January 2005
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 0:02 AM
Alright guys here's the deal: I WAS going to post a review today, but I found some inspiration for an editorial, so instead of getting a review today you are getting a new editorial to read! Check it out in the "Editorials" section, and I'll see you Friday with the new review.
Monday, January 24, 2005 2:36 PM
Just to let you know, today's update has officially been post poned until tomarrow. Sorry for the delay, but today has just been too crazy to finish the final draft of the review. See you all tomarrow.
Friday, January 21, 2005 0:02 AM
As I promised you on Monday I have posted my review for the blockbuster bomb "Elektra." Wasn't up as fast as I was hoping it would, but you can only control these things so much. I would like to take this oppertunity to thank all of you reading this for being faithful readers, as this week this site officially passed the 5000 hits mark that most sites consider to be the first true landmark of hits you are supposed to get when you make a hit website. Well I don't know if my website is THAT much of a hit, but I sure do appriciate all the visitors. Here's hoping to keep you coming back in the future and hopefully more people will come too. Also my car has broken down, and unfortunetly it's going to cost me a lot of money to fix. To help off the costs, I am selling a lot of my manga and other stuff on eBay over the next few days, and new items such as DVD's and what not will also appear. So check it out and see if there is anything you want to bid on and help me out. Otherwise though see you on Monday.
Monday, January 17, 2005 1:51 PM
Hello one and all. I know I said there would be a new review posted today, and I didn't lie, I just posted my review of "Tokyo Tribes." Yes it's late, I'm sorry about that, but I had a crazy weekend as well as a crazy morning. I was thinking of delaying posting the review until Friday, but with school starting again on Tuesday, I just knew that I better post something today just in case the start of school caused more delays to the updates. So better a late review instead of no review at all. By the way, I HAVE seen "Elektra," and my review of the movie will be posted on Friday! Little sneak preview of what's to come. See you then.
Friday, January 14, 2005 4:56 PM
Due to circumstances beyond my control, there will be no new review today. Sorry for the inconvinience and I'll see you Monday with a new review.
Monday, January 10, 2005 1:03 AM
Because I didn't finish my manga review in time for today's update, I have instead posted a slightly positive/slightly negative review of Scott Kurtz's "PVP: The Dork Ages." Needless to say, a lot of "PVP" fans aren't going to like this review (if it makes you feel better, I enjoy the actual "PVP" comic strip a LOT more then I enjoy this book). I have now added a new section to the ghost town message board of mine: Fan Reviews! For those of you who've wanted to try writing your own comic book, movie, or video game reviews, you now have a place to share you're reviews with everyone and get commented on your work. I decided to open this section when a friend of mine wanted to know if there was a way he could share some of his reviews (and writing in general) on my site. Opening this section will give everyone a chance to share their opinions of their favorite comics (or to write a rebutal review to one of my reviews that you may disagree with). I look forward to reading what you guys have to say.
Friday, January 7, 2005 0:07 AM
And so it is Friday, and I have a review for Craig Thompson's latest book "Carnet de Voyage" ready for you to read. See you guys on Monday with a new manga review (sorry American lovers, but manga's are still comics, and they must be reviewed). I may have a new opinion up later on today or tomarrow, so check back later on.
Tuesday, January 4, 2005 11:14 PM
I would like to take this moment to ask for a moment of silence, as comic book master Will Eisner has passed away today. He will be greatly missed.
Monday, January 3, 2005 0:08 AM
Hello everyone! Sorry about not updating last week, but I have an excuse: I was lazy. Yeah, my excuse is that I was simply too lazy to update, so sue me. Anyway, it is now the year 2005. Will the end of the year come like everyone's saying it will? Well I don't know, but until the world DOES come to end I will still be reviewing comic book! Seeing as how it is a new year, I decided it was a good time to make some new years resolutions for this site:
- Review more American comic books (something I've been SERIOUSLY neglecting).
- Try to get more interviews (calling Scott Kurtz: You still haven't returned my e-mails).
- Write more editorials (websnark.com is killing me when it comes to comic book commentaries).
- Sponser some contests (I'll talk about this in detail later, but basically I want to create some contests for the wonderful readers of the site, and I'm trying to figure out how to pull it off).
- Finish reviewing all the comic book inspired movies.
- Finish my second internet project (this one most likely won't be done until next year, but it WILL be worth the wait)!
- Review syndicated comic strips (hey, why not? I'm sure you guys would love to hear my opinions on Garfield and The Far Side right? RIGHT?!).
Hmm, well, I think that's it for now. If I have any more resolutions I'll make sure to post them later. In the mean time I think this is a good place to start. I'm esspecially going to try and focus on making sure that there is just as much weekly commentary as there are reviews on this site. I mean, I probably could cheat and just add my commentary in the updates I make (where I talk about my personal life, something I'm sure many of you care nothing about, but it sure is fun to write about), but how many people can you honestly say read the updates archive for websites they visit? Yeah, that's what I thought. Of course, I have to warn you ahead of time that none of this will really be taking effect until February at least. Sorry, but there's something else I'm going to be working on that will require lots of time, and once I finish with that I will have a lot more time on my hands for this site. In the mean time you can still read my weekly reviews and chat on the message board (and debate what my mysterious "second project" is). So then, it's a new year, new resolutions, and I'm going to start fullfilling my resolutions today with the review of "Daredevil" up now. See you guys later (most likely Friday, but I won't promise anything).