I started a tumblr blog, mainly because I realized I didn’t want to clutter this place up with dozens of random links when there’s a service specifically for that. Not that everything here has to be a lengthy involved dissertation, but I don’t want to fill my homepage full of passing fancies and other shiny objects, even my own.
Time will tell whether this becomes a regular part of my routine or just another Google+ along the way, but I waited until I thought I had a legitimate use for the account anyway, so that’s something.
…just might be coloring his differing assessments of his own character.
“I admire the character (of Jaka) far more than any of the other characters in the book…Jaka on the other hand is someone I would happily spend a lot of time with. She embodies those qualities I always look for in a woman. She has a very simple way of thinking for which she is unapologetic. She’s loaded with common-sense and self-confidence. She is direct and has a low threshold for bull-shit. She has virtually no interest in material possessions though she has an appreciation of them. She is almost certainly on the top rung of the karmic ladder and won’t be back for another life-time.” – Dave Sim, Cerebus 114, Sept. 1988
“For the first time he (Cerebus) was able to see Jaka precisely as she was and as she is and as she always would be: a spoiled, myopic, insensitive, self-absorbed and self-important harlot princess.” – Dave Sim, Cerebus 268, July 2001
This is regarding the ipad version of ComicBookLover. It’s a good app, but you seriously need to add an option to display comics in the library by filename only and ignore tags.
Although I’m sure you and the vocal users on your forums probably use tags, 95% of people or more who use your software are never going to bother with tags if the files don’t already come tagged, which very few do. As a result, the average user experience of your product is to see “(Unknown series)(Unknown series)(Unknown series)(Unknown series)(Unknown series)(Unknown series)” all over the place. That gets really old, and there’s no way to change it on the ipad.
Right now, the way it comes off is that it’s like you want to force people to use the desktop version of the software — if they even have a Mac, since it’s Mac-only — and devote a significant portion of their time to tagging every file they have before loading them up on their ipad if they want to avoid a library full of “Unknown series”. I can tell you now that practically no one has the time or inclination for that. These comics get thrown on, read in ten minutes, and deleted to clear space; to spend even a minute per book would be a pointless waste of my life.
Also: I know what series it is. It’s in the filename. It’s only your software that doesn’t know what series it is, and I don’t need it to let me know constantly that it doesn’t know. I don’t care.
Either way, I’ll likely continue to use and recommend ComicBookLover (unless as a result of posting this open letter on my website someone recommends a superior product to me), but if you’d do this one thing you’d eliminate a minor but constant annoyance caused by your otherwise terrific product and improve user experience for a huge percentage of the userbase.
One month in and Barry is so put off by his new wife’s refusal to drop everything for his sudden impulses, he’s not sure if he can even trust her anymore. Then again, maybe this is the first time Iris really got a good look at him and noticed his severe facial asymmetry.
Seems like Wally could’ve shaved a second or two off that rescue by not taking the time to switch clothes. It’s just the two of them out there anyway, Tommy will probably notice that Wally West is suddenly absent from the huge empty field, particularly after the kid who can run at the speed of light thought shouting a warning was a worthwhile use of time and energy.
This was one of those things I read about as a kid and then wondered for years afterward if I’d dreamed it or what. From the Amazing Heroes Preview Special #2, Winter 1986 (coincidentally co-edited by Mark Waid, who would go on to write his own justifiably acclaimed run of The Flash):
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To put this into context, at the time this came out DC had just finished publishing Crisis On Infinite Earths, issue #8 of which featured the death of Silver Age Flash Barry Allen and in issue #12 of which Kid Flash Wally West picked up the scarlet speedsuit. As a Flash fan at the time, I hadn’t been at all thrilled about the former, but the pain had been somewhat mitigated by the promise implied by the latter. And now, news that in fact Wally wasn’t even a lock for the next Flash series? That it might not even star a super-speed character? THE HORROR.
Of course nothing ever came of this and Wally ended up getting his own series by Mike Baron and Jackson Guice in 1987, but I’d love to know how far along this other concept got before it was scrapped and whatever became of it, especially if there was any concept artwork. I do recall thinking that the Tangent version of the Flash sounded somewhat similar at least as far as having light-based powers, but it’s really not much of a leap to go from the name “The Flash” to light-based powers once you decide you’re not locked into super-speed. Still, I’d love to know if there’s any connection between the two.
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