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#17
Books & Comics / Re: Shift Comic - new UK anthology
22 March, 2024, 04:59:28 PM
Well you could knock me sideways. I got an email this morning telling me Shift 2.8 has been dispatched. I mean I'll wait to see what actually lands but could this be coming back from the dead?

If so some comms would have been nice - but guess that would have spoiled the surprise. Has a lot of work to do with the 3 remaining issues of my current sub to make me even vaguely think about resubscribing but heck who knows.
#18
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
21 March, 2024, 07:45:02 PM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 21 March, 2024, 07:43:19 PM
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 21 March, 2024, 07:05:19 PMLook those video pictures show nothin' you got nuthuin' on us mate so I'd keep it shut okay.

I've never seen Colin go FULL THUG before, and it's got me worried.

That's right, that right. Colin's a good boy. A nice boy and done no wrong to not no one. And don't you forget it if anyone asks... anyone...
#19
General / Re: Angela Kincaid
21 March, 2024, 07:05:19 PM
Look those video pictures show nothin' you got nuthuin' on us mate so I'd keep it shut okay.

Anyway we warned him right. I mean Ben Ninety was just askin' for it.
#20
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 11:24:21 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 10:21:05 AMI found this on YouTube- the same episode had an art competition based around Rubik's Cube puns, which I vaguely remembered from my distant childhood. What I didn't remember was a kid's drawing of the 'Kube Klux Klan' - it was accepta-bulll in the eeiighties, I suppose.

Oh my giddy art that sounds amazing - I've got to finish watching Ghost World tonight but I know what might well be next!
#21
Quote from: AlexF on 21 March, 2024, 09:52:25 AMcolin, you're gonna have to work hard to persuade me there are 93 comics better than this  :lol:

Well we're up to 97 with add on now! I do wonder if I'd read as much as you have (I did have the original Tundra issues back in the day but they are long gone) how much higher this might be. Allred is SUCH a talent its a shame that neessity drives him to have to do so much work for the big two rather than folks buy this creator owned stuff so he can concentrate on that.

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 21 March, 2024, 10:38:37 AMColin: Looks like what you own maps very closely to the fourth library edition. So... that's a lot of comics before the bit you love. (Feels a bit intimidating to dip into, but I've long been tempted. I just have that completist problem though. I'd bloody love these to be done as a Humble Bundle...)

Oh man yeah that would be so good - a Humble Bundle - but then I'd feel even more compelled to buy the physical copies I bet. I noticed a couple of Library editions going for under £50 on ebay this morning and nearly broke!
#22
Film & TV / Re: Nostalgia TV
21 March, 2024, 08:19:52 AM
Quote from: JayzusB.Christ on 21 March, 2024, 08:00:19 AMWell feck me pink. I've got a bit addicted to Lee and Herring's old stuff so stuck on an old episode of Tiswas for a break from it. Twenty minutes in Sally reads out a joke from Stewart Lee from Solihull, who's trying to win an Ultravox album.  A little bit of research confirms it's very probably the same Stewart Lee. There's no escape.

HA! That's brilliant - did he win?

And also where does one find old episodes of Tiswas?
#23


Number 94 - Madman- the issues I've read

Keywords: Care free, exciting, alt-superhero, incomplete

Creators:
Writer - Mike Allred + others
Art - Mike Allread + others
Colours - Laura Allred

Publisher: Various but I'm talking about the comics published by Image here.

No. issues: There's a lot of Madman comics, but I'm talking about 17 Madman and 12 IT Girl comics here, with a few other bits and bobs so we're looking at about 30 comics in this entry.

Date of Publication: Ongoing - well Madman is, but the comics I'm discussing are from 2007 to 2009 and 2012-13

Last read: 2013

So after writing up tricky entries for both Watchmen and From Hell you'd think whatever came next would be easy. However this listing is as much about how I approach my comic collecting as the comics themselves. So please indulge me as I discuss


Copyright - Mike and Laura Allred

See with almost all the comics I love when I get into a series, creators run or characters created by and associated with a creator, I'm lucky enough these days to have enough disposable income to normally be able to track down the full set. This is not the case with Madman where I currently just have one complete series. To make matters worse just over a ⅓ of the comics I'm discussing here aren't even Madman comics or by Mike Allred... this is going to take some unpicking isn't it!

Okay so let's set off with what comics I am discussing here, the Madman 'world' comics I'm writing about, as they are the only ones I own are:

Madman Atomic Comics - 1-17
IT Girl! And the Atomics - 1-12
Superman + Madman Hullablaoo! - 1-3

And that's it. A quick count from the Wikipedia pages suggests there's at least 40-50 other Madman Comics out there, since his creation in 1990. In fact there will be 6 500+ page Library editions which Dark Horse are currently releasing which collect all the Madman and Madman adjacent Mike Allred comics and that would be, what, about 150 US size comics or there about. I do have some of these and don't consider them Madman comics, but those figures illustrate the key point here. I'm talking about less then a third of what could be included if I had everything.


Copyright - Mike and Laura Allred

Before I go too far down the road of investigating why I have so little of what's available I need to backtrack and discuss what Madman is and their world.

Madman was created by Mike Allred 1990 in Creatures of the ID for Calibur Comics. He appeared there as Frank Einstein, a reference to Frank Sinartra, Albert Einstein and of course Frankenstein. He was pretty different to the character we know now, though the fundamentals were all there and Frank Einstein is still Madman's real name. As he journeyed through a number of short series across a series of publishers, from Caliber to the short lived Tundra, finally settling at Dark Horse for a 20 issue series, he very quickly became the Madman we now know.

That is Zane Townsend resurrected after being killed in a car crash by two scientists. The resurrection process left Zane with no memory of his past and some supernatural and superhuman abilities, which are quite loosely defined. He is super agile and is able to learn and absorb information at an incredible rate. Madman goes on to have a series of superhero-adjacent adventures that move away from the traditional ideas and play with ideas of existence, identity, the nature of reality, other philosophies and good ol' rock and roll. It's easy to underestimate innovative and inventive story ideas in Madman comics as they are joyous, fizzy off kilter action adventure stories. He's used as a vehicle for the Allreds to explore all the ideas and themes that tickle their fancy away from the mainstream.

IT Girl! Starts her comic life as Luna Romy, a member of a gang of 'street beatniks' who originally blame Madman for a disfiguring mutation that inflicts them. And they superhero fight! It transpires the disfiguring mutation is a nascent stage in a transformation triggered by an alien spore to them all developing super-powers, which they do. So far so generic superhero. However as the gang complete their transformation and for most the disfigurements disappear to be replaced by wondrous powers - in IT Girls! case the ability to absorb the traits and abilities of anyone or thing she touches (hello there Crusher Kreel!) - they form a rock group - The Atomics. The band likewise have offbeat adventures and go on to tour space in the rock and roll sense of tour.


Copyright - Mike and Laura Allred

The stories I've read start with Madman in a catatonic state after the events from the previous series, which I'd not read. Mike Allred is a supreme storyteller however and while in that coma and reflecting on the nature of perception and existence what you don't know peels away and matters less as you are dropped in at the deep end, but masterfully guided through what you need to know. While that set up might in less skilled hands feel like a horrible starting point for me it was the perfect introduction to what the series was and can be, rather than what it appears to be on the surface. Fair to say judging by reactions from long term fans the start of this series was harder for them, as they seemed to be expecting more of the same they'd had before.

After recovering Frank has to deal with losing the love of his life as her soul merges with IT Girl oh and zombie robots. More off the wall adventures follow and these 17 issues wrap up superbly to give a self contained beginning, middle and end - with doors for more well and truly left open as Madman and the Atomics meet Red Rocket 7 (another rock group from a series I own but haven't yet read) and go off on an interstella tour.

Well I say Atomics, IT Girl is left behind and this leads into her solo series by Jamies S Rich and Mike Norton. It Girl and a couple of her fellow Atomics remain behind in Snap City - Madman's home town. Far from being traditional superhero tropes of seeing how a new guardian in the established setting deals with the same old threats (there is no such thing as the same old threats in the Allredverse as I really should be calling the wider Madman universe!) It's quiet, IT Girl gets bored and allows herself to be experimented on by Dr Flem - one of the scientists who created Madman and once again crazy fun adventures begin.


Copyright - Mike and Laura Allred - though art here is by Mike Norton

The IT Girl series plays more directly with traditional superhero ideas but again, but don't expect the typical as it kicks on so far beyond that once its had its playful fun with the tropes of the genre.

So this leaves us with two key things to discuss. Firstly, why do I like these comics so much? And given that I do, why don't I own more of them, after all I seem to be setting myself up in this very thread as a massive comics fanboy. Okay so let's start from the top.

When discussing what makes the Allredverse so bloody good you have to start with the art. It's an artistic triumph. His art is just sublime. I've waxed lyrical about the Allred's art in a previous entry for X-Statix #104 so I don't want to repeat myself again here. Suffice to say the art here has all the same qualities, but is even better in these Madman comics. It pops, lives and breathes and is imbued with such joyous energy and blistering design that I find it hard to imagine anyone not falling in love with it - though art and subjective and all that some folks must hate it... but they are wrong!

That's fine I love the Allred's visuals - and I will be returning to them a little more when we get to the story and storytelling - but ⅓ (ish) of these comics are by a different art team in the IT Girl series. Well Mike Norton's work on that is fantastic too. I mean okay it's not Mike Allred fantastic but few are. Mike Norton's cartooning has such playful energy, it too pops and fizzes along. It's fun and playful on the eye. It's charming and a delight to look at. So while the art changes between the series it doesn't miss a beat and remains a key strength throughout.

There are a few fill-in issues across both series but they are all fun art jobs and don't detract, in fact add to the sense of fun, scale and wonder of the worlds and ideas being explored.

All the terms applied to what makes the art so good can also be applied to the stories across both series. They pop, feel fresh and alive. They play with familiar tropes, particularly IT Girl, but do so in such a punchy inventive, leftfield way as to feel entirely different and original. Which in a field as cramped as the superhero genre is quite something. The join between Jamie Rich's and Mike Allred's tales is there to be seen, they are different and each brings different things, but in essence they have a tone and playful inventiveness that makes two different series, with different ideas and creative teams feel entirely part of a greater whole and that's why I'm very comfortable bundling these all together.

The Madman comics play with much deeper story ideas, both in terms of theme as mentioned above, but also and execution.  IT Girl to be fair does that as well, but not to the same extent. There are ways Mike Allred delivers his ideas that are so creative and new, they feel invigorating and build on solid story ideas to elevate them to comics like I've never read before.


Copyright - Mike and Laura Allred

The image above is a perfect example of how artistically innovative the delivery of the story is. It  shows all 20(ish) pages of issue 9 of Madman Atomic Comics stitched together to reveal how the comic consisted of a single panel with the characters and action moved through it, time as ever in western comics moving left to right, and downwards. I remember when a lot of reviewers getting all giddy over Matt Fractions and David Aja's Hawkeye series in 2012, with its innovative page designs and storytelling choices. Taking nothing away from those apparently fine comics, but 9 times out of 10 Mike Allred had got there first, or as near as damn it. Likely he did it better too!

There are lots of others, less visually obvious similar ideas. While the storytelling does so much Allred doesn't allow this to take away from exploring interesting ideas, no sacrifice is made. In issue 9 while there might be a single piece of action shown across 20(ish) unified pages making a single panel, while the action is unfolding with such pzazz, Madman is reflecting on identity and the sense of self. This is brilliant stuff.

"So okay fanboy, if it's so good why do you have so little of it"

I hear you cry, or my imagined version of you, you might be far too polite to do something like that. Anyway it's a fair question. And the reason is simple. There's too many damned good comics out there. My top 100 already includes 137 series, runs, graphic novels, or even single comics. Yes that's right since starting this I've already had to squeeze in another 4 into my already fit to burst 'Top 100'. And that's before you consider the great and classic comics I've not read that which I think might make it, the brilliant comics I've never heard of, my knowledge of Manga for example is woeful and who knows what great stuff there is in other cultures I'm simply oblivious too. The countless more runs that I really like but didn't make the cut.

There's just too many damned good comics...

...though that shouldn't be a surprise, have you seen all the films that you think would be good, have you read all the books. Of course not, we have to cherry pick as we go along. I might give the impression from this list that once I hook into a series, or run, I go all in. Well that's not really true. Once I hook onto a series I do try to track down all the relevant materials, but some of the series here have taken me a long time to get a complete 'set' of. Even when I get that set they need to get to the top of the all too long 'To Read' list and that can take, gulp 4 years (a series much later down the road is still victim of this and I've read maybe 20% of the issues I now own of that long running series, no names).

So when I stumbled across Madman... well actually more hunted it down as I was so impressed when I discovered Mike Allred on X-Statix I got the 2007 series as a joblot. Since then I've not come across the other series in a format, or at a price I'm happy with. There are now the Library Editions I mention above (and will link too below) but I'm not a big fan of large hardcover omnibus, find them uncomfortable to read on the couch and slouchin' on the couch is where most of my reading is done, so I've not yet given in to temptation and picked these up, though I have looked long and hard. I've not seen a set of previous series at a good price in the aftermarket either, but keep an eye out. I've never seen the series in those all important Humble Bundles - a great way to create a massive collection digitally for bobbins.

All that even more self absorbed twaddle is said for a reason though. The shortfall I have in my Madman collection does leave me to speculate where this entry would position if and when I have the lot. Would reading more push it up the list as I learn more and get more engaged with the characters? Might it drop as the quality in early material isn't as good, or at least doesn't appeal to me as much? Clearly I don't know at this point.


Copyright - Mike and Laura Allred

What I do know is it doesn't matter. Just as I don't worry about having all of the comics featuring a specific superhero - well any more! I don't worry about not having all the Madman comics. Sure I'd love to have more and don't doubt at some point I'll get more. Here however just as I'm happy to have certain runs of ongoing house characters series I can happily consider these in the same way. It might not be the whole story but what story I have feels satisfyingly self contained, if open ended.

I said the problem with trying to own everything is there are so many, SO MANY bloody amazing comics out there you just have to accept you can't have them all. That is defo the case on both counts (amazing comics and don't stress having them all that is) with Madman. In life sometimes you just gotta be happy with what you do have and again with Madman I very much am.

Where to find it

All the Allredverse stories are readily available in what will be 6 chunky but lovely looking hardback Library Editions. If like me you don't fancy reading those physically they are all available digitally - or will be when the 6th volume is out in July. There is much more than just the Madman comics, but the bits I've read or have lined up all look fantastic so well worth it. Or take a punt like me and hang out for these to be released in paperback (it worked out with The Goon so fingers crossed!)

The aftermarket - well don't bother so I don't want to bid against you if we spot these at a decent price! Of course go for it. I've never stumbled across them but they are out there.

The IT Girl and the Atomics series is easy to get in two neat little trades again available digitally from the normal sources. Be aware these are included in the Library editions though.

Learn more

Clearly no one has created a Obligatory Wikipedia page for the Madman comics I've read, even in my self-obsessed world I don't expect that. So this one is the entry for Madman generally. The issues I discuss are included within this one.

IT Girl doesn't get her own wiki page for some reason so you'll have to settle for a Comics Vine instead.
As I've only got a chunk of these comics not much specifically about the stories I'm talking about, but a decent amount about Madman more generally.

I was surprised to see CBR actually had a decent summary write up celebrating his 25th anniversary a few years ago.

Plenty of videos, with lots of interviews with Mike Allred on Youtube, just do a search. I've picked Near Mint Condition's review of the first collection but you can find coverage of most of them to be honest.

For the series I have Good Reads has some interesting reflections both positive and negative.

Multiversity has a nice review of the IT Girl! And the Atomics series.

What is all this?

Conscious that this is becoming a long thread and if you're wondering what the heck you've just read and can't be arsed (quite sensibly) to search back to find out I'll link to my opening posts that try to explain all this.

What this all came from

And of course a nerd won't do a list like this without setting 'Rules' / guidelines

Some thoughts on what will not be on the list.
#24
Megazine / Re: Meg 466: Shoot ’em up
20 March, 2024, 09:04:45 PM
Hmmm frustrating Meg this one.

Dredd is actually a real up trick in the story which has been muh up to know, Anthony Williams art aside. Vega coming back really lifted things but ultimately this was just another big monster hard to kill story which is a shame - though the way they 'killed' it was fun.

DeMarco took a dip for me, but only cos I was being dumb I assume and couldn't for the life of me work out how DeMarco got to the name K.R. Babel??? That aside good episode... but how...

Black Museum was fine

I've loved Kot's Devlin Waugh but there was something really off with the pacing this time, basically all that dialogue killed the action and it didn't work for me but LOVE that last panel!

Harrower was a weak episode as it did that annoying trick of setting up what was meant to be a tough situation which the Judges get out of by just punching and shooting folks when the plot needs it. Still the end had potential.

The Paul Neary piece was good. I've not read the Marvel UK chapter yet but looking forward to it and reprint I've read (I remember enjoying Hookjaw - need to re-read it before defending it after Indigo Primes rage though!). So yeah nothing top draw for me this month alas.
#25
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 18 March, 2024, 12:13:10 PMLike you, I think the art is wonderful. And there's a lot of interesting 'stuff' in there. But I imagine I'd struggle with it now, much for the same reasons you did. And as for "Comics shouldn't feel like homework"... Yeah. I have a set of League collections I've not read through yet (bar the first two). And I do wonder if they'll be staying on the shelf once I've done so, for much the same reasons.

I didn't enjoy LoEG as much as I expected when I gave it a try, but didn't go on about it here as I felt From Hell is seen as the more 'significent' work.

I will add I really enjoyed Moore and O'Neill's shorts in Cinema Purgatorio just to try to redress the balance for this more recent works ... I mean its not as if From Hell or LoEG are in anyway recent but more recent than the stuff that does get on the list!
#26
Wayhey doing it in two chunks worked a treat (or just doing it later DAMN the tester in me wishes I'd tried again in one go again before doing that!)
#27
WAYHEY!!! That worked!

#28
Possibly Part 1... possibly not...



Not on the list - From Hell

I think it's becoming an increasingly held view that good as Watchmen is, Alan Moore's best work is


Copyright - Them what created it

For me neither is, but that's for much later in this thread, I think I just look for different things from Moore's work than many of his fans. Very often when I wrote these 'Not on the list' entries I do have some fondness for the comics I'm discussing. To be honest however highly it's regarded in the case of From Hell I actually don't really like it that much and the main reason can be summed up as:

Comics shouldn't feel like homework.

Okay, okay that's a draft simplification of why I don't get on with it, but to be frank it could be boiled down to that. So why do I feel reading From Hell felt like homework. Well in part I think it comes from its reputation, the high regard with which it's held. So when I approached it I did so with anticipation and really expecting to enjoy it, despite the subject matter, to which I will return in a bit. All I got from it was a sense of appreciation for what it was doing, its ambition, elements of the craft on display, but very little actual enjoyment.

Now it's fair to say that I really can't hold how well a comic is received by others against that comic, but I can't deny that I felt really disappointed as I read it that I just couldn't get on with it. It was as if I was failing as a comics fan. I had that niggling doubt in my ability as a reader. Why couldn't I find any joy in this tale that so many rave about? So doubt crept in and I almost resented the process of reading it, having to drag my way through it, in a vain hope that something would eventually click and I'd realise what a silly billy I was for not enjoying it. I got through it almost purely out of a stubborn determination to not be beaten by it, or at least be able to say I'd read it, to make sure I had a valid opinion about this significant comic. There was a sense this is the sort of work that I should like and should read, so I did... boy oh boy I found it such a drag.

Now all of that is on me, none of that has anything to do with the comic, or the comic's problem. That's me and my daft decision making and self doubt. I've read enough comics and have enough comics still to read to know better than that. If I'm not enjoying something, if something is too much of a challenge I should have enough faith in myself as a reader to put it aside and move on, no hard feelings. But From Hell I just couldn't, I felt an obligation to get through it, to at least have read it 'cos it's the type of comic you should have read.

That's why I say reading it felt like homework, it's that sense of obligation, not pleasure that got me through it... at least in school me and over half the class had the sense to get the 'Brodie's Notes' when we had to read Great Expectations over the Christmas Holidays one year - I know, I know I'm not a Dickens fan either...

Anyway, so enough of my experience of reading this, and my failings in doing that, let's see what it is about, you know, the actual comic that I didn't enjoy. Well there's a few things.
First and foremost I really don't understand the fetishism that surrounds the Whitechapel Murders. I find it a sad and baffling obsession deep rooted across society to fascinate on these mysterious and horrific murders. People seem obsessed with 'who done it' and spend so little time reflecting on the victims of this brutal killer and the society that allowed these events to happen. So while I don't enjoy the subject at all, it bores me rigid in fact, when it should be terrifying me. I do respect that Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell spent more time with the victims and exploring their lives, more than most other works on the subject I'm aware of.

This doesn't give the subject a pass however. So elevated are these hideous crimes in the minds of so many they escalate into these vast conspiracy theories of high society covering its crimes. Of those that have abused their privilege to get away with horrendous crimes against the most vulnerable in society. Endlessly elaborate theories, weaving all sorts of ideas into things, ideas long since impossible to prove, continue to spin around events that we will never understand. The enigma that is 'Jack the Ripper' is therefore sustained and given status far above what it should. That is a frightening being capable of the most horrifyingly brute acts. We really need to move on from them and stop giving it more prominence than they deserve.

I have no idea who the killer was and accepting the victims will get no answer or justice, have no concern. Let's move on shall we.

This story however makes matters worse by draping the brutality in a world of magic and wonder. Laying more and more on the crimes about geomancy or whatever it was. The conspiracy theories are given even more status by wrapping them in this stuff. Status I see no reason to entertain.

So from the off the premise leaves me cold and a little detached. I then got a little more put off by the elevation of the things this story focuses on. Add to that much like I've said about Watchmen I find it a little soulless, in fact much more so than Watchmen. Watchmen at least has a technical, craft reason to allow that to be a thing. From Hell I just found a little empty of things to care about. Which when you think about the subject is quite something. I find so many of the characters unengaging and dry. Now this may be fuelled by my disinterest in the subject, but regardless it's there.

I found whole sections indulgent. The tour of mystical sites of London Gull takes Netley on, so lauded by many, I found dull and ponderous. I got none of the sense of majesty and awe others seem to and it just bounces off me as I had to push through. There were other chunks that had a similar lack of impact on me. 

You know what at times this story bored me. Don't like saying it, but struggle to deny it.

All of the above added to the sense that reading this felt like homework. I'll openly admit that part of that feeling is down to me and my issues. I really do think part of it is down to what the tale gives me, or more to the point doesn't give me. If story is so important to me, as detailed in my previous post about Watchmen, From Hell just doesn't give me a story I'm interested in, or characters to pull me along into what story there is. The story there is also feels pulled paper thin across the many, many papers this covers and for me that story is stretched beyond the point of breaking and so I don't like it very much at all...

... damn that didn't go well did it! Okay let's end on three positives after all that shall we.

1. Having said all that, I bet I give this another go in years to come for all the reasons I laid out at the start of this. As things catch up with me and I decide I really should like From Hell and try again.

2. I LOVE the art. Eddie Campbell is a rare talent, and I love his art, as you'll see if you aren't so disgusted with what I've said here and carry on reading my list. He's absolutely perfect for this tale - which given what I've said doesn't seem like a compliment - but is genuinely meant to be. His dark, slashed inks, his perfect storytelling make this comic work about as well as it possibly can.

3. Much smarter and lovelier folks than me adore this story. To demonstrate this I've got two folks you might know, both smarter and lovelier than me discussing it on Mega City Book Club so you really can ignore this guff I've typed and read this as most people think it's brilliant and so they should, the craft is on display.

If you do read it and don't like it however, come find me and we'll slip off to the dark corner of a grim and lifeless pub so we can talk about it behind folks backs!

#29
Quote from: Fortnight on 18 March, 2024, 08:33:46 AMHad a quick skim through the previous posts in the thread and, content wise the only thing you've never used before, as far as I can see, is bullet points. Can't see why that would throw a wobbly, unless there's also some non-ascii or control character in there somewhere.

The preview doesn't catch every quirk, I've noticed. My very first new thread I had to split into 5 posts because I hit the max character limit. Yet the preview showed all of it on one post.

Maybe it's just a timing thing and it'll work later.

Actually that's a good point - I did edit the numbering back in as they don't carry through. I'll try to find some time later to edit them out of the original Doc.

Other than that I can try to copy to a plain text Word doc and paste from there to see if there's anything in the background that's not cool.

As you say though might be a timing thing. We'll see. Fingers crossed and all that.
#30
Yeah 'Preview' worked fine. I always drop them in and do a final read through to catch as many errors last minute as possible. It was only when I clicked 'Post' (or 'Save' when I tried to modify) that I had an issue.

Weird?!?