-monthly comic ~ Or , I guess , " bi-monthly " in this new sense (Well , we are always told " English is a living language " , but...:-0) ~ would come out with 24 issues a year .

      A bi-weekly would have 26 ishes .

  • I discovered this "bi-monthly" confusion when I was told at my vet's office that a wormer medication should be used "bi-annually." Fortunately I already knew it was supposed to be every six months, so I got into a discussion about it, and later discovered the crazy definition of bi-annually and bi-monthly.

    The goal of communication should clarity, not confusion.

  • The second meaning of literally is the exact opposite of the first meaning.

    Comics always used to know what bi-monthly meant.

    The easier it becomes to do research the less people do it.  A youtube video tells me the original artist on the Vision was Steve Buscemi. And I'm shocked at how many people are convinced there was a story telling how the Original Vision created the android Vision.

  • I don't think I've seen any actual DC material calling those books bi-monthly, though. Every ad I've seen has said "Twice monthly, beginning in June" (or whenever).

  • Yep, that's what I was thinking.

    Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod) said:

    I don't think I've seen any actual DC material calling those books bi-monthly, though. Every ad I've seen has said "Twice monthly, beginning in June" (or whenever).

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