Category: Site News

  • New Forum

    I’ve set up a new forum for our site. I just renewed the old one for another three months on Sunday; it couldn’t be avoided. I will have the site configured shortly. Should I import all of the threads from our old EZBoard forum or should we just start anew? Is any of this conversation…

  • Apologies to all our genuine linkers!

    I’ve been meaning to add a plugin to our site that will screen out the spammed comments and trackbacks…and I just did something stupid that makes it clear I need to do that soon! I was clearing out all of the “animal sex,” “black history month sex” and “casino” trackbacks, as I do every day.…

  • What the heck happened to me?

    I’m sure some of you were very surprised that I have been missing from this site for two weeks. What’s been happening? In the week before Wizard World Chicago, I was busy packing and had little time for posting. I didn’t even have the time to hype my comic, Metro Med #0, finally being printed!…

  • Fun day at Monitor Duty HQ

    We recently had an escape well added to our home. It’s a 5′ wide window in our basement so that in case of fire we could escape from the basement, and it adds in a ton of light to what was once gloom. Next we’re having the contractor put in ceramic tile in the basement…

  • My life is almost back

    Oy, I was so busy on Monday I didn’t post anything. I’ve just been working on getting Metro Med off to Scott McCullar. My entire day has been writing, writing. No time for cruising comic book news or reading columns or anything. In fact, I almost missed the significance of July 19th being the anniversary…

  • Don’t leave!

    I’m going to be busy for the next week getting Metro Med #0 to bed so that it can be printed in time for Wizard World Chicago. I have to make that priority #1. Phil Meadows is going to be busy finishing the art, so he can’t post anything. And R.B. is designing a logo…

  • Happy Independence Day!

    I’m going to give the site a little pep for the fourth. Graphics courtesy of PatriotIcon.org

  • Shout out to my peeps

    I’m still working on the redesign of Monitor Duty. The good news is that I just bought the Moveable Typbe Bible and it’s an extremely helpful book. It should make it much easier for me to figure out the best way to organize the site redesign. Until I feel I’ve read up enough about it,…

  • Time to buy!

    It has been so long since I’ve updated the Fanzing Shopping site. I haven’t even bought merchandise from there in two years, since the time I placed a rather massive order for the “All I really need to know I learned from COMIC BOOKS” shirts. I’ve been selling those at conventions for the last two…

  • In Memory of Ben “KryptonKid” Grose

    I had a bit of a shock this morning. I was searching my old contact list for digital colorists and, upon visiting the web site of Benjamin “KryptonKid” Grose, I found out that he died last November! Ben passed away from complications with muscular dystrophy at the age of only 25. I would like to…