It’s been heavily promoted by Legendary Pictures, as only a movie studio can do. Preview pages, an animated short, press releases and coverage everywhere. For it’s first foray into comics Legendary has published Frank Miller’s Holy Terror, his response to 9/11. I’m a huge Frank Miller fan, having read everything he’s ever done. But this book is crap: don’t buy it. I want my money back. End review. Still here? Let’s get into the nitty...
My wife thought we could use a tire swing in the front yard since we have some nice high trees, so she bought some rope for $7 and picked up a free used tire from the local tire shop. She tied the rope to the tire, looped it up around a high branch and tied the other end back to the tire. It was secure and worked. It didn’t seem solid to me, and would present issues when we wanted to take it down for the weekend if we went away. In my...
A comic book site I edit uses a lot of images as you would imagine, but frequently contributors forget to set the Link To section of adding images. More often than not this means instead of readers getting a nice enlarged version of the image popping up on their computer it does nothing (Link To None) or goes to a new page showing the image at the same size (Link To Attachment Page). I’ve asked everyone to make sure this feature is set to...
First off I dropped the “John Byrne’s” from the title so it would be somewhat shorter, and I really don’t like it when a creator’s name is inserted into the title. I had heard Byrne was picking up with the Next Men, fifteen years since the last issue was released by Dark Horse. Now at IDW John Byrne’s Next Men Volume 1: Scattered collects the first four issues. A new chapter begins in the lives of the...
On a website I look after we wanted to add a store for digital downloads, and one of the formats offered would be CBZ, a standard format for unencrypted and DRM free digital comic books. Turns out you need to add that file type to WordPress before you can upload them to the media library. Finding an online solution to adding new file types to WordPress was easy, but the MIME type was required. That proved a little more complicated but internet...
I was setting up a new PC and pulled a 60 GB SSD from an idle system to use in this build. I started the Windows 7 installation but when it trundled along to the hard drive portion no local drives were detected. I rebooted and checked the BIOS, but the drive was recognized. Another step into Windows and the same thing: no drive. A few more trips to the BIOS and adjustments made to hard drive type (AHCI, native mode IDE) but no changes. Furious...
I don’t like pulling images from other sites directly for posts: it’s using the bandwidth from someone else’s website. Instead I’ll save the image, upload it and then credit the image back to the source. I look after a multi-author website and sometimes people forget our policies and I have to edit the post to remove that image URL, download it and upload it. To get around this I wanted to remove the option of...
