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You know, I’m used to forgetting my anniversary…but how the heck did I missing it entirely for the last three years? Yes, 2021, the first year I forgot, had Art Soundoff and me trying to recover from hernia surgery but there’s no excuse for every year since. When Google Calendar reminded me that this year was another anniversary I thought I’d be doing the best of year 14 and moving on.

Then I go hunting for last year’s anniversary post and notice there isn’t one. While I remembered the Jake & Leon anniversaries I missed looking over the best articles of the past few years. That’s three years worth! So for the next few Thursdays I’ll be playing catch-up. At least I know what I’ll be doing on Thursdays the rest of November.

Okay, let’s focus. November 16, 2008. I had been recovering from Crohn’s first two acts of putting me in the hospital. (Can we stop doing that now?) While recovering I came upon comic blogs like Comic Coverage, Slay Monstrobot Of The Deep, Comics Oughta Be Fun, and Siskoid’s Blog Of Geekery. Siskoid is currently the only blog updating regularly. Bully The Little Stuffed Bull posts now and then last I saw, Mark Engblom ended Comic Coverage, and sadly Brian Snell passed away–although he still gets views because Slay Monstrobot still shows up in my referrals list for visitors coming to BW.

I made my first post talking about good things about the Spawn cartoon from HBO. I hate Spawn in both comics and cartoon. It’s too violent for my tastes and really doesn’t know anything about the Bible or the war between God and Satan. However, it’s well drawn, well animated, told the intended stories well enough from what little I watched, and you can rarely go wrong with Keith David voicing your protagonist. It was to show that something can be good but not to your taste and that’s okay…a lesson that seems to be disappearing in 2023 as “creators” turn things they don’t like into things they do and insist they’re making it better because it’s what they like and only their tastes matter. I call them the “everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” crowd.

I hope you like that bit of history…because for the sake of archives I’m going to be telling it every Thursday until we get caught up. From November 16, 2020 to November 15, 2021 here are the article that strike me as some of my best work. Since 2021 was the aforementioned hernia surgery I’m expecting a lot of missing days.

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