1 – “Do recent comics have decent storylines?” I can’t really speak to the overall quality of recent storylines since for all intents and purposes I haven’t been reading comics for about 5 years and I’m just now starting to catch up as Marvel releases these trades digitally (and so far only on the Nook). So I don’t think I’m qualified to make any sort of generic comment on Marvel comics specifically or all comics generally.

That said, the stuff I have been able to read that has been published in the last few years appears to have about the same mix of good/bad that there seems to always have been. A good example of that would be the Planet Hulk and World War Hulk trades that were available when the Nook Tablet launched. I thought Planet Hulk was good though perhaps not excellent. Plotting was fairly solid, characterization was decent, dialog was interesting, but then they fridged Hulk’s wife starting World War Hulk and everything went downhill in an apparent attempt to make sure anyone who cared about any characters in the Marvel U would have a reason to read it. It sucked. The recent Spider-Man trades I’ve gotten through so far have been equally diverse in quality.

2 – “Is the history of the X-Men a convoluted mess?” Yes, the X-Men are messed up. Is that news? ]]> http://www.cavort.org/2011/12/23/new-marvel-trades-on-nook-12232011/comment-page-1/#comment-2086 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CavortComments/~3/-gT_DydTgrE/ Don Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:24:52 +0000 http://www.cavort.org/?p=1091#comment-2085 What's your take on the quality of the latest storylines? I found an interesting article in Wired (http://www.wired.com/magazine/tag/uncanny-x-men/) covering the X-Men. The "Naught '00s" review ended with "Then his twin brother, Xorn, showed up. Then we stopped reading comics." What’s your take on the quality of the latest storylines? I found an interesting article in Wired (http://www.wired.com/magazine/tag/uncanny-x-men/) covering the X-Men. The “Naught ’00s” review ended with “Then his twin brother, Xorn, showed up. Then we stopped reading comics.” ]]> http://www.cavort.org/2011/12/23/new-marvel-trades-on-nook-12232011/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CavortComments/~3/SCN9TvwJrQo/ Cavorter Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:26:01 +0000 http://www.cavort.org/?p=1078#comment-1985 I left out a bit: The environment variable was already created before starting up InstallShield and it still won't resolve as anything useful unless I go through the process outlined. I might make an edit in the post to reflect that... I left out a bit: The environment variable was already created before starting up InstallShield and it still won’t resolve as anything useful unless I go through the process outlined. I might make an edit in the post to reflect that… ]]> http://www.cavort.org/2011/11/15/environment-and-path-variables-in-installshield/comment-page-1/#comment-1985 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CavortComments/~3/u1HSYIGgAFw/ colby Tue, 15 Nov 2011 21:14:24 +0000 http://www.cavort.org/?p=1078#comment-1984 "I had originally just gone straight to the Path Variables section of the IDE and created a new entry and changed the type to “Environment”..." 1. Do that (above). 2. Save the changes, close and restart IS. The problem occurs if you create a new environment variable while you have the IDE open because creating the new env var does not "broadcast" the change to currently running processes (such as isdev.exe). For the IDE to "see" the new env var you have to stop and restart the process. I think most applications work this way too (for example, that's why you can't set an env var during an MSI install and reference the new env var before the install has completed - b/c the change isn't "broadcast" to the already running msiexec.exe process). “I had originally just gone straight to the Path Variables section of the IDE and created a new entry and changed the type to “Environment”…”

1. Do that (above).
2. Save the changes, close and restart IS.

The problem occurs if you create a new environment variable while you have the IDE open because creating the new env var does not “broadcast” the change to currently running processes (such as isdev.exe). For the IDE to “see” the new env var you have to stop and restart the process. I think most applications work this way too (for example, that’s why you can’t set an env var during an MSI install and reference the new env var before the install has completed – b/c the change isn’t “broadcast” to the already running msiexec.exe process).