I'm trying to experiment with a new way of doing a comics-oriented blog. My latest experiment is a new blog called Giant-Size Marvel.
This new blog will be devoid of my various pseudonyms. It will (obviously from the name) feature material only about Marvel Comics, both old and new. And it will be more about artwork than my snarky comments. The images/scans will be quite large and you may even be able to use them as your desktop wallpaper. Drop on by and give me some feedback! Nuff said.
I've decided to shut down comments on Photon Torpedoes. We've never attracted a great deal of comments, so it's probably not a big deal. We are getting spammed quite a bit, and it's leaking through my Spam filter. I've been manually deleting about 80 per day. The spammers have gotten very creative lately and started writing comments that almost appear legit:
Veteran game show host Bob Barker is stepping down from hosting The Price is Right after 35 years...
The Rolling Stones cancel a gig in Hawaii and postpone other tour dates as Mick Jagger suffers throat troubles...
Microsoft and Peter Jackson postpone the making of a film based on the Halo video game after backers pull out...
My spam filter treats these as valid comments. When I try to ban the commenters, Movable Type gives me this message:
One or more comments you selected were submitted by an unauthenticated commenter. These commenters cannot be Banned or Trusted.
I suppose I could sit down and add more anti-spam modules for MT, but I'm too busy at the present time. We really appreciate all the non-spam comments that were posted over the past few years. If you wish to contact me, send email to kidflash at photontorpedoes dot com. Nuff said.
We finally figured out why feedback wasn't working, when one day Warlock tried to use the word "porn" and it was rejected. Movable Type has a filter that prevented any slightly mature word from being posted. This is disabled now...
The grand opening of Gallery Photon is this weekend, click here to enter. I'll be featuring an array of my favorite comic covers and pin-ups here. To start with, I have a section devoted to Brian Bolland, and another section dedicated to my favorite super-hero, The Flash. Come on in, Elvira won't bite you!
Because no one demanded it, here's the lowdown on the gang of idiots behind Photon Torpedoes! Let's start by mentioning our reviews and surfers, in chronological order of their date of birth.
Cousin Dick was born in the 1961 and witnessed the birth of Marvel Comics first hand. He remembers the good old days before the Crisis--before the gawl danged communists took over the DCU. A frequent letter writer back in the good ol' days, you would have found Cousin appearing in the letter columns for US1, The Badger, Peter Parker Spider-Man, and Amazing Heroes. He thinks the greatest comic series ever written and drawn was US1 by one Al "Super-Star" Milgrom and the greatest song ever written was "Dang Me" by Roger Miller. Don't disagree with him or he'll run you over in his semi-truck on the way to Wal-Mart. He lives in Butte County in a secret hillside fortress secured against the coming liberal invasion. He reviews comics for us while consuming a twelve-pack or Miller beer. Don’t try that at home, kids!
Kid Flash was born in 1971, next to Three Mile Island and a PW Market that carried all the DC 100 page giants for 50 cents, which makes him our expert on the Golden Age and Silver Age. A qualified liberal, Kid balances out the Ying of Cousin with a dollop of Yang--meaning that he only drinks Napa Valley Cabernet wines. Kid's favorite comics are the Spirit and all of the 80s work by Alan Moore: Swamp Thing, MiracleMan, and Watchmen. He lives for entertainment and plays so many video games, watches so many television shows, and reads so many books that he barely has time to go to the bathroom. His favorite music includes the soundtracks to The Matrix, SSX 3, and Need For Speed Underground 2. Kid lives somewhere in the Bay Area of California.
Warlock was born in 1981 in a London flat and is rumored to be the illegitimate love child of Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Raised by a kindly old butler named Alfred, he was given liberal quantities of comics and Atari video games in an effort to stop him from asking, “What’s my Daddy doing in China?” Despite this, Warlock has many liberal tendencies. He loves Guinness, Star Wars, First Person Shooters, and his favorite musical group is The Human League (Mirror Man must be listened to while reading "Rogues War" in the Flash). Warlock thinks that Jim Shooter’s Secret Wars and John Byrne’s Man of Steel are just peachy keen, although he does seem to be the only person on staff who likes Grant Morrison’s Doom Patrol. Suffice to say that Warlock is quirky, independent, and often contradictory!
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