In 2008 I was home recovering from the hospital. I”m hoping this isn’t a trend for every eight years. I couldn’t go to work (I had a job back then), I couldn’t go anyplace; all I could do is sit there and read the internet or watch TV and online video. That was it. It was during this time that I discovered blogging. I had read sites like X-Entertainment (the precursor to Dinosaur Dracula) but a bigger blogging community I was not aware of. I spent my recovering reading sites like the original Comic Coverage, Siskoid’s Blog Of Geekery, Slay Monstrobot Of The Deep, and Comics Should Be Fun, and even replied to them. Soon my replies were reaching the three paragraph mark so I decided “if I have that much to say, why don’t I start my own blog?”, which was done.

On November 16th, 2008 the very first article was published to BW Media Spotlight, a defense of the Spawn cartoon. I don’t like the Spawn cartoon. Like the comic it’s dark, bloody, violent, and spiritually ignorant despite the heaven versus hell theme. However, the art and animation were good (at least the two episodes I could make myself watch), it did what it set out to do, and Keith David was perfectly cast and utilized as Al Simmons. It set up a point that I’ve kept throughout this site: I don’t have to like something to acknowledge it’s good, if only to the target audience, and I don’t have to hate something because it’s considered bad by anyone else. The opinions in my reviews are exclusively my own as I did into the art of storytelling.

Last year I wrote very few reviews and commentaries thanks to multiple hospital trips. Many of the articles were videos by other people or shorter reviews or article links. This year I wrote a lot more, so since there was no anniversary post last year I’m combining the two years. If you’re new here then one of these articles may be up your alley. As usual, “year” covers November 16th on, in this case November 16th, 2015 through November 16th of 2017.

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