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"I believe that Bob Haney wrote those two Teen Titans issue with the Gargoyle.
Haney's Batman is very Protean in nature; he's whatever Batman the story needs him to be."
Haney's Batman is very Protean in nature; he's whatever Batman the story needs him to be."
"Oh, that's gorgeous!And when I was watching last night, and I got to Julia's escape (and Barnabas's failure to escape), I immediately thought of your TARDIS theory."
"Due as much to the murky reproduction of the B&B issues as to my own (late) realization that I already had them (in B&B omnibus v2), DCF "Team-Ups" remains the biggest disappointment of the ones I have bought.
I have read a few of the post-Charlton…"
I have read a few of the post-Charlton…"
"Turns out I have a little to say about the Team-Ups stories I've read so far, after all. (not a lot; about 3-4 issues of each). All the Brave & Bold teamups have been written by Bob Haney; the DC Comics Presents stories were written by Martin Pasko…"
"Oh, I definitely agree the turnaround is much more quick now. And definitely, the market forces were different in the Silver Age... and I think the expectations of almost everyone on this board were shaped by that mindset, where the status quo would…"
"Thanks! I'm sure she's a much richer character as an adult. (Looks like she stuck around through episode 1109, which I watched last night.)"
" I haven't started the new Great British Bump-Off series yet, but I always have a good time reading whatever John Allison writes. The first one was a blast!"
"But without the "let me put my own stamp on it" impulse -- which has existed for ages, just ask John Byrne's Wonder Woman, let alone the Man of Steel -- what incentive is there to attract new and lapsed readers to a new volume of Spider-Man? In all…"
"I haven't dived too deeply into Big Finish, but I think I'll be checking out both of those recordings. Thanks!"
"I've seen through episode 1108 now... almost to the end of the present-day stuff. Sebastian has driven Maggie off to Windcliff, and I guess that's where we'll leave her. Gerard has taken Quentin back in time, and buried him alive...? It looks like…"
"I'm definitely looking forward to that Peacemaker collection. I think those wide-career overviews for little-published characters are really cool. In addition to Aquaman, I've started to read the Harley Quinn and Team-Ups volumes. I haven't gotten…"
"Oh yes. That was emphasized in the 1988 miniseries, but also seen in the early Checkmate appearances in 1989."
"I understand that but what I'm saying is that the Question wasn't portrayed as being unbalanced like Rorsschach was but they wanted one of the Charlton heroes to be unhinged so they picked Peacemaker."
"In some version, his father was a concentration camp Kommandant, wasn't he?"
"I don't think so. Peacemaker's homage in Watchmen was the Comedian. Rorschach is indeed the Question's proxy."
"Right. As I recall it, in the Vigilante appearances he talked to people he had killed, whose voices he believed to hear through his helmet. In his later 1980s appearances he heard only his father's voice (and he had visions of him as well)."
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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...