AJD

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My original journal is now in the gold forum: https://www.cgccomics.com/boards/topic/312774-ajds-comic-notebook/ 

As the least bad option, I've put in a request to move my old journal holus bolus to Gold. In the past I posted cover scans in gold threads and repeated them, with interior pages and commentary in my journal. I think I'll do the same, but to avoid looking like I'm spamming, I'll probably only cross post significant books to other threads.

1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

Must....not....post...dwarf jokes. Must....resist...

That would be dopey. Though this format might work for them. I hear that fart jokes go OK.

3 hours ago, Point Five said:

Oh man! This new format is a disaster in every way.

 

Yes. Not happy.

Well, that's a bit of a disappointment. Almost everything I've added to my journal thread in the past five years is now marooned. And to add insult to injury, @Duffman_Comics has migrated across as well. Will the indignity never end? (Thanks for dragging that last entry across Peter.)

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As for 'novelet', my style guide of choice, Garner's modern English usage, prefers 'novella' as the description of a short novel. In the entry for diminutives, he notes that french has -ette (feminine) and -et (masculine) forms, and since English does not have gendered nouns, either will do. Hence either bassinet or bassinette is acceptable. Same for novelet or novelette, I suppose.

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1 hour ago, creaturefan95 said:

@AJD What do you think of Atlas' combat covers and stories?

TBH, I've never had one to read, so I have no idea about the contents. The covers are somewhere between the DC and EC ones in terms of realism and composition. As for the All-American Men of War #10 above, those guys with sub machine guns 6 feet away who are both missing must have learned to shoot at the Imperial Storm Troopers academy!   The story isn't great either, though it's not entirely silly. I read a history of Operation Bodenplate recently, and a British soldier managed to shoot down a low-level German fighter with a sub machine gun. So it happened at least once!

I'm afraid these sorts of war comics are why I thought I didn't like the genre until I discovered the ECs. Unrealistic and a bit silly, rather than gritty and human. The "taking out a zero with the drop tank" bit has to be right up there with the worst.

That said, I bought hundreds of British digest-sized war comics as a kid and really like them. I picked up a couple recently out of nostalgia and was appalled by the dialogue - all "Take that Jerry!" and "bang on target old chap, that'll give the huns something to think about".  

On 5 February 2018 at 6:32 AM, 1950's war comics said:

as a minor league military historian i am aware of only three combat photographs that show both attacking and defending soldiers in the same photo

above is one , the other two are both from WW1 and one is well known and published often and the third is quite obscure and fascinating......

Tell me more!  

And congrats to creaturefan on those ECs. My runs of Frontline and TFT are among my favourite books.

Nice! The #7 looks undergraded from here. The eye appeal is excellent and CGC wouldn't knock much (if anything) off for that Marvel chipping.

This will  be a fun journal, and I think we'll all be hoping you get there. I'm inclined to think you've set the $$ a little low considering the early ASM prices, but half the fun is going to be looking for the bargains!