BW Media Spotlight

I need to double-check my numbering. I’m sure I’m off somewhere. We’re heading into year 16 of the site, but I thought Jake & Leon was heading into year 16 and that started almost a year into this site. Being off by a month is messing with my math. If this is year 16 that should be year 15. If that is year 16 this should be year 17. Shouldn’t it?

November 16th of 2008. Earlier that year I was stuck home recovering from Crohn’s disease causing inflammation that put me in the hospital. Twice. During the first recovery I discovered blogs like Slay Monstrobot Of The Deep, Comic Coverage, Siskoid’s Blog Of Geekery, and others. After the second recovery I realized I was writing comments that were way too long. Clearly I had things to say, as a lover of stories and storytelling and a goal of being one myself.

So it was that BW Media Spotlight, taking the name from my school time fake comic company BW Comics, was born. In recent years I’ve made actual BW Comics content, including a weekly gag comic, some video content, and would love to do more…if I could stop going to the doctor or being sick for long enough. That sounds worse than it is, but the distractions are just really bothering me this year, when I hoped to be a lot more creative than I ended up, not being able to create the workflow I had hoped to by now. I still enjoy doing this site, but there’s more I’d love to do and thus far haven’t been able to.

So it is anniversary time once again, and that means it’s time to go back through a year’s worth of posts, whatever the count is supposed to be. Let’s look at the best of this year’s content, from November 16 of last year through today (the actual anniversary is Saturday, but that’s Saturday Night Showcase time) and pick out my favorite reviews and commentaries through the year.

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