Ah, the smell of it!

At long last, I’ve gotten ComicBase back installed on my PC. This is the world’s premiere comic book inventory database. About two years ago, I had it up and running and cranking with loading comic books in. Then a reformat, and a software upgrade, and my Muse decided it was Not the Thing to Do this season.

Well my Muse is back, poking me in the butt with her ice pick, so I got ComicBase 6.0 installed last night, and then spent a while trying to get it to read in my old ComicBase 4.0 file.

(This is a great program, really, no question about it, but it has a few distinct quirks that betray its Macintosh background. Just like Mac users complain about interface oddities and rough edges on programs ported from Windows, so this program is always just a slight bit off true in its behavior, sort of like the difference between American English and English English. Only less amusing. But don’t let that scare you off. It’s a great program.)

So, anyway, my collection, when last I left it two years ago, was about a third to a half entered into the database.

The issue count? Almost 6,000 comics.

And that was at most half of them.

Two years ago.

I have some work to do …