Larry Robertson Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 Is this just a ME problem or is anyone else really put off that when you bring up a series like Uncanny X-Men the default image that comes in is NOT the beautiful Terry Austin cover of issue 142 but rather the NOT SO beautiful 1997 minus 1 cover image? I'm really not sure how this could be fixed because obviously it's defaulting to the lowest issue number and -1 technically comes before 142 (or 1). Perhaps some option to select which issue's cover to use as the default series image? It just seems so wrong for this gimmicky '90s relic to represent a series like this that would be better served with a classic John Byrne/Terry Austin one for example? So if not a check box to over ride a numerically chosen one then maybe we designate Minus Ones in some other way so they stop cutting the line like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Slota Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 If it's going to be an automatic process, probably want to make sure it avoids #0 and #0.5 as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Robertson Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 Agreed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven L. Dasinger Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 8 hours ago, Larry Robertson said: it's defaulting to the lowest issue number Just to clarify this statement a little bit, It defaults to the lowest number in a TEXT sort order. If it was a NUMERIC sort order and you had covers for issues 2 - 20, the cover displayed would be 2. But with the TEXT sort order in CB, if you had covers for Issues 2 - 20, the cover displayed would be 10 (i.e 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 17. 18, 19, 2, 20 (note position of #2)) Even stranger, if you had a set of covers for 2-9, 20-100 (skipping all the other issues that have a 1 at the beginning), the displayed cover would be 100. This also means, if you had -2 and 1 with covers, 1 would be the displayed cover and not -2. This makes no difference to your Feature suggestion. Just explaining what CB is really doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Robertson Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Robertson Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 I would be happy with either of these scenarios: Pete/CB Editors CHOOSE an appropriate cover image for each series (this would also make the Atomic Avenue pages look nicer) or They bake in an over-ride option of the auto select as it is now and allow the user to choose on his local DB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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