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Did I somehow fall off the list? I haven't seen it in over a week.
Quack, Don

Posted by AC:
BTW could one of you remind me where I see the planned contets of the coming
issues?? :-) I receive 4 different issues every month. - Did they publish a
christmas parade this time? I haven't seen anything about it...
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I post previews for upcoming Gemstone comics every month. Just look at the
various month's lists by author and when you see my group of posts, I'll have a
title like "March 2005 Gemstone Comic Book Previews" or something like that.
Below is the latest one:

http://stp.ling.uu.se/pipermail/dcml/2004-December/028566.html

Don posted:
Did I somehow fall off the list? I haven't seen it in over a week.

Quack, Don
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First rule about the list is that you don't talk about the list. ;) There,
I've contributed a lame Fight Club (a movie I haven't seen by the way) reference
like everyone else of my age range. :p

Derek Smith

>As you will see from their web page gemstonepub.com/disney they published
an Xmas parade with 3 different cover versions. However they don't send
outside the U.S. but you can get a back copy from amazon.com.

Nope, that's not completely correct. The first cover shown is - as
indicated - the one from 2003's christmas parade. CP #2 from 2004 had two
different cover versions. One fitting to the classic style of No. 1, the
other one being a more modern version with an artwork by Egmont.

Jano

>
> There's a new Rosa-story due out in the next 3 issues of the
> scandinavian
> weeklies.

I check I understod this right. You mean that there are new story in Finlands, Norways and Swedish Disney magazines. I really, really hope I was right.

marire

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I'm using CDisplay to view comics.. it can open .txt and .nfo file formats
which can contain info about the comic.

Does any body know how to make a .nfo file and put comics info in it?

I've created an nfo file that is working. but the CDisplay don't display it

Here is the .nfo file's content

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<MsInfo>

<Metadata>

<Version>7.0</Version>

<CreationUTC>01/13/05 13:20:27</CreationUTC>

</Metadata>

<Category name="Comic Summary">

<Data>

<Item><![CDATA[Comic]]></Item>

<Value><![CDATA[Adham]]></Value>

</Data>

</Category>

</MsInfo>

But this in a text file and change its extension from .txt to .nfo. and
it'll be working perfectly. try it in the CDisplay, it wont respond.

Any ideas?

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I too have been confused by Scoop's techniques at posting information on
the Disney titles. They used to conveniently put out two articles (one
for MM and DD, another for WDC&S and US) the week before they were
shipping to stores, but now the previews/ads are placed in random order.
It'd be nice if they'd stick to a routine.

-Thad K.

Hi Derek,

> This is a sort of observation/complaint/question post. I'm sure
> probably a few of you check out Scoop, Gemstone's online comics
> newsletter. Query: Why can't they ever get the release dates right
> for Gemstone Disney comics?
[examples snipped]

"They" is often me, as I write many of the Disney comics Scoop articles.
From the time I started contributing (on a freelance basis last summer) up until just a week ago, I announced release dates based on the following two assumptions:
1) That a Gemstone Disney comic typically arrives in comic shops one week after our distribution center ships it out
2) That the shipping schedule I had on hand was accurate

But starting about one and a half months ago, the following two factors arose without my knowledge:
1) Gemstone Disney comics often began to take two weeks or even three weeks -- rather than one week -- to make it to shops after being shipped out. (For better or worse, this is an incident we can't predict from where we stand in the editorial office.)
2) My shipping schedule was superseded by an updated schedule, and some shipping dates themselves were changed

Together, these two factors meant that the dates I was announcing for individual comics' arrival in shops have lately been incorrect. Sadly, it took me longer than I would have liked to catch onto the problem, because at first we believed the aberrations to be the fault of deliveries having slowed up around holiday time.
Now that I'm on top of the matter, you won't see us announcing release dates at all in Scoop, because they're too hard to predict. Starting with US 338, we'll only be announcing each book's shipping date, and you can assume that you'll usually see the comic in shop within two weeks of that date. Whether it's actually only one week (or occasionally, three) will vary with the book.

> But then...
>
> http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=7408&si=121
>
> US 338 being released on January 19th.

No, look closer and you'll see that we're announcing that it's SHIPPING January 19th, not being RELEASED on that date.

> I can't wait for Friday's article previewing WDC saying it'll be
> released next week (January 26th).

We can't say for sure. It's shipping January 19th, like US 338.

> I just don't see how they can be so consistently wrong about
> release dates from their own company.

We weren't CONSISTENTLY wrong until rather recently. I'm on top of the matter and you shouldn't see it again.

Best, David