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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2022 13:38:19 GMT -5
Ohh interesting! As someone who doesn't get their comics graded or anything I didn't mind the stamp, it just confused me haha.
Actually, even if you did grade your books, a date stamp isn't penalised much, if at all, as long as it's not too obtrusive.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2022 13:39:19 GMT -5
Also if anyone has a good way to make my images smaller without losing quality I'd love to hear, I feel like the images being this big makes it harder to read the post, and takes up so much room. I'm pretty new to forums (or new again since I was on them as a kid), and don't remember how to do anything lol. Nice mix of comics here! I haven't read Ms. Tree in forever but remember enjoying that title back in the day. For resizing images, a number of different ways to do it, but personally I just resize in MS Paint (literally just open the image file in Paint and select "resize"). Here's your Archie resized to 525x700 for example and rehosted:  |
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Post by itsamammal on Dec 12, 2022 13:50:11 GMT -5
Also if anyone has a good way to make my images smaller without losing quality I'd love to hear, I feel like the images being this big makes it harder to read the post, and takes up so much room. I'm pretty new to forums (or new again since I was on them as a kid), and don't remember how to do anything lol. Nice mix of comics here! I haven't read Ms. Tree in forever but remember enjoying that title back in the day. For resizing images, a number of different ways to do it, but personally I just resize in MS Paint (literally just open the image file in Paint and select "resize"). Here's your Archie resized to 525x700 for example and rehosted: Thanks, yeah I've been interested in Ms. Tree for a long time. I collect the Hard Case Crime book imprint, and one of the first I read back in highschool was The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins, and have become a huge fan of him since. Road to Perdition is amazing, and his Dick Tracy movie novelization is another favorite of mine, so yeah Ms. Tree is absolutely up my alley. I had just never seen it in person, and never cared enought to buy a whole lot off eBay or something. The place I bought these had a lot more Ms Tree, and a lot of indie books I'd like to grab like a bunch of issues of Yummy Fur, but they'll have to wait lol.
Ah cool! Thanks a lot, I'll be sure to do that before uploading my Christmas haul haha
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Post by MDG on Dec 12, 2022 15:04:51 GMT -5
Also if anyone has a good way to make my images smaller without losing quality I'd love to hear, I feel like the images being this big makes it harder to read the post, and takes up so much room. I'm pretty new to forums (or new again since I was on them as a kid), and don't remember how to do anything lol. Nice mix of comics here! I haven't read Ms. Tree in forever but remember enjoying that title back in the day. For resizing images, a number of different ways to do it, but personally I just resize in MS Paint (literally just open the image file in Paint and select "resize"). Here's your Archie resized to 525x700 for example and rehosted: An easier way to resize either your own images or others picked up from the web (which is what I do 90% of the time) is just to add this bit of code to the image link in the BBCode:
In the quote from @jaska above, I changed the image reference to:
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2022 16:08:39 GMT -5
MDG That's a good tip, I also like to resize my personal images just to cut down on local storage, and also rehost anything picked up externally because I feel like I'm taking someone else's bandwidth by direct linking, so I end up just quickly resizing those as well before I re-upload.
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Post by itsamammal on Dec 12, 2022 16:58:02 GMT -5
Nice mix of comics here! I haven't read Ms. Tree in forever but remember enjoying that title back in the day. For resizing images, a number of different ways to do it, but personally I just resize in MS Paint (literally just open the image file in Paint and select "resize"). Here's your Archie resized to 525x700 for example and rehosted: An easier way to resize either your own images or others picked up from the web (which is what I do 90% of the time) is just to add this bit of code to the image link in the BBCode: In the quote from @jaska above, I changed the image reference to:
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Post by spoon on Dec 12, 2022 17:57:40 GMT -5
 Last, but not least, this Ironman graphic novel from the Epic Graphic Novel Line. I know absolutely nothing about it, but it was cheap and the claim of "The first computer generated graphic novel" has me iintrigued. I assume it was just drawn and colored digitally, but this would have been from the early or mid 80s, so that's pretty interesting. Late 80s (1988). Coincidentally, this graphic novel is included in the Iron Man Epic Collection (Return of the Ghost) that's scheduled to be released tomorrow. I pre-ordered that, so I'll be interested to read it. Also coincidentally, the next comic I was planned to read was Batman: Digital Justice, another GN with computer-drawn art from 1990. |
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Post by itsamammal on Dec 12, 2022 19:37:37 GMT -5
Last, but not least, this Ironman graphic novel from the Epic Graphic Novel Line. I know absolutely nothing about it, but it was cheap and the claim of "The first computer generated graphic novel" has me iintrigued. I assume it was just drawn and colored digitally, but this would have been from the early or mid 80s, so that's pretty interesting. Late 80s (1988). Coincidentally, this graphic novel is included in the Iron Man Epic Collection (Return of the Ghost) that's scheduled to be released tomorrow. I pre-ordered that, so I'll be interested to read it. Also coincidentally, the next comic I was planned to read was Batman: Digital, another GN with computer-drawn art from 1990. Oh neat, and what a weird coincidence lol I'd never heard of it till I picked it up yesterday. I assumed early to mid 80s because I thought they stopped doing the Epic Graphic Novel series when they started doing the Marvel Graphic Novel series. Not that I had any reason to think that, I guess I just assumed lol. I have never read Batman Digital, but now that you mention it I think my dad has it somewhere. I was born in 93 and grew up reading his comics which he collected mostly in the 80s and early 90s. |
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Post by spoon on Dec 12, 2022 20:18:02 GMT -5
Late 80s (1988). Coincidentally, this graphic novel is included in the Iron Man Epic Collection (Return of the Ghost) that's scheduled to be released tomorrow. I pre-ordered that, so I'll be interested to read it. Also coincidentally, the next comic I was planned to read was Batman: Digital, another GN with computer-drawn art from 1990. Oh neat, and what a weird coincidence lol I'd never heard of it till I picked it up yesterday. I assumed early to mid 80s because I thought they stopped doing the Epic Graphic Novel series when they started doing the Marvel Graphic Novel series. Not that I had any reason to think that, I guess I just assumed lol. I have never read Batman Digital, but now that you mention it I think my dad has it somewhere. I was born in 93 and grew up reading his comics which he collected mostly in the 80s and early 90s. I left out a word in the title, because I lost my train of thought mid-sentence. The title is Batman: Digital Justice. During Batman's 50th anniversary in 1989, there was a book that my older brother on the history of the character that came out. Digital Justice was discussed at the end of the book (even though it hadn't been released yet) as an example of where things might be going. I think my older might actually have owned a copy of Digital Justice back in the early 90s, but if so I never read it. I know you're relatively to CCF; I didn't you were that young. I was was born in 1979, and I usually think of myself as one of the younger members. Now, I'm interested to see your posts for your perspective on comics way before your time. |
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Post by itsamammal on Dec 12, 2022 20:27:48 GMT -5
Oh neat, and what a weird coincidence lol I'd never heard of it till I picked it up yesterday. I assumed early to mid 80s because I thought they stopped doing the Epic Graphic Novel series when they started doing the Marvel Graphic Novel series. Not that I had any reason to think that, I guess I just assumed lol. I have never read Batman Digital, but now that you mention it I think my dad has it somewhere. I was born in 93 and grew up reading his comics which he collected mostly in the 80s and early 90s. I left out a word in the title, because I lost my train of thought mid-sentence. The title is Batman: Digital Justice. During Batman's 50th anniversary in 1989, there was a book that my older brother on the history of the character that came out. Digital Justice was discussed at the end of the book (even though it hadn't been released yet) as an example of where things might be going. I think my older might actually have owned a copy of Digital Justice back in the early 90s, but if so I never read it. I know you're relatively to CCF; I didn't you were that young. I was was born in 1979, and I usually think of myself as one of the younger members. Now, I'm interested to see your posts for your perspective on comics way before your time. Haha yeah I assumed I'd be one.of the youngest people here. My dad barely 20 when I was born, and still into nerdy stuff so I grew up on 80s cartoons like He-man and comics mostly from the 80s. People have always told me I have an "old soul". Over my time here I'm sure I'll talk about this magical junk shop from my childhood where I picked up loads of comics from the 60s and 70s for like 25 cents each, so I really did grow up with classic comics, just a few decades after the fact haha. |
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Post by tonebone on Dec 12, 2022 21:54:59 GMT -5
Decided to treat myself, while Christmas shoppng, with some new old comic books yesterday from this really cool four story antique store downtown.  That Archie with that hilariously bad fatphobic joke on the cover is from Dec 1967, 55 years old this month! It's also super high grade, atleast as far as I can tell. It's been read before, including by me yesterday lol, and there's a date stamped on the cover (the wrong date, it says October 1967, but this is the December issue?), but otherwise this thing is pretty prestine considering I got it from a junk shop. It's not a "fatphobic" joke... he's mad about how much she's eating because it's costing him more money. Has nothing to do with fat. |
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Post by itsamammal on Dec 13, 2022 1:23:27 GMT -5
Decided to treat myself, while Christmas shoppng, with some new old comic books yesterday from this really cool four story antique store downtown. That Archie with that hilariously bad fatphobic joke on the cover is from Dec 1967, 55 years old this month! It's also super high grade, atleast as far as I can tell. It's been read before, including by me yesterday lol, and there's a date stamped on the cover (the wrong date, it says October 1967, but this is the December issue?), but otherwise this thing is pretty prestine considering I got it from a junk shop. It's not a "fatphobic" joke... he's mad about how much she's eating because it's costing him more money. Has nothing to do with fat. I'd say yes and no, I mean the check is there, but it is implying Twiggy is thinner than Veronica, and believe me a woman would absolutely take that as a stab at weight. I mean I clearly wasn't too bothered or I'd not have bought it. |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 13, 2022 4:30:53 GMT -5
It's not a "fatphobic" joke... he's mad about how much she's eating because it's costing him more money. Has nothing to do with fat. I'd say yes and no, I mean the check is there, but it is implying Twiggy is thinner than Veronica, and believe me a woman would absolutely take that as a stab at weight. I mean I clearly wasn't too bothered or I'd not have bought it. No, the joke is about how much it's costing Archie to take Veronica on that date. That is the only joke. Archie's eyes are firmly on the check to ram home the point. Of course, it is implying that Twiggy eats less than Veronica, by dint of her being thinner, but it is absolutely not implying that Veronica's larger figure is what Archie is laughing at or having a dig at. I agree that in real life a woman might assume such a remark was a criticism of her weight, but this isn't real life and that is not what's happening there on the cover. Archie is criticising Veronica's gluttony when he's paying the bill, not having a dig at her figure. |
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Post by dbutler69 on Dec 13, 2022 19:21:35 GMT -5
I'd say yes and no, I mean the check is there, but it is implying Twiggy is thinner than Veronica, and believe me a woman would absolutely take that as a stab at weight. I mean I clearly wasn't too bothered or I'd not have bought it. No, the joke is about how much it's costing Archie to take Veronica on that date. That is the only joke. Archie's eyes are firmly on the check to ram home the point. Of course, it is implying that Twiggy eats less than Veronica, by dint of her being thinner, but it is absolutely not implying that Veronica's larger figure is what Archie is laughing at or having a dig at. I agree that in real life a woman might assume such a remark was a criticism of her weight, but this isn't real life and that is not what's happening there on the cover. Archie is criticising Veronica's gluttony when he's paying the bill, not having a dig at her figure. Agreed. How prominently the word "Check" is displayed on the cover, plus the fact that Archie is looking at said check (not at Veronica) plus he's reaching for his wallet at the time, clearly shows that he's only referring to how much money he's spent to feed her. However, with how hypersensitive everybody is the days, no doubt any female would assume that he's calling her fat, and thus be offended. |
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Post by tonebone on Dec 15, 2022 10:31:55 GMT -5
No, the joke is about how much it's costing Archie to take Veronica on that date. That is the only joke. Archie's eyes are firmly on the check to ram home the point. Of course, it is implying that Twiggy eats less than Veronica, by dint of her being thinner, but it is absolutely not implying that Veronica's larger figure is what Archie is laughing at or having a dig at. I agree that in real life a woman might assume such a remark was a criticism of her weight, but this isn't real life and that is not what's happening there on the cover. Archie is criticising Veronica's gluttony when he's paying the bill, not having a dig at her figure. Agreed. How prominently the word "Check" is displayed on the cover, plus the fact that Archie is looking at said check (not at Veronica) plus he's reaching for his wallet at the time, clearly shows that he's only referring to how much money he's spent to feed her. However, with how hypersensitive everybody is the days, no doubt any female would assume that he's calling her fat, and thus be offended. Yeah, I feel like this was a big ol' case of.....  |
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