So way back in the murky depths of the past (August 0f 2012--was it 
really that recently?), as you may or may not recall, I presented to the world 
my first effort at a fan translation of a comic story.  Specifically, it was a translation of a Faust story, 
"Il Dottor Paperus."  And for a while I was quite taken with my work, but time passed, I gained a bit more experience, and I came to realize what you all were too polite to tell me, which is that it was actually pretty darned shoddy work.  Specifically, there were three big problems with it:
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