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rmr1967 Posts: 1
1/5/2021
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Has anyone else noticed that depending on the title the Newsstand is Cover A, and Direct is Cover B, or the reverse? It becomes troubling when you're trying in input new comics and you're checking off the first of the two images for the Newsstand issue and then you switch to enter another title and now the first image is for the Direct.
I'm not sure if its just a simple line of code to flip it so all the titles are the same, or if they need to manually change each one. it's just aggravating, when you check off the wrong edition and have to go through the trouble to delete it to correct it.
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collectibleshop Posts: 3088
1/5/2021
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BasementComics wrote:
...the primary cover (A) will be what was more readily at the time.
Here's my thoughts....It shouldn't matter what was more available or which version was the 'main' type back in the 80s/90s. We're not IN the 80s/90s any more, and CPG has only recently begun to catalog and show both versions, so it's not like they were doing that back in the 80s/90s and don't want to change the A/B designation now. It may be a royal pain to flip them now, or it may be a fairly simple code change, that would also change everyone's collection at the same time, I dunno.
But the OP has a point about consistency. To me it's more important for consistency in this case, and that means sticking with one A/B choice to make it easier for people who have both and collect both to keep things straight in their CPG collection. Who cares what was more prevalent when? It's not 'when' now, it's now, and everything for a long time now has a bar code, and it would make it so much easier when adding issues and verifying submissions and submitting the correct pics if Direct Market was always A and newsstand was always B. It's especially annoying when the designation is changed in the middle of a series. I've made a few verify mistakes when there's several issues in a row with direct and newsstand submissions in a series, and it flips after a number of them, so I click the nope instead of yup, or submit a pic of the wrong version cuz what was A is now B, and I have to go delete and submit again. Consistency is key and more important than ancient history that most collectors these days have no idea about, or care, they just want both versions, or one or the other, and easiness of cataloging them..
Not gonna take the time to hunt down Ron's post about that to see if he mentioned if it would be a big pain to change things now, so he can chime in and let us know. Maybe start a poll too, if enough members would see it and bother to vote.
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