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Navigation Tip: Instead of right clicking the strip title and opening in a new tab|window as we use to do, right click on the speech balloon and open in a new tab|window. This way you wonât have to reload your comic page when you want to go to another comic.
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I find the ârepliesâ disconcerting. Why donât they just appear without having to click a button? Itâs too easy to miss them this wayâŚ.
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As do I ! Â Despite what Neil disagrees about my saying that this place needs two set ups, I maintain that it DOES !
One that the portables can go to that provides minimal data usage and one that home units, that have more latitude with the bits and Bytes, where the lost features can sing and dance and play ! (Smiley image)
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Good morning Vista Bill and Honeymoon supporters, in her battle of cop supremacy with monkey face boy !
Ray Toler said: This new site is a nightmare! I heartily agree! What a mess! No place to delete a comment when you think better of what you said, no straight chronological flow of the comments (I know thatâs what bloggers seem to like, responses take you down a rabbit trail) but I havenât the time for such nonsense.
What a shame. Guess you wonât be hearing from me much any more, if at all. Someone should have educated the programmers: âIf it ainât broke, donât fix it.â
Looking for somewhere else to read, now. (Hey, what happened to 9 Chickweed Lane??)
Go to the comics A-Z list, the circle at the bottom marked âU-#â. Open that and you get The U to # strips. Scroll down through the letters until you get to the # ones and the last one is Nine Chickweed.
To add a comic to your My comic list go to the upper left of the comic where you will see a circle with a plus + symbol. Click that and it will become a minus - symbol. That means your comic has been added to your list. I had to do that for every thing I read and even added a few. When I click My Comics I get a page with all my stuff in what appears to be reverse order of having added them in as I went down through the alphabet.
I right click and open each one in a new tab as I do not see provision for them being in a horizontal row as the non Pro ones had been. Separate tabbing eliminates the need for constant back clicking to get back to the list. Still cumbersome but slightly okay. Hopefully things will get better in time ?
Thanks, GweedâŚI did happen to find it a moment later. But I also didnât notice that it had changed my handle. Got THAT one figured out pretty quick. Buy I doubt very much that they can do anything, short of reverting to the old format, to rescue this. It now takes far too many steps just to get to where you can read the comments.
Sorry, fellows, Iâm outta here. I donât need this frustration at this point in my life. Maybe Iâll check in in about a month or so and see if thereâs any improvement.
View the page source. Right click on the page and select View page source or from your browserâs menu. The exact term used varies depending on the browser.
Search for item-comic-image. In windows, Ctrl-F will open the browserâs search function. There is only one instance of that tag and the value of src will be a hyperlinked URL. That is the URL of the dayâs strip. Click on the URL to open it. If by chance the URL is not hyperlinked, copy the URL to the address bar.
The image shown using the URL can be saved to your hard disk or to an image host.
When I went here I can see my avatar at the top right corner but I still need to sign in to post a comment. If I see my avatar that means I am logged in. They seem to have forgotten how to properly use a cookie.
Canât GoComics have a version of the site for mobile devices and another for desktop devices like most other sites do?
And they call this an upgrade? This is an awful upgrade. They should revert this version to beta testing and give us the old setuo. Whoever thought of this should be nominated as addition to Briberyâs collection.
I donât like the âupdatedâ Sammy. I know he was a âSamboâ in original Spirit but they could have kept him Black instead of trying to be âpolitically correctâ.
GoComics offers a threaded view of comments but it is limited to one level deep. It does not allow reply to a reply. The people who did this upgrade seems to be underpaid as their product are lackluster, and I am being polite at that
Youâd think there would be some simple hypertextural algorithm to auto-size picture embeds within the comments, so all weâd need to do would be to paste in the image location. :(
Many stations produced material which was little heard outside of its own broadcast range, so itâs certainly possible. Radio production was relatively inexpensive. There might not even have been a licensing fee associated with the material, as it would have constituted free advertising for the strip.
Still a little skeptical, but itâs fun to think about.
According to wikipedia, Radio station WHAT-AM, mentioned in the above, does indeed exist, and was owned by the publisher of âThe Philadelphia Recordâ from July 1940 through February 1944, pumping out a massive 100 Watt broadcast signal.
At least the people in the building could probably receive it, if the walls werenât excessively thick.
Iâd include their logo, but â yâknow â âSpamâ and all that.
Iâve vivid memories of a lavishly produced âSherlock Holmesâ radio series which aired Sundays on WGBH-FM in â Iâd guess â The mid-70âs, but to this day Iâve been unable to produce any evidence of its existence.
Suppose I could try going through newspaper files at the Boston Public library in search of radio listings from that period â There were such things at the time, near or adjacent to the comics section, actually â but that would require legwork.
Instead of doing replies that make people have to do the extra clicking I will simply copy what I am responding to. If you do the Reply to someoneâs comment hours after it was posted the chance that it will get seen diminishes.
If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web applicationâs log file and/or the web serverâs log file to find out what went wrong.
Thanks to everyone who tried to aim me towards that â70âs-era SHERLOCK HOLMES radio show, even if it still remains elusive.
I remember quite distinctly that the actor playing Dr. Watson announced the end credits over some spirited orchestral music, always ending with, âAnd my friend, _______, played Sherlock Holmes,â or words to that effect.
Canât for the life of me recall the actorâs name, which would be a huge assist in searching. :(
Could the BBC Barry Foster/David Buck SHERLOCK HOLMES from 1978 have been what Iâd heard âŚ?
Possibly.
The end credits music rings a definite bell, though the voice-over doesnât sync up at all. Neither actorâs name elicits a âEureka!â moment from me.
Still, itâs possible the credits might have been re-recorded for broadcast outside of the U.K.
Honeymoon has clearly aced Sammy. If he is at all smart, he will acknowledge her leadership on this, her home turf. She has still-developing latent lunarian powers that could be brought forward if things get roughâŚ.
One feature of the ânewâ format is that if someone doesnât like your opinion about something, you get erased! And you donât know who dropped the dime on you. Appropo!
Ray Toler about 8 years ago
Good morning, everyone. This new site is a nightmare.
Neil Wick about 8 years ago
Honeymoon wins the battle of the kids. Sammy doesnât have anything on her!
Neil Wick about 8 years ago
Everyone: Donât forget to fix your display name. Click your profile picture (beside the magnifying glass in the top right), go to âMy Profileâ and click âEditâ beside your name to change it to what you want. I wrote feedback complaining about them not getting those copied over, but they may be very busy right now.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
The âTwo-Panel Stripâ has become more and more common in recent months.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Does Honeymoon look a little bit younger today?
Must be the company sheâs keeping.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
SâFunny, the new site doesnât seem to freeze up my âputer as much as the old one.
x_Tech about 8 years ago
Tips for the New GoComics:
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Navigation Tip: Instead of right clicking the strip title and opening in a new tab|window as we use to do, right click on the speech balloon and open in a new tab|window. This way you wonât have to reload your comic page when you want to go to another comic.
Â
Screen Name/Avatar: Click on your Avatar (top of the screen to the right of SHOP) and select MY PROFILE and click EDIT. Then you change your display name and/or update your avatar. Note: Your display name will appear in all caps regardless of how you enter it.
Â
Editing a comment: Until you refresh the page pressing Ctrl + Z in the comment box will re-display your comment so you can edit it and then repost it (then you can delete the previous one). Note this does not work when using Reply.
Â
Creating a Blank Line: Type Enter Enter Enter Enter ( stands for non breaking space)
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 8 years ago
Getting a late startâŚ.
Sisyphos about 4 hours ago
I find the ârepliesâ disconcerting. Why donât they just appear without having to click a button? Itâs too easy to miss them this wayâŚ.
Â
As do I ! Â Despite what Neil disagrees about my saying that this place needs two set ups, I maintain that it DOES !
One that the portables can go to that provides minimal data usage and one that home units, that have more latitude with the bits and Bytes, where the lost features can sing and dance and play ! (Smiley image)
Â
Good morning Vista Bill and Honeymoon supporters, in her battle of cop supremacy with monkey face boy !
Dean about 8 years ago
Once I figured out where to click to get signed in and my comics in a strip along the top, I updated my bookmark to that page. [Firefox on a Mac]
If that bookmark still works right later today then I will delete the old bookmark.
Just using a double enter is giving me paragraph breaks without needing the nbsp bit.
blunebottle about 8 years ago
Ray Toler said: This new site is a nightmare! I heartily agree! What a mess! No place to delete a comment when you think better of what you said, no straight chronological flow of the comments (I know thatâs what bloggers seem to like, responses take you down a rabbit trail) but I havenât the time for such nonsense.
What a shame. Guess you wonât be hearing from me much any more, if at all. Someone should have educated the programmers: âIf it ainât broke, donât fix it.â
Looking for somewhere else to read, now. (Hey, what happened to 9 Chickweed Lane??)
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 8 years ago
What happened to Nine ChickweedâŚ
Go to the comics A-Z list, the circle at the bottom marked âU-#â. Open that and you get The U to # strips. Scroll down through the letters until you get to the # ones and the last one is Nine Chickweed.
To add a comic to your My comic list go to the upper left of the comic where you will see a circle with a plus + symbol. Click that and it will become a minus - symbol. That means your comic has been added to your list. I had to do that for every thing I read and even added a few. When I click My Comics I get a page with all my stuff in what appears to be reverse order of having added them in as I went down through the alphabet.
I right click and open each one in a new tab as I do not see provision for them being in a horizontal row as the non Pro ones had been. Separate tabbing eliminates the need for constant back clicking to get back to the list. Still cumbersome but slightly okay. Hopefully things will get better in time ?
blunebottle about 8 years ago
Thanks, GweedâŚI did happen to find it a moment later. But I also didnât notice that it had changed my handle. Got THAT one figured out pretty quick. Buy I doubt very much that they can do anything, short of reverting to the old format, to rescue this. It now takes far too many steps just to get to where you can read the comments.
Sorry, fellows, Iâm outta here. I donât need this frustration at this point in my life. Maybe Iâll check in in about a month or so and see if thereâs any improvement.
Cheers.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Hmm ⌠not sure how to save each dayâs strip to my HD.
Also, the round icons are cute, but they cut off a lot of a square image.
Wonders if gifs will animate in this format, is too lazy to swap out avatars to find out.
SKJAM! Premium Member about 8 years ago
The new layout is going to take a lot of getting used to, but at least the Dick Tracy crew is still chugging along.
crobinson019 about 8 years ago
I like that the comics show up a bit larger as you land on the page, but I agree this new layout will take some getting used to
22ph about 8 years ago
How to save a copy of the strip
View the page source. Right click on the page and select View page source or from your browserâs menu. The exact term used varies depending on the browser.
Search for item-comic-image. In windows, Ctrl-F will open the browserâs search function. There is only one instance of that tag and the value of src will be a hyperlinked URL. That is the URL of the dayâs strip. Click on the URL to open it. If by chance the URL is not hyperlinked, copy the URL to the address bar.
The image shown using the URL can be saved to your hard disk or to an image host.
22ph about 8 years ago
When I went here I can see my avatar at the top right corner but I still need to sign in to post a comment. If I see my avatar that means I am logged in. They seem to have forgotten how to properly use a cookie.
Canât GoComics have a version of the site for mobile devices and another for desktop devices like most other sites do?
And they call this an upgrade? This is an awful upgrade. They should revert this version to beta testing and give us the old setuo. Whoever thought of this should be nominated as addition to Briberyâs collection.
Dwight Harris about 8 years ago
I donât like the âupdatedâ Sammy. I know he was a âSamboâ in original Spirit but they could have kept him Black instead of trying to be âpolitically correctâ.
22ph about 8 years ago
GoComics offers a threaded view of comments but it is limited to one level deep. It does not allow reply to a reply. The people who did this upgrade seems to be underpaid as their product are lackluster, and I am being polite at that
toahero about 8 years ago
If this escalates, Sammy may want to be wearing a grounding wireâŚ
AnyFace about 8 years ago
I wonder if Honeymoonâs question will transition into an origin recap for âThe Spirit.â
Vista Bill Raley and Comet⢠about 8 years ago
Good morning guys!
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I really do not enjoy this new format.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
âThe Spiritâ on The Radio âŚ?!
Canât necessarily vouch for the sources here, but they tell an interesting tale âŚ
http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.com/2012/07/mystery-of-radio-spirit-solved.html
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Youâd think there would be some simple hypertextural algorithm to auto-size picture embeds within the comments, so all weâd need to do would be to paste in the image location. :(
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Which reminds me âŚ
With the advent of this new format, GoComics No Longer Apologizes For Defending Us Against What Theyâd Labelled As âSpam.â
AnyFace about 8 years ago
First: Label something as a nuisance, even if it isnât.
Second: Ban it.
Third: Past a certain point, Never Speak Of It Again.
Orwellian, eh wot?
AnyFace about 8 years ago
As True Here As It Is In Life.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Hereâs a related piece about that early radio version of âThe Spiritâ âŚ
http://www.mwotrc.com/rr2012_12/thatsthespiritpart2.htm
Did it really exist?
Tough to tell, without fully vetting the sources.
Many stations produced material which was little heard outside of its own broadcast range, so itâs certainly possible. Radio production was relatively inexpensive. There might not even have been a licensing fee associated with the material, as it would have constituted free advertising for the strip.
Still a little skeptical, but itâs fun to think about.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
*DâOh~!!
Maybe I shouldâve posted the first part of that article first?
http://www.mwotrc.com/rr2012_10/thatsthespirit.htm
Don Bagert Premium Member about 8 years ago
Note â There are what I think are supposed to be various moon phases on the monitor in the background.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Doing a little additional sleuthing âŚ
According to wikipedia, Radio station WHAT-AM, mentioned in the above, does indeed exist, and was owned by the publisher of âThe Philadelphia Recordâ from July 1940 through February 1944, pumping out a massive 100 Watt broadcast signal.
At least the people in the building could probably receive it, if the walls werenât excessively thick.
Iâd include their logo, but â yâknow â âSpamâ and all that.
It can be found on this wiki page âŚ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHAT_(AM)
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Researching radio shows is a pain.
Case In Point âŚ
Iâve vivid memories of a lavishly produced âSherlock Holmesâ radio series which aired Sundays on WGBH-FM in â Iâd guess â The mid-70âs, but to this day Iâve been unable to produce any evidence of its existence.
Suppose I could try going through newspaper files at the Boston Public library in search of radio listings from that period â There were such things at the time, near or adjacent to the comics section, actually â but that would require legwork.
⌠and Archie Goodwin, I ainât.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 8 years ago
firebrand1 about 1 hour ago
Honeymoon has a communications watch, Sammy has the Spirits phone number.
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That is soooo much better than a Wrist Wizard ! (Laughy image)
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 8 years ago
Instead of doing replies that make people have to do the extra clicking I will simply copy what I am responding to. If you do the Reply to someoneâs comment hours after it was posted the chance that it will get seen diminishes.
Ray Toler about 8 years ago
I was finally able to log in. I kept getting error 500 messages up until now. This new system sucks.
Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray about 8 years ago
I always leave certain strips tabs open, which includes D.T. and so had no trouble getting on.
Dean about 8 years ago
500 Internal Server Error
If you are the administrator of this website, then please read this web applicationâs log file and/or the web serverâs log file to find out what went wrong.
seismic-2 Premium Member about 8 years ago
Wouldnât it have been more nearly reasonable for Sammy to ask âWhat are you?â After all, heâs probably never seen a kid with antennae before.
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Thanks to everyone who tried to aim me towards that â70âs-era SHERLOCK HOLMES radio show, even if it still remains elusive.
I remember quite distinctly that the actor playing Dr. Watson announced the end credits over some spirited orchestral music, always ending with, âAnd my friend, _______, played Sherlock Holmes,â or words to that effect.
Canât for the life of me recall the actorâs name, which would be a huge assist in searching. :(
AnyFace about 8 years ago
Could the BBC Barry Foster/David Buck SHERLOCK HOLMES from 1978 have been what Iâd heard âŚ?
Possibly.
The end credits music rings a definite bell, though the voice-over doesnât sync up at all. Neither actorâs name elicits a âEureka!â moment from me.
Still, itâs possible the credits might have been re-recorded for broadcast outside of the U.K.
Hereâs an episode âŚ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fAdNtJQr8A
Ken in Ohio about 8 years ago
Notice that, although Honeymoon refers to her device as a âwrist wizardâ, she also is actually wearing the retro wrist radio.
CarlTrinkwon about 8 years ago
Wow. A whole new format. TBC
Sisyphos about 8 years ago
Honeymoon has clearly aced Sammy. If he is at all smart, he will acknowledge her leadership on this, her home turf. She has still-developing latent lunarian powers that could be brought forward if things get roughâŚ.
Morrow Cummings about 8 years ago
One feature of the ânewâ format is that if someone doesnât like your opinion about something, you get erased! And you donât know who dropped the dime on you. Appropo!
22ph about 8 years ago
@NEILWICK is that trick to expand all replies ready?