BW Media Spotlight

Crohn’s. Diverticulitis. Blood clots. Hernias. It’s amazing I’ve even reached fourteen years of doing the site at this point. So yes, I forgot a few years and have been getting caught up on anniversary “best of” posts. And yet, here we are. Heading into year 15 of this site because I’m possibly an idiot and because I just feel like I did something worthwhile. Now I get to cover my favorite articles from November 16, 2022 through November 15, 2023. That means while I’m proud of some of the articles I wrote this week, I’ll save them for next year’s anniversary.

If I don’t forget.

For those of you coming in on this one, back in 2008 I was sent to the hospital–twice–with Crohn’s Disease, a digestive disorder that basically means the immune system in my gut has become the Punisher without what little moral code Frank Castle has. While recovering I discovered numerous blogs discussing comics and other media, and began to notice that my comments were getting into paragraphs of length. So I said the heck with it, took the “BW” from the comics I used to make in my teens, and BW Media Spotlight came about. It’s all in the about section so let’s get on with this. It’s time to finally get this year’s best articles a second chance to show their stuff.

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