Making Light :: The kind of consumer information our readers need :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:01:31 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.34-en The kind of consumer information our readers need Kyle Baker has made his comics available free on his website! (The ones he has the rights to, I mean.... Kyle Baker has made his comics available free on his website! (The ones he has the rights to, I mean.... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #1 from David Goldfarb comment from David Goldfarb on 23.Jan.13 Rory Root at Comic Relief used to sell Why I Hate Saturn to people with a money-back guarantee. I have never heard that anybody every took him up on it. (I certainly didn't.)

Anyone who doesn't hate the comics medium should certainly check out both it and The Cowboy Wally Show -- and if You Are Here, which I haven't read, is half as good as either of them, then it's really good too.

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 4:01 AM by David Goldfarb</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1210724 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1210724 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:01:31 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #2 from Jonathan Walker comment from Jonathan Walker on 23.Jan.13 Another recommendation for Why I hate Saturn (speaking of strong female protagonists!), which I had to buy second-hand several years ago. Thanks Kyle Baker!

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 7:09 AM by Jonathan Walker</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1210929 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1210929 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:09:18 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #3 from Adam Lipkin comment from Adam Lipkin on 23.Jan.13 I remember, back in the early '90s, attempting to track down copies of Wally, which was between printings and going for way more than a college student could afford. Marlowe's reprint was a godsend, and it was the rare book I'd anticipated that much that lived up to my expectations. Although it's still no Saturn.

The only webcomics I've picked up recently are David Willis's college humor/romance strip Dumbing of Age and M.C.A. Hogarth's business-of-webcomics metacomic The Three Jaguars. I've tried a few more, but I find I don't have the patience for many in my RSS feeds.

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 9:13 AM by Adam Lipkin</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211077 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211077 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:13:03 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #4 from Lenny Bailes comment from Lenny Bailes on 23.Jan.13 Excerpts from "Superman's Babysitter" are available here, in the trufan nexus of comics fandom.. (Don't tell Dan DiDio.)

I really enjoyed his Guy Gardner story, where Gardner calls up the DC Editorial offices and demands a replacement for the artist drawing Justice League. When that doesn't work, Guy storms into the office to issue his ultimatum personally to Andy Helfer, Keith Giffen, and Jim DeMatteis.

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 3:49 PM by Lenny Bailes</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211557 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211557 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:49:44 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #5 from Lenny Bailes gnomed at 4 comment from Lenny Bailes gnomed at 4 on 23.Jan.13 Inserted links, sent to gnomeland.

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 3:52 PM by Lenny Bailes gnomed at 4</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211559 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211559 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:52:11 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #6 from Serge Broom comment from Serge Broom on 23.Jan.13 Just finished reading "Strong Female Protagonist".
Thanks for telling us about this.

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 4:32 PM by Serge Broom</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211587 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211587 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:32:08 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #7 from Darth Paradox comment from Darth Paradox on 23.Jan.13 I read about 80 webcomics on a regular basis (and occasionally catch up with another 20-40 in large chunks). I'd go nuts if I had to track all that in an RSS reader. I found a nifty little site called Piperka that manages my webcomic reading list for me - it tracks how far through the archives of each comic I am. (So if I go away for a couple weeks, when I come back I'll see that I've got 6 pages of comic X to read, and 10 pages of comic Y, and so forth, with links to where I left off in the archives of each.)

It's not always a perfect solution - it scrapes the webpages for its data, so sometimes a redesign of the site will cause it to lose track for a little while until it can reestablish its understanding of how the site works - but it's been working fairly reliably for me for the last seven or eight years.

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 6:51 PM by Darth Paradox</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211703 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211703 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:51:19 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #8 from Lis Riba comment from Lis Riba on 23.Jan.13 Ooh, wow - Cowboy Wally for everyone!

And if you haven't read it, I *strongly* recommend it.

]]> <p>Posted January 23, 2013 7:55 PM by Lis Riba</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211781 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1211781 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:55:16 -0500 The kind of consumer information our readers need -- comment #9 from Craig R. comment from Craig R. on 29.Jan.13 I adored the "Superman's babysitter" story

It, along with "woman of Kleenex," do wonders for my sense of absurdity

]]> <p>Posted January 29, 2013 12:29 PM by Craig R.</p> http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1220282 http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/014775.html#1220282 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:29:37 -0500