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"Oh, wow! Though I have to say, I can't imagine I'd ever get around to reading those books. Maybe one or two, but not the whole series.I'm up to episode 375 now. David and Hallie are investigating the mysterious playroom. There's a lunar eclipse,…"
"Oh, I'm not knocking Shooter/Swan at all! That Mordru story is one of the all-time classics!And Philip, #203 was one of my first Legion stories too! My first was issue #232 -- or that was the first I bought, at least -- but I have distinct memories…"
"The Shooter/Swan era was pretty good, but Bates/Cockrum is where the strip really took off. I'm glad you got to fill in that missing piece of your fandom!"
"Superboy #203 was my first proper Legion story. I missed the Dave Cockrum run but got quickly caught up into Legion lore. It became the first comic I actively collected just by buying it every time I saw it, along with Justice League of America."
"That's really cool, Rob. One of my earliest comics was Superboy #197, equal in its own way (AFAIAC) to Giant-Size X-Men #1, both of which impacted me at roughly the same time."
"I just read the Legion of Super-Heroes DC Finest, Zap Goes the Legion! Or rather, I read the last third or so of it; I'd read the prior stories just last year in the Silver Age Legion Omnibus volume 3. But these stories at the end -- largely written…"
"Most of these books reprint material I already have, so I won't be getting them. But I look forward to what you guys have to say about them -- not only to reminisce, but to see what insights you have that I missed.
I'm honestly deligted to see DC's…"
I'm honestly deligted to see DC's…"
"In addition to Kirby taking over Jimmy Olsen, Denny O'Neil took over the Man of Steel in Superman and Action Comics. This was a bigger change than it seemed at the time, because O'Neil wasn't just a different type of writer than previous…"
"Of those, I'm definitely down for the Superman one (these are books from slightly before I was reading comics, so of course it's my jam), and likely the Batman one too. One thing I liked about the first Batman volume is it has a warts-and-all…"
"Historical? Yes. Important? Yes. But this was a very strange period for Superman. This was when Jack Kirby took over Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen and tried to turn the Man of Steel psychodelic!
And by taking away kryptonite, they had to give a new…"
And by taking away kryptonite, they had to give a new…"
"DC FINEST: SUPERMAN: KRYPTONITE NEVERMORE
Put me down for "Kryptonite Nevermore." Back in 2009 I bought the HC DC Comics Classic Library edition, but it collected only Superman #233-237, 240-242, and the DC Finest edition goes beyond that. To be…"
Put me down for "Kryptonite Nevermore." Back in 2009 I bought the HC DC Comics Classic Library edition, but it collected only Superman #233-237, 240-242, and the DC Finest edition goes beyond that. To be…"
"DC's April solicitations are out, and as usual, the collected editions are solicited a little earlier. I was worried last month that DC might have been slowing down its intial DC Finest launch plans since only two were solicited for May, but the…"
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* One thing I liked in Suicide Squad: Dream Team is the way writer Natalie Maines characterizes Bizarro. He's as childlike as ever, but Maines dispenses with the confusing Bizarro double-talk. I wish more writers would follow…"
* One thing I liked in Suicide Squad: Dream Team is the way writer Natalie Maines characterizes Bizarro. He's as childlike as ever, but Maines dispenses with the confusing Bizarro double-talk. I wish more writers would follow…"
"* Also, since when has Waller been the public face of anything? She's always been the spook pulling the strings and getting others to do her dirty work.Amanda Waller was exposed to the public as the head of the clandestine and criminal Suicide Squad…"
"Okay, I have the 2024 Free Comic Book Day Absolute Power Special Edition, the Absolute Power Ground Zero Special, all four parts of Absolute Power proper, all three parts of Absolute Power: Origins, all seven parts of Absolute Power: Task Force VII…"
"Apparently she had a cameo in the Lego Batman Movie, and the Batman/Scooby-Doo Mysteries, and maybe a couple of other side avenues like that. Nothing major, though."
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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...