A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Not Far Away

Some of you may know that I started reviewing comics at ComicBookGalaxy in the year 2000, and spent several years there on and off, working with my pal Alan David Doane as a reviewer, columnist and editor. Great fun, most of the time, and I learned a lot. But the weird thing with me (well, not THE weird thing, but one of them) is that I very rarely read any of my old stuff. Once I write it, I forget it, so I'm sure there's a lot of reviews and such that are lost. And...whatever. It's not that big a deal to me. But late last week, Alan sent me a link to Archive.org and it turns out they have a good chunk (with some frustrating gaps) of old Galaxy stuff, plus Alan has a fair amount of it saved as well. So I've been reading a lot of it and really enjoying the reminiscing, plus my memory is so faulty that often I can read an old column of my own and make myself laugh. It's also kind of inspiring--man, I sure poured a lot of hours into those columns back in those days. I was reading one today, originally at MoviePoopShoot, the Kevin Smith pop culture site I went to after CBG, and in one I not only had reviews of new comics but reviews of some Eros porn comics/graphic novels I'd received to review, and part of a multipart series looking at Matt Wagner's Grendel comics. It was really an overwhelming column, and I did that stuff every week. Of course, it helped lead to me being single again, but still, it makes me want to really kind of attack comics again with more gusto, and more double-entendres and puns. Beware!

There was a lot of good stuff produced at CBG over the years. Maybe we should try to pull some of it out of the void so people can see it again.