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"Saw episode 1032 over lunch. (If I want to get to 1060 by Dec 31, I'll have to be diligent! We'll see.) Barnabas manages to return to PT, after he gets our Julia to secure the shifting room in our own timeline. Yeager reads Maggie a letter from…"
"Treading water until they could figure out a decent plotline, I guess!"
"Aw, butts! I want to engage with this (I've seen the movie, and liked it quite a bit!), but I cant remember the link for the tool that'll let me read what you wrote. Though I can guess what the controversy is. "
"Two more this afternoon, up through episode 1031. Angelique has been reunited with her father (or stepfather), Professor Stokes, who somehow used occult mumbo-jumbo to help bring her back from the dead. There's a near corpse in his secret back room…"
"Just updating to say I'm having a blast rereading the beginning of the Gail Simone run on Wonder Woman in the recent DC Finest volume, Origins and Omens. I'm halfway through now -- I've read the teamups, the opener of the Simone run, "The Circle"…"
"Wow, that Snowflame pic looks awesome! I should probably try cocaine.(Seriously, though -- is that panel recolored? That smoke behind him is glorious.)"
"I've seen up through episode 1029 now. Barnabas and Angelique are directly confronting each other, albeit in secret. Barnabas has warned Maggie that "Alexis" means to do her harm, though she doesn't believe it. It hardly matters at the moment; she's…"
"Fantastic post, Commander! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving."
"I mean, a classic 12-issue series for ten bucks?
Is that what they are? I've never seen one.
...my eyes demand the bigger size, too.
there is a condition which afflicts my eyes as well: if I'm not interested in something, I can't see it.
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Is that what they are? I've never seen one.
...my eyes demand the bigger size, too.
there is a condition which afflicts my eyes as well: if I'm not interested in something, I can't see it.
"
"You might be right that someone else did it first. I just know it's the IDW volumes that made me finally take notice. Fantagraphix was also doing some nice work with smaller volumes of Peanuts and Dick Tracy... but I think they eventually moved up…"
"I don't know who did it first, but the hardcover Funky Winkerbean and For Better or for Worse volumes use this format, too. Three dailies to a page, one Sunday to a page."
"I was just thinking of the utility of the DC Finest Team-Ups volume. The first one focuses on a mix of DC Comics Presents and The Brave & the Bold stories, and that's definitely what the book will be like in the late 70s through mid 80s. But beyond…"
"My Wonder Woman: Origins and Omens DC Finest volume arrived today. It's the latest of the DC Finest volumes yet announced, covering the years 2007-2009. I'm looking forward to re-reading these stories. And it starts with one I hadn't read at all --…"
"I've also just watched episode 1024, in which Maggie wears the wrong dress to a costume ball, seemingly cementing the fact that her marriage to Quentin has fallen apart. (All part of Angelique's nefarious plotting!) There's some great, tense drama…"
"I remember the panel size keeping me away from comic strip reprints for ages, even when I was young, TBH. I feel like IDW finally cracked the code with their Library of American Comics volumes, printing the strips in a horizontal volume, three to a…"
"I've just watched episode 1023. Buffie interrupts Yeager's attempted rape of Maggie. Afterward, Yeager runs back to Cyrus's lab, and becomes Cyrus again...only to see Maggie outside, confiding in him (in oblque terms) what just happened. Cyrus is…"
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Thanks for the welcome! I've been 'lurking' and reading many a thread for quite a while!
How's that?
Rob, now maybe, with your godlike powers of moderation, you can help me with something.
As I typically do, when I post one column for approval, I go back to the previous one, correct all the errors/typos which escaped all of my prior proofreading, and submit that previous one for (re)approval.
When I posted my current Deck Log Entry (the Legion Quiz), I also reposted the previous "Mars or Bust!" entry, after cleaning it up. Usually the reposted column gets approved at the same time the new one is.
But for some reason, the "Mars or Bust!" column is still waiting approval. I don't know who the system decides what moderator gets what stuff to approve, but if you can give me an inkling on how to get "Mars or Bust!" reapproved, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Commander B
Rest easy, friend . . . you didn't screw anything up. The culprit is a peculiarity in the function of the system. Saving an article as a draft---which should send it to my blog list only---will also send it to a mod for approval. I imagine some reason was imagined for requiring drafts to be approved by mods, but it's inconvenient because, once a mod approves the draft, it appears in the "Latest Activity" column on the home page.
That means folks can access it before I'm ready to publish it.
The reason it became more of a problem this time is because I had to deviate from my normal routine. Typically, once I've written and proofed my article on Word and collected all the art I'm going to use into a file, then I go the the blog page, cut-and-paste the article, add the art, give it one last proofing (not that that ever gets all the bugs out), and then send it over to a mod for publishing.
During that evolution, I usually save it as a draft twice---once to make sure I have it, in case of a power failure or something, and nearly every time I add the art, a glitch in the hyperlink system forces me to save it a second time.
Because I usually do it all---save the draft and proof it and publish it---in one session, the mod approval of the draft usually isn't a problem.
But "Mars or Bust" I had to do differently. I had to edit some of the art two or three times, and I saved it as a draft each time. (I found one piece of art I had to edit, then saved the draft, then found something else that needed fixing, and so forth.) Even so, that wouldn't have been a problem---except that I ran out of available time to proof the article again. So I had to keep it in draft status until I can get to it this morning. (Actually, right after I finish this note to you.)
Apparently on the moderator's end, nothing indicates that it's a draft one is approving, vice an article ready for publication. And because it was only drafts you approved this time (and no follow-on final article for publishing which usually happens), it didn't publish.
So you didn't goof up, Rob. I just broke routine.
Best,
Commander B
We shall not see his like again...