Quote from: Captain Jetpack on December 30, 2016, 06:31:46 PM
Sears just got a $200,000,000 injection of capital.
Can it save the business?

Money down the hole. It's extremely rare for a floundering business to recover to prosperity. I'm sure there's an example or two, but I don't remember right off....

I wish Sears would just die already, the same for Kmart. Put the suffering creature out of its misery.... 

Quote from: yashok on December 27, 2016, 09:25:19 AM
Yup, that's the one! Thanks so much - you're a lifesaver!

You're welcome!    Glad to help.... 

Quote from: yashok on December 27, 2016, 07:32:19 AM
Does anyone have scans of this story by any chance? It's also been reprinted in Archie Andrews Where Are You #104. I'd be eternally grateful! I need it for a grad project.

I don't know if it's the same story, since ACP uses the same title in many of it's stories over the years, but on page 13 of my album (the FIRST one, not the second one), I have that title story. It's where Betty's carrying Archie in her arms as a dare, I guess. The entire gang (including yes, Ronica) ends up carrying him, with Moose as the last one. Hope this is what you're looking for....

Berserk UP - loading again, in my second album, and there are some doozies, if I say so myself, at least to me. Enjoy! 

Been bizzy with both albums a little, adding something here and there. More to come! 


P.S.: It's a little embarrassing, being since DR told me about the snipping tool and getter MUCH better resolution, but I'm going to upload my newest stuff via the old way until they're all gone. You see, I had just printed out a large contingent of things beforehand, and doggone it, I forgot which books and digital books they came from.    Since I have them all on paper, I might as well use them. Just giving you guys (especially DR) a heads up if you see a slightly inferior resolution. One thing I'm definitely going to do from now on is try to put the pages in stories from left to right instead of the other way, so they can be read easier. Afterwards it's going to be snipping!! 

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 24, 2016, 01:53:37 AM
Many people get depressed about their problems in the dead of winter, and especially around Christmastime, when it seems easy to glance around at other people you know (or who you see on TV) whose lives seem like they must be easier, or who seem happier than you. At times like these it's helpful to have a clear perspective on where your own personal problems fall on the true scale of human misery, but for an accident of birth in time and space.

   
• Instead of a cold, you could have AIDS, cancer, the ebola virus, a congenital deteriorating nerve disease, or just be slowly starving to death.
• Instead of dealing with a car with mechanical problems, you could be dealing with the sudden death of a beloved spouse or close family member or friend, or the loss of an arm or a leg.
• Instead of having unpaid bills piling up, you could be another man's slave, a political dissident being imprisoned, tortured, or crucified for your beliefs, or an innocent Jew in Nazi Germany whose entire worldly possessions have been confiscated who's being sent with your whole family to a concentration camp.
• Instead of facing a bad quarterly review, you could be facing the Spanish Inquisition, a firing squad under Josef Stalin's regime, a lynch mob, or be unjustly sentenced to Death Row.

These are not flukes in human history, nor are they things of the past that no longer happen somewhere to someone, or will never happen again. We're talking about millions upon millions of people that were affected by those few examples I chose to mention, and these are only a few of the more recognizable examples of people with REAL problems. For every one of the recognizable examples, there are tens of thousands of unknown or forgotten tragedies and other examples of true human misery, each of which affected vast numbers of people, and it's only the luck of the draw that you happened to be born in the time and place that you were, and free of thousands of potential health problems that severely reduce the span and quality of human life. From any realistic perspective, you are one of the lucky ones.

There's something to think about at Christmas.

In short: It could be worse. Much, MUCH worse. Suddenly, I'm feeling even better about my situation. Thank you, DR.... 

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 06, 2016, 03:53:38 PM
REGGIE AND ME #1 - It's readable, but definitely one of Tom DeFalco's lesser efforts at scripting for ACP. There's no problem following the story, at least. The biggest criticisms here are ones that generally apply to most of the New Riverdale comic books, i.e.: (A) not much happens in the course of 20 pages, and (B) what does happen isn't particularly funny, or even that interesting. I will admit that there are a lot of classic-style ACP 5 or 6 page stories where you could fairly say that "not much happens", but as long as the story is funny, it hardly matters -- you didn't invest much money or time in those 5 or 6 pages. Another thing that occurs to me is that it's a lot easier to forgive Reggie for being such a total dick as long as it's for the purposes of humor and entertainment -- but when he behaves the same way and he's not being funny, it makes him much less likeable as a character. There's probably no good reason for copying the format of B&V here and having the story narrated by Reggie's dog Vader. The information conveyed in the captions could just as easily be delivered by a disembodied omniscient narrator. The artwork wasn't terrible, or particularly good either, not the worst artwork to appear in a NR comic, but nowhere near the best, either.

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS #3 - Might as well admit here that I only picked this up to read the classic reprint in back. I attempted to read the new lead story, but half-a-dozen pages in the dialogue was so boring and tedious that I just gave up and skimmed the rest. Good god, reading an Archie comic book shouldn't feel like work, and this feels like trudging through waist-deep molasses. Audrey Mok's artwork isn't bad, and I could probably get to like it if the writing on this title wasn't nearly incomprehensible. All in all, some of the best art I've seen in a NR comic (aside from Derek Charm), along with absolutely the worst writing on any of the NR comics so far, which is a real shame.

SPOILER ALERT:
I think the writers were being cute here, and thought they were being clever, with the old Saturday morning cartoon version of Josie and the Pussycats, with the villain and all. I thought the way the Josie/Alexandra angle was being played had an interesting take: On the surface, from Josie's POV, Alexandra was the bad gal, but then Alexandra turned the tables, and made Josie really to be the one who's fault it was. However, I don't think Josie was really using Alexandra's money because they'd still be "friends" now just for the money angle where Josie could ride the gravy train. Josie basically used Alexandra, but not for the money. I think Josie just grew apart from her, but didn't let Alexandra know how much Josie's drifting hurt Alexandra, who grew resentful...

Quote from: Captain Jetpack on December 23, 2016, 07:20:14 PM
Oil no longer leaking.Bills can be paid.
Quarterly review is doable.
I have juice.

Getting over my cold as well. And yep, the bills sure can be paid. We're in sync! 

Quote from: Captain Jetpack on December 23, 2016, 08:11:41 AM
I have a cold.


Merry Xmas.

Well, I too have a cold, and a bill or two to pay, and not enough money to get gifts for all the people I want to give them to. I wish I could do more, so I feel your pain, dude.... 

Quote from: DeCarlo Rules on December 22, 2016, 01:35:52 PM
The difference is apparent to me at a glance, just looking at the thumbnails in your folder. The colors are brighter, the whites are whiter, and the blacks are blacker. Of course you lose a little bit of the resolution of the original image no matter what (and ACP's digitally scanned images are not what you'd call "hi-res" to begin with), but capturing the image directly from the screen is obviously a vast improvement. You could even use the snipping tool when viewing an original digital page that you've already previously printed and then scanned and uploaded to compare the two resulting images side-by-side.

And even if it weren't, think of the time and money (paper and ink) it's saving you.

Yes, definitely a vast improvement. I pinned the snipping tool to my taskbar. Now, this wouldn't work with old books, though, right? Just the screen images of digitals? 

Looks as if everything worked, DR. Thanks again for the instructions. For anyone interested, the newest Josie story is in my second album...

Hm. Thanks, DR. I'll check this out. I really didn't know my scanning images were that bad... 

Hey, guys. I'm trying to print a few pages from an old Josie and the Pussycats story that I love to download here, but can't off my Madefire site. There seems to be nothing that I can use to print then scan it. What say you?    Thanks in advance....

Quote from: Captain Jetpack on December 19, 2016, 05:14:53 PM
All problems gone, all by themselves.

Wow, that's some computer!