Our forum has been down for well over two days now. EZBoards are working on dozens of their PUB servers and hundreds of board admins are posting complaints so it looks like a major outage, but EZBoard is putting up new servers to handle the load. I’ll let you all know when it starts working…

Mr. Spratling has a birthday today. Congrats, Eric! Speaking of birthdays, mine is coming up in March. If anyone wants to get me a new job as an early present, I’d appreciate it! Yes, I’m job-hunting. I have no clue what this means for my time that I can spend on Monitor Duty, but if…

We recently announced the winners of the Big Geek Wad contest, but one of them has not responded to e-mails by 2/15. Therefore, runner-up Stephen Legge now advances to second place and will receive a copy of “Comic Book: The Movie” on DVD as well as a signed edition of “Job Wanted.” This means we…

I’ve decided that, although I have reservations about the whole thing, I’m going to enter the Top Cow/Wizard contest. That means barricading myself into my office this weekend and finishing up a proposal that Phil Meadows and I have been cooking up for a while. Thus, I won’t be contributing much to the site until…

Apologies to Bruce Bachand; I didn’t mean to steal his thunder. I checked Monitor Duty to see if anyone had posted about Schwartz’s death and Bruce’s post did not appear…apparently due to a site rebuilding error. Incidentally, if any other contributors would like to post their thoughts on Julius, assuming they’re different from what has…

Congratulations to Kevin R. Dumcum, winner of the Big Geek Wad! Kevin wins a DVD of Mark Hamill’s “Comic Book: The Movie“, a signed copy of our comic book “Job Wanted“, the first three issues of “Shooting Star Comics Anthology“, three CD-ROM comics, Punisher movie buttons and an assortment of comic items. The first runner-up…

What with comic book writing projects, looking for a new job and all, I’ve been a bit busy. Apologies for being away. The “Big Geek Wad” winners will be determined and announced tonight. (I finally have a printer for printing up the entries!) I’ll also be putting up a new banner, obviously. (Note to self:…

Just a reminder that we have a new Reviews Section which is now getting more and more in the way of content. Yes, I’m still redoing the site’s navigation and eventually it will be much easier to make out those two links under the logo.

Just one week left to go before the drawing of the BIG GEEK WAD! Meanwhile, look for Monitor Duty’s review of “Comic Book: The Movie” later today.

I am removing the comments field. Apparently there are now spam tools for auto-generating comments and posting links to porn. Great. As it was, I was removing the comments and pushing comment links over to the forum, anyway. This just causes me to do it a few days earlier.