Don't Let It Behind the Wheel

Reporting on Marvels and Legends starts Year 16! Just a couple of more years and I'll be yelling at it that mid-term elections are too important.

It's weird. I named this blog after the comic store I went to when it started, and now that store hasn't existed for half of this blog's existence. But as The Fortress Keeper once noted, 'at least the store wasn't named Joe's Comics.' Very true.

So what happened in Year 15? Oh right, the global pandemic. Certainly messed with reviews of single issues of comics, with the two-month stretch where there were no new comics. Things have gradually come back, although I keep expecting there to be another shutdown. More out of pessimism than any faith elected officials would do the smart thing and try to look after their citizenry's well-being. 

The tradeoff to that was a major uptick in posts reviewing trades and manga compared to past years. It helps I bought a lot more of both of those. It's been the usual mixed bag of good selections and bad ones. Although with a lot of the manga series, I didn't buy enough volumes to know which they are yet.

Also had a lot more Random Back Issues posts, but I enjoy those. Especially the older comics (which for me usually means the '90s) where there's just a ton going on to discuss in each issue, even if half of it makes no sense whatsoever.

My apartment didn't get wrecked by nature, even if the kids downstairs continue to disrupt my tranquility. But not enough to cause any blips in Sunday Splash Page, which made it from Bone to Steve Gerber's Defenders. My rough estimate at the moment is that by this time next year, I'll be most of the way through the Fs.

Otherwise, things were much the same as they have been. Book and movie posts on Tuesdays and Thursdays, some sort of comic-related thing Monday, Wednesday, Friday. For whatever reason, I felt like I had more ideas for random musings or theories than I had the last few years. Not sure why. Maybe the isolation forced my mind to come up with anything it could to stay occupied. Or I've just lost my filter entirely.

Tried to do Sketchtober again this year. It took into early November to actually finish all 29, but I got through them. Some turned out well, some of them are complete garbage. Business as usual. 

Didn't really do much writing with the cast of characters this year, outside of the traditional April Fools and Blogsgiving posts. That's one thing I'm hopefully going to rectify in Year 16. I have some ideas, I just need to focus on them instead of the fanfics I've been working on since November of last year. Or I could try juggling them all at once. Not sure I have the mental energy for that.

I don't foresee ending this blog any time soon, barring either my demise or civilization's. I've been looking at some of the other blog templates, to see if there's one I could use to make the posts wider. That way the double-page splashes for Sunday Splash Page could be a little more impressive looking. I haven't seen one I really liked so far, though. So best to assume Reporting on Marvels and Legends will retain the same look until the day you show up and it's actually different.

Thank you to everyone who reads and comments. Yeah, even the spam comment bots. I delete their comments, but I'll never forget that time they left a note about great casino opportunities in my post about Emma Frost being an unpleasant person. *sniff* It was so heartwarming and sincere.