Monthly Archives: January 2005
Update for 1/29/05
Ice storm schmice storm! I managed to get to FLUKE after all and have all kinds of new comics to review when I get back to Ohio. This is just a little note to let you all know that I’m not dead or anything and that new comics should be up here at some point on Tuesday. Now get back to chatting on the forums!
Upate for 1/29/05
Ice storm schmice storm! I managed to get to FLUKE after all and have all kinds of new comics to review when I get back to Ohio. This is just a little note to let you all know that I’m not dead or anything and that new comics should be up here at some point on Tuesday. Now get back to chatting on the forums!
Update for 1/26/05
OK, new comics in the store from Matt Herzfeld and Nick Mercer, I’ll be back soon with many, many new comics!
Update for 1/25/05 and site news
The update for today is the other half of a flip book with Nick Abadzis, Net Result by Paul Peart-Smith. Also, I’m heading out of town tomorrow. I’m heading back home for a couple of days before heading down to Georgia for FLUKE, so there probably aren’t going to be any new reviews until next week, either Monday (if all goes perfectly) or, more likely, Tuesday afternoon. The good news about all this is that when I do get back I’ll have all kinds of new comics for review. I’ll pop in from time to time, as I get internet access (whenever that’ll be), to check up on the forums and post an update, if possible. In the meantime, dig around the site, post on the forums (or e-mail me at whitey@opticalsloth.com) and let me know what improvements you still think are needed. Also, if you want to buy some stuff at the online store and want to get it quickly, if you order before noonish tomorrow I’ll stop at the post office on the way out of town. Or if you’re going to Georgia also just let me know what you want and I can bring it with me. OK, I’ll be back soon with a pile of comics!
Update for 1/25/05 and site news
The update for today is the other half of a flip book with Nick Abadzis, Net Result by Paul Peart-Smith. Also, I’m heading out of town tomorrow. I’m heading back home for a couple of days before heading down to Georgia for FLUKE, so there probably aren’t going to be any new reviews until next week, either Monday (if all goes perfectly) or, more likely, Tuesday afternoon. The good news about all this is that when I do get back I’ll have all kinds of new comics for review. I’ll pop in from time to time, as I get internet access (whenever that’ll be), to check up on the forums and post an update, if possible. In the meantime, dig around the site, post on the forums (or e-mail me at whitey@opticalsloth.com) and let me know what improvements you still think are needed. Also, if you want to buy some stuff at the online store and want to get it quickly, if you order before noonish tomorrow I’ll stop at the post office on the way out of town. Or if you’re going to Georgia also just let me know what you want and I can bring it with me. OK, I’ll be back soon with a pile of comics!
Update for 1/24/05
New review for Rafer Roberts (Plastic Farm #7) and Adam Suerte’s comics are now available in the online store!
Update for 1/25/05
New review for Rafer Roberts (Plastic Farm #7) and Adam Suerte’s comics are now available in the online store!
Update for 1/22/05
No, I didn’t do seven updates today. The seven people listed below this are the reviews I did while the site was “in transit”, so they all didn’t make it here. If you went to the old site every day you probably already saw them, if you didn’t, hey, they’re probably new to you!
Update for 1/21/05
Landscape of Possibilities from Nick Abadzis is the new review for today. Happy weekend, some of these remaining problems should be fixed by Monday. I’ll still try and get an update or two in this weekend though…
Update for 1/20/05
Robert Young has a new issue of The Comics Interpreter out and I think everybody out there should buy it and read it so he keeps going. What, does that spoil the surprise of the review?
Update: OK, I spoke too soon about having all those problems fixed
I can’t seem to get images to upload. The webmaster is having another busy day at work, so I’m hoping this is fixed by tonight at the latest, but I went ahead with the reviews anyway. As of 3:30pm (Eastern time) there are no pictures for the reviews of Dan Moynihan (Catching the Moon) and Trevor Alixopulos (Quagga #5), but that will be fixed ASAP. If you can’t stand the reviews without pictures, you might want to click on those two tomorrow. If you can live without images for now, click on the names and read away!
Problems fixed!
Well, mostly fixed anyway. The haphazard articles page in the main menu has been replaced by the Author Index. Check it out, you can find anybody you want through the first letter of their last name, or you could still use the search option, whcih is also in the main menu. Also, I have 5 new comics available in the store, 2 from Robin Enrico and 3 from Ryan Claytor, so check them out! I think this home page is now going to be easy to update (and keep current), which is great. I’m going to attempt a few updates tomorrow, so I apologize for the slow pace of the update the past few weeks. What can I say, I’m trying to fix stuff. OK, more tomorrow, wander around the site a bit, see what shiny new things you like.
Update for Jason McNamara & Tony Talbert
I just reviewed the last issue (#4) of the Less Than Hero series. Also, as far as all the problems go, the webmaster (not me, the other guy) has hit a rough patch at work, but he’s going as fast as he can, so it might be a couple of days yet before everything is fixed. The (unrelated) good news is that I’m getting word from a bunch of folks that they’re going to send comics for the online store, so the selection there should increase substantially in the next few weeks. Also, I’m getting reports that finding the review is still a major pain, so here’s the easiest way that I know to get there under the current set-up: go to the search bar, type in "Jason McNamara" and click on it. Sorry, this will all be so very much easier soon…
Update: Do you want the good news or the bad news first?
Well, the good news is that all the articles are arranged by last name first instead of first name first… although we still need to mix some things together in this cauldron to make everything list alphabetically. Does that show off my lack of knowledge? I can live with that. The bad news is that the image uploader currently isn’t working for some reason, so my reviews are pretty much dead in the water until that’s fixed. I’m hoping for it to be done later today, or tomorrow at the latest, and when that happens I have a few reviews coming. So: the reviews will soon be listed alphabetically, until then please keep using the search bar to find what you’re looking for. Any questions or complaints, post ’em on the forum and we can all talk about them! Also, if you just desperately want to get to the full list of reviews, click on anyone’s name, then “Reviews” under their name. A bit of a pain right now, but it’ll be fixed!
Dave Kiersh update
Dave Kiersh was the update today, so please scroll down and check out the new update! Sorry that it’s not up here automatically yet, obviously there are still a few bugs to be worked out. Thanks for your patience and we’ll get there soon, I swear. Happy weekend!
Store woes…
Navigating the store can be a little pesky at the moment. Unfortunately, the products are organized by the author’s last name, currently. But as things get added, it may change.
I’ll write a search box for the store segment specifically. In the meantime, use the search link on the main menu to search for items in the store. It makes things MUCH easier. Basically, just select the “Optical Sloth Online Store” check box at the bottom of the list of checkboxes (its on by default) and you’ll be able to find what you’re specifically looking for.
Eventually I’ll get around to writing something so that we can organize everything by the Author’s last name or by the title of the comic. Until then, bear with us while we get everything up and running.