Fred Slota

2023 Database cloud saved.

I don't recall seeing it throw any error messages. Cloud saving shortly... keep an eye on to the clouds

File Tools | Optimize... Optimizes. Exit ComicBase... Optimizes. Open and Exit ComicBase... Optimizes. Nope. Didn't stop.

Most issues have no cover dates. Several issues have coverdates in 1997, one has a date of 2012. The title claims to be Years Printed in 2012-Present. I assume the 1997s are wrong, and the Years Printed is 2012, yes?

Except I don't want never. I do want it to be optimized when needed. My setting is "> 10%". However, it is optimizing with every close. I closed it this morning; it optimized first. I opened and immediately closed it when I started this post; it optimized. I opened it just now to check the setting and then closed it; it's optimizing as I type. The way I see it, either the optimization isn't removing the unused space, or the setting isn't being recognized, or the test for % unused isn't working correctly.

My database keeps being optimized when I close ComicBase, even if I made no changes. Should this be happening?

Found 0 ' characters in Notes... Good job. Cleanup in Aisle Storylines... found 102 ' characters

I.[Title] LIKE "The %" Clean in Comicbooks, Magazines and Newspapers (Italian allowed), but found in Books The Addams Family, an Evilution The Comic Book Heroes also A Once Crowded Sky

(I.[Title] LIKE "%:%") AND NOT(I.[Title] LIKE "%: %") The first item I found in ComicBooks is the title "11:59", which shows a partial explanation why this might not get noticed. The font used for displaying the Title at the top of the screen has a whitespace kerning after the colon that makes it look like there is a space after the colon. If you go to edit the title, you can see that there is no space. Captain Britain and MI:13 - The cover doesn't show the colon, wondering if it should be there Titles where the colon probably is a subtitle and should have a following space I Cavalieri dello Zodiaco-Episide G:Assassin Fate/Grand Order-Mortalis:stella Justice Leagues:Justice League of Arkham The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen:Nemo Trilogy Slipcase Nemi:Monstre Vikki Belle:The Palace of a Thousand Pleasures

Triple period vs. Ellipses Books Concrete Portfolio (Paul Chadwick's...) These are the Voyages... Comic Books Dumbo (Walt Disney's...)

Comics, K-Z Kia Asamiya's Dojinshi Sketchbook Michael Neno's Dream Mike Zeck's Classic Marvel Stories Artist's Edition Mort Drucker's MAD Show-Stoppers Nicholson's Small Press Tirade and Other Works: 1983-1989 Paul Terry's Comics R. Crumb's Carload O'Comics Ronald Searle's America Sam Glanzman's USS Stevens: The Collected Stories Schulz's Youth Shade's Cover Girls Shade's Goodtime Girls Shade's Superhero Sexcapades Virgil Finlay's Illustrations for Weird Tales Many "Walt Disney's" titles (as opposed to "Disney's") Walt Kelly's Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Will Eisner's 3-D Classics: Spirit Will Eisner's Quarterly Will Eisner's The Spirit Woron's Worlds

I suggest that CB add a step to the process by which they generate weekly content updates, where they run a few screening tests on new titles, in an effort to prevent adding malformed titles. Test for initial "A", "An", "The", etc. Test for initial creator possessives, "Stan Lee's" Test for proper/improper directional apostrophes, quotes, etc. Test for proper/improper dashes Test for proper/improper spacing around punctuation

Thought I'd do a search for possible initial possessive titles that might need retitling. My initial search gave way fewer results than I expected, and I realized that CB mostly uses ’ and not the ' directly typable from my keyboard. Search for I.[Title] LIKE "%'%" returns: 11 results in Books 502 results in Comic Books 0 results in Magazines 0 Results in Newspapers A couple of finds searching for (I.[Title] LIKE "%’s%") and not(I.[Title] LIKE "%(%’s%)%") (typed by hand, probably has the wrong ', don't copy-and-paste) Comicbooks (searched through the J's...) Akira Toriama's Manga Theater Alberto Breccia's Dracula Andy Warner's Oddball Histories: Pests and Pets Anna Malle's Dirty Deeds Bill Stern's Sports Book Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders (Magazine Enterprises) 3 assorted that start with Bru-Hed's Captain Billy's Whiz Bang (Fawcett) Clive Barker's Nightbreed Archive Ed Wheelan's Joke Book Frank Brunner's Carnal Delights Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism Frank Miller's Sin City: The Making of the Movie George Pal's Puppetoons Gris Grimly's Tales from the Brother's Grimm H.P. Lovecraft's Beauty and the Beast H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror Ippongi Bang's Canvas Diary Jack Kirby's Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth Jack Kirby's Marvel Heroes and Monsters James Kochalka's Sketchbook Diaries James Lloyd's Other Stuff Jim Starlin's Dreadstar Omnibus Joe Matt's "Jam" Sketchbook: Feb. 1995to Ma 1998 John Buscema's Marvel Heroes John Byrne's Marvel Classics Artifacts Edition Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu

Thanks for that. Given the graphical choices on the E-mail, I hadn't noticed that line as a link.

My at minimum wasn't that the note, as a whole, should go in Item Title; just the cover misspelled title. In the example given, for that issue, Item Title would have "Marvel Calender" Isn't the point of "Item Title" to help direct the user into finding the correct title when the title on the cover isn't the official title?

At minimum, should notes about cover misspellings have the appropriate information carried into the new field for alternate title names (apologies I forget the field name)? Database purist that I am, assuming that info is carried into the new field, I would recommend that the note be removed from Notes...

I just started getting them the other day, and given the volume of my postings, I was suspicious that I didn't remember seeing them before. So, to be clear, there is no "Mark as Solution" button available, and I should ignore e-mails referring to them?

I'm getting more e-mails asking me to validate the solution posts on more threads. Would love to comply. How?

Might be an interesting exercise for HC to do a check for dupe UPCs in modern times.

I think the series ended with 6?

Searched for Title LIKE "%X-Men%House%"... Title on top has the corrected capitalization, Title in the grid has the wrong capitalization.

Which question was that answering, as "2023" were possible options for both?

Follow-up question - What is the proper way to enter the Years for a miniseries that started in 2023, will end in 2023, but not all issues are out? "2023"? "2023-Present"? "Present"?

Submitting some corrections. Question - What is the proper way to enter the Years for Iron Man (7th Series), which started in 2023 and is ongoing? "Present"? "2023-Present"?

Finally got around to changing this manually. The title now shows with fully-capitalized Roman Numbers in the Titles list, and as the Title on the screen when I am looking at Issues of that Title. Noticed someone had left a note to Comicbase about the capitalization in the Notes field of one of the issues. Decided to search the database for any others, so I could clean them out and submit the cleaned issues. Search only found 1 instance, so that's good. However, I noticed that in the search results grid, the wrong capitalization is still showing in the Title field of the grid. Would a list rebuild correct this?