Just finished watching The Biggest Loser on NBC, and now that I’ve seen it I have to second what I said earlier: it’s the first good reality show I’ve seen, and how do I sign up?

Seriously. I’m in the ballpark of some of these guys. (NOT Maurice, thank goodness, but still…) Being overweight is so limiting. Okay, as a comic book writer it’s not the most limiting thing in the world….but back in high school I was an actor. Then I got a bald spot when I was 18, and by the time I finished college with a theater minor I’d lost so much hair I knew I’d never get an acting lead, so I gave up on that and pretty much gave up on my appearance. Now I’m 34 and I need to lose this weight.

There are tons (bad choice of words) of good reasons why I need to shed pounds, for everything from my health to making good first impressions.

And forget what I said in my earlier post…I do want that quarter million dollars so I can get out of debt and publish some more comic books!

So folks, regardless of whether you care about me personally, want to read my books…or just think it would be a hoot to see a comic book writer making jokes about being Bouncing Boy, etc. … then please help me in my campaign to get on “The Biggest Loser 2”!

Just e-mail nbcshows@nbc.com with the subject line “Biggest Loser 2!”, then tell them that you’d love to see me on the next season of the show and then link them to this post. Feel free to add whatever additional comments you like.

Oh, and no, they haven’t announced a second season, but by the time they do they will probably be filming it. And any reality show that isn’t a total dud gets renewed. They are popular amongst programmers because they’re cheap to make and the contestants work for relatively nothing. (A quarter-million dollar prize at the end of the show is nothing compared to paying “Joey” a milllion-plus per episode.)