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"Thanks for highlighting this. I just preordered it.
I don't know how far back it goes, but the military expression SNAFU was apparently in use in WWII. No matter what the news media tells you, the fourth word is not "fouled.""
I don't know how far back it goes, but the military expression SNAFU was apparently in use in WWII. No matter what the news media tells you, the fourth word is not "fouled.""
"ATLAS COMICS LIBRARY No. 8: SNAFU:
Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and Marie Severin, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Stan Lee and others in a gorgeous new package!
When…"
Marvel in a Mad mode! The complete 1955 Snafu magazine collected for the first time, featuring satire by John and Marie Severin, Russ Heath, Joe Maneely, Stan Lee and others in a gorgeous new package!
When…"
"Ha, that's me!Well, Golden Glider isn't my favorite character, but let me mount a defense of her anyway.First -- the figure skating thing? I like that for a villain for Flash, because it incorporates motion in a way that most of the Rogues don't.…"
"Oh no, Phillip. That's horrifying. I'm so sorry this is happening to you all, and I hope your mother finds peace soon. "
"That's one of my first comics ever! I loved it! The scene in the tunnel of fear with the giant spider just knocked me out as a kid!"
"Not to my knowledge, no. His Reckless books seem to me to have a bit of Travis McGee in them, though. There's the great tough-guy action stories, but they tend to have a layer of talking about the changes to the California environment and cities…"
"That's awesome, Peter! Thanks!"
"I'm guessing what the Beast might feel needs killing in him -- which might be a different thing than the empathic figure intended -- is a feeling of guilt that he's a sham. That in leaving the X-Men for the Avengers, in a way he's casting off his…"
"I read Friday, by Ed Brubaker, Marcos Martin, and Muntsa Vicente. College freshman Friday Fitzhugh comes back to town on winter break. She immediately falls back into a mystery with her middle- and high-school mystery-solving partner, Lancelot…"
"I just read this issue. I liked the beginning -- basically up until the Manipulator shows up -- but the end is a mess. What does Cornell say about it? "
"Since the theme is Winter Sports, I've been looking for comic book covers with curling on them, and coming up empty. (Even though Captain America's sheild looks like a curling house!) I'll keep looking, but for now, it's eluding me. Anyone else seen…"
"Thanks for highlighting Jeff's threads! I haven't had enough time to do more than peek in on them -- I hadn't realized there were so many!"
"JD: That Joker one is really interesting to me. It'd be really interesting to have a similar volume for villains who might not have their own series, like Lex Luthor or the Penguin. Just one appearance after another, showing the character's…"
"Thanks for posting those, Cap. I think we've mentioned them, but they haven't gotten a lot of attention yet. That Joker one is really interesting to me. It'd be really interesting to have a similar volume for villains who might not have their own…"
"I don't know if these have been discussed yet. From the DC March solicitations, two in April and one in May.
DC FINEST: THE JOKER: THE LAST HA HA
Written by DENNIS O’NEIL, BOB HANEY, ELLIOT S! MAGGIN, and others Art by NEAL ADAMS, IRV NOVICK, JIM…"
DC FINEST: THE JOKER: THE LAST HA HA
Written by DENNIS O’NEIL, BOB HANEY, ELLIOT S! MAGGIN, and others Art by NEAL ADAMS, IRV NOVICK, JIM…"
"The 1950s Superman volume has dropped off the schedule.
Are you freaking kidding me!? That's the one I was looking forward to the most!"
Are you freaking kidding me!? That's the one I was looking forward to the most!"
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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...