"I think Jeff's suggestion is great. If you need more, I'd suggest finding a resource like GCD or another that you canrefer to and use their methodology, rather than making one out of whole cloth."
"But boy, I'd sure like to have them all!
I bought the first two mini-series. Then, in "protest" of an oversaturation of Batman, I dropped future ones, even though this was probably the B-title I was enjoying most at the time. (I sometimes make…"
"Ha! Of course I still trust you. My opinion was biased fromt the start, as I explained, and I'm just jealous everyone else had a better time at the party than I did. I'll add the book above to my Amazon to-buy list. (Along with Danger Street, which…"
"I finally read this, and was a bit disappointed. Mainly because the bar had been set so high here.
That was my fault. :(
I still recommend it to anyone else (who likes super-hero comics), though, keeping in mind Cap's caveat above.
Allow me to make…"
"It's by Sheldon Moldoff, and I was expecting Hawkman-level work.
This is what "pure" Moldoff looks like, without the swipes.
...to my mind Moon Girl was more similar to Wonder Woman than Captain Marvel was to Superman.
Agreed.
I'm guessing the…"
"I finally read this, and was a bit disappointed. Mainly because the bar had been set so high here.
But also because I have never enjoyed stories where the writer puts himself in the story. I did that in a creative writing exercise in 9th or 10th…"
"I started this last night (10/14) and was surprised that the art wasn't better. It's by Sheldon Moldoff, and I was expecting Hawkman-level work. Instread, it was pretty pedestrian Golden Age stuff. Meanwhile the stories were watered-down Wonder…"
"I knew you'd be excited by this! I liked this period fine, but not enough to push something else off the bookshelf to make room for it. Just the same, I enjoy everyone's comments. "
"I hae most of the HCs collecting the various miniseries, and I figure if I'm missing a few, I can continue to miss them. But boy, I'd sure like to have them all! Batman, like film noir, works really well in B&W."
"Nice! I may or may not pick this one up when I'm done with the first Triangle omnibus. My hope is the DC Finest collections will follow up the Time & Time Again volume with some more from this era, as as much as I'm enjoying the stories in this…"
The cover of my copy didn't look like this, though...? Guess I got an alternate cover or something. I don't really care (in this case), but I think I would have preferred the Jim Lee one.
"
"I watched Dan Curtis's Bram Stoker's Dracula, starring Jack Palance, last night. Francis Ford Coppola took a few things from Curtis's version, including putting Bram Stoker in the title. But from what I understand, the connection between Dracula and…"
"I've got four DC Finest volumes on the pile, though I'm really only reading two of them right now: Science Fiction and The Spectre. The SF book, full of short stories, is going slowly, but I'm 200-some pages in. That's dozens of stories already!…"
"And now I've seen through episode 1211. Morgan shot Bramwell in the shoulder, and he's recuperating... and seems to have renounced his love for Catherine. (Is Daphne into him? Could be.) Plus, Morgan and Catherine have married! (And after he refuses…"
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.
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.
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Thanks for the welcome! I've been 'lurking' and reading many a thread for quite a while!
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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...