Have you ever had that experience where something that has been entirely absent in your life for awhile suddenly begins to show up on your radar again? My evil American doppelganger at Progressive Ruin has finally dropped Flat Earth from his sidebar, despite some initial hesitation. Furthermore, The Comic Treadmill recently succumbed to year-end listmania, including a list devoted to noteworthy comic blogs that have since retired. My former comic blog is on that list. It’s nice to be remembered, especially since it’s been such a long time and so much has changed in comics and comics blogging since I quit.
Case in point, within minutes of stepping off of the plane in Vancouver my brother asked me if I was down with the O.Y.L. I had no idea what he was talking about. It turns out that O.Y.L. is what all the cool kids are calling One Year Later, a forthcoming DC comics stunt. Apparently, after the events of Infinity Crisis, comics set in the DC Universe will take place one year in the future with what actually happened during that year slowly being revealed. It’s appropriate then that this jarring gap in time is exactly how I feel about resuming my duties as a pseudo-comic blogger.
Although I still read the occassional comic blog over the past two years, without regular access to the internet, I’ve lost touch. I never realized just how difficult it would be to jump back in. In fact, immersing myself in that world once again is not dissimiliar to the peril one faces in jumping into the multi-title, continuity-driven multiverses of the average superhero comic after a brief break. In a way, the comics blogosphere has become a representation of the very comics it covers. Other then those few blogs that are entirely independent from the more community driven ones, the new reader would almost need a scorecard to determine who’s fighting who, how various discussions originated, which alternate Earth various blogs belong to, and most importantly, which of the multitudes of comic blogs available are worth my time.
Hi Steve!
I’m still pondering the creation of a “Defunct Weblog Hall of Fame” or something of the sort for the site. Flat Earth was one of my favorites, which I think you already knew.
Thanks, Mike. But of course Flat Earth was one of your favourites, considering we were seperated at birth. Case in point, your most recent posting of a fragment from a D&D ad. Fuck THAC0. You scooped me on that one AND on Blip, Mike, but I’ll get you back. You can count on it.
If only I had a picture of you in the “Fuck THAC0” t-shirt I made for you for that comic con all those years ago…
Whatever, man. I still have that shirt. Over time the iron-on has become yellowed while the shirt remains the same, making it look somewhat sweat-stained and awesome. I’ll have to remember to bring it with me when next I visit the Rose City.