I had previously plugged ComicBookMovie.com's fansites
here.
It seemed like an ideal place for me to post historical articles and other goodies on a variety of subjects in a fannish way, including
The Green Hornet, SuperHeroines, and
Golden Age Heroes.
But, I'm afraid I have to change my mind.
I had posted several articles adapted from my blog entries for
Green Hornet: Year One, Blue Bolt, Nature Boy, Air Man & RocketMan, and
Friday Foster.
Audience response had been good, with a number of positive comments and "thumbs up"!
With great enthusiasm, I was preparing a number of pieces, going above the scope of what I had originally planned to do!
I logged on and was about to post the first of my
Fantastic Femmes entries (
Zoe Saldana!) on the
Heroines fansite I created, when I noticed that my previous articles had...disappeared!
The site has some technical glitches, particularly in the
"Articles" section. (I posted articles as "Features" because of their historical content, but they kept reclassifying as "News".) So I thought it was just a glitch that could be corrected, and the stories reloaded.
Not quite.
When I emailed the webmaster, I was told that the articles had been
deleted...with no explanation or notification.
If I hadn't checked, I wouldn't have realized that they were gone!
I've communicated via e-mail with Jim Littler, who runs the site.
He sounds like a cool guy, doing his best under extremely trying circumstances, so this is in no way a put-down of him.
The problem, according to Jim, was that one of several new website editors deleted the articles without bothering to contact me with any questions he may have had.
Apparently, ComicBookMovies.com has no in-house log-on/tracking procedures for changes, nor any way to recover deleted material.
(Jim asked the editors and none of them has acknowledged doing the deletions.)
Sadly, I've decided that, until such matters can be corrected, I'll just post picture galleries into the three sites I have up, and won't be adding any more sites (I had planned several more for specific characters.)
While I will try to include info in the pic galleries, I could have done a lot more with the features, but I can't justify the time involved if things will just be deleted.
However, if
you're comfortable with working within those parameters, feel free to join the community and participate.
It
is fun, and a
very responsive audience is there!
Tomorrow: back to business as usual with
Design of the Week!
comics and collections including Black Terror
, Death Defying 'Devil
, Masquerade
, and Project SuperPowers Volume 2
!
