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    Mispronounciations

    in Comics General

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    When I was a kid me and my brother thought:

    Romita was Romita with a hit sound for mit,  not 'Romeeta'.

    Ross Andru was Ahhndru,  not Andrew. Well, it looked too exotic for plain Andrew. 

    Gil Kane was Jill Kane.

    And perhaps most embarrassingly of all,  Thor wasn't 'Four' but Tor. 

    Even now I still say the wrong sounds in my head but I've conditioned myself not to in public. 

    Am I alone (apart from me brother that is)?

    I ate the new boards.....

    in Comics General

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    Bloomin Nora

    .....and I'm afraid to say that they didn't taste as nice as the old boards.

    In fact, they made me feel quite queasy after a very short while and also made me break wind with alarming ferocity. I have to say the resulting stench was quite unpalatable.

    Has anyone else had an adverse reaction after eating the new boards and, if so, did you break wind violently too?

    Yes, on balance I think it's fair to say I do 'ate those new boards.

    I think I'll stick with jellied eels.

    Cor blimey love a duck.

     

     

     

     

     

    How Rare are Double Cover

    in Comics General

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    On 06/03/2017 at 6:08 AM, Derbyfan701 said:

    I once owned ASM 361 9.9 Signed by Stan Lee with 8 covers :(  ext. cover was 9.6 with 2 9.9 interior covers and the rest 9.8  GOD how I wish i had not sold that one....lol.  

     

    That's interesting. I had a triple cover 361 once - it sold very well on Ebay but I was always worried it may have been a construct. As I recall, the recipient was delighted however and the fact yours had 8 covers shows it may indeed have come from a troubled print run....

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    Why the Message Board Upgrade?

    in Comics General

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    On 13/02/2017 at 2:44 PM, rob_react said:

    My guess is that one of the big drivers is that they wanted a site that worked well on mobile phones and tablets. The old layout was created almost two decades ago and didn't play well with the multi-device environment we operate in these days. 

    As someone who does this stuff for a living, it's insane to me that the layout here hadn't changed in all that time. This layout is new in both the new-to-us sense and in the "new" sense of being an actual modern design. It's not perfect (nothing is) but it works on a phone, which makes me happy.

    What we're experiencing is something that happens whenever anyone with a loyal fanbase makes a design change.  It's called change aversion and it happens with everyone all the time with every redesign. If your users don't hate your redesign, you don't have any users. 

    Two things will happen- we'll get used to it and the design and features are going to be tweaked. It'll be great. Different, but great. 

     

     

    A horse walks into a bar with a guitar looking glum. The barman says "why the long face?"

    The horse says "I wrote this song called 'Dem New Boards Suck'. The chorus is great, but I don't like the rest of it" and proceeds to sing it. 

    The barman listens to the song, ponders for a moment and then says "change a verse?"