Glenn has solved the problem and we are back for comment.
Corrected because nobody could follow my subject/verb agreement which was Glenn (singular) as apposed to we (plural and inaccurate since all I did was point out to Glenn that the comments weren’t working)
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Testing?
And the spam is back as well! Woo hoo! 😉
Cool!
So, what should we comment about?
Besides being able to comment, that is.
I dunno if peter has time to notice other comics or read them, but I was curious as to what he thought of recent event happening in Exiles with the addition to spiderman 2099 to the team and the future imperfect storyline.
Had the same problem a few times at my site as well, Glenn. (mymac.com) I hate evil spam-bots. People who deploy (and create them) must DIE.
This is really the only blog I visit so I have to ask…
do all other blog sites have as many problems as this one seems to have?
“We has solved the problem”?
Thanks for all your under appreciated hard work, Glenn…
Ðámņ, Kathleen, I had a response picked out, and you beat me to it. 🙂
I’d just like to take a moment to say from one IT fellow to another….
GLENm YOU ROCK!!
Sometimes IT people feel underappreciated and need to be encouraged every once in a while…
Spelling errors non-withstanding…
Peter, since we’ve basically got a subject-free comment forum, let me just say how much I enjoyed your But I Digress column in CBG #1618 called Pre-release opinions. For those who haven’t seen it, Peter talks about the good old days of comic book buying, when we used to plunk down our 12 cents every month, not knowing what we were going to be reading about, or sometimes if the next issue was even going to come out, as opposed to today’s marketplace, in which we are bombarded with previews and spoilers. While I certainly miss those wondrous days when a couple of buck’s worth of newspaper route money could buy me just about every comic I wanted every week, I do tend to look at various previews nowadays just to see what I’m spending my money on. While there are certain books I would happily pick up each month sight unseen, I’m less interested in spending $2.50 or $3.99 on a book I’m not going to like. That includes checking out who the writer or artist is going to be, if it’s a tie-in with an event book I’m not reading, etc. Happily, since I cashed in my collection and made a killing before the market bottomed out years ago, I’m no longer bound by the collector mentality of having to buy every issue, month in and month out. If a particular book goes in a direction I don’t like, I’ll give it a miss for a few months, checking Previews to see when things pick up again.
And as a total non-sequitur, I popped into Midtown Comics while in New York last week, and was stunned to watch one particular geek who thumbed through each and every stack of new comics (while blocking the view of the people standing behind him) in order to pick up the absolute mintest copy of the pile. If that wasn’t bad enough, the clerk told me that a number of her customers didn’t actually like touching their new comics while ringing them up! Which was sort of ironic, she said, because she’d already touched them the night before, while putting them on the shelves.
Anyway, going back to one of the main points of Peter’s piece, I do regret the ever-increasing number of spoilers that we’re exposed to every day, whether they’re about comics, film or next week’s episode of Lost. As a creative person, I can certainly sympathize with Peter’s frustration about spoilers ruining a surprise in a story he spent weeks or months trying to craft, but as a realist, I have to point out that we live in a very different time. If the Internet had been around when we were kids, I have no doubt whatsoever that we would have been exposed to some of those spoilers back then. If there was a AICN or Newsarama, we certainly would have known about the death of Gwen Stacy, or the fact that Darth Vader was Luke’s dad. When you live in an age of information, sometimes you’ve got to take the good with the bad.
Having said that, I may have been forced to give up a big chunk of my fan-based enthusiasm when I became a journalist covering some of these projects. I just spent most of the morning writing a story about the current season of Doctor Who, trying to eliminate any details that might potentially ruin things for our readers, many of whom don’t want to known anything until they’ve seen an episode. Unfortunately, I didn’t have that luxury myself, being married to somebody who worked on the production, but that’s just the nature of the job. So maybe I’m more of a realist about these things.
Anyway Peter, while I enjoyed the piece, I’m not sure I can agree with much of what you’re saying. If we were still living in the era of 12 cent comics maybe. But not in the day where they cost almost four bucks a pop.
I now return everybody to their comment-free space.