Hello Fellow Geeks and Geekettes!

[xpistos]

My name is X, yes X! I was given this name some time ago and was very upset at the time.

Since then, I have grown to love the name after I became a comic book fan in college and learned about the power of "X" in the comics world. If you are asking yourself, how could such a handsome, intelligent and let's not forget modest individual such as myself get interested in comics at such an usually point in my life? Well the answer is ... it is my wife's fault. Yes in every fanboy's fantasy, my wife, who was my girlfriend at the time, is the one that said, "Hey X," and yes she calls me X too, "Hey X, do you think the issue where Superman dies would be a good thing to have?" My reaction was ... "I think it would be cool to have that." Little did either of us know that she would then set in motion a chain of events that would ultimately land me to register at the Digital Comics Museum today!

Over the years, I had to make financial decisions that took me away from comics. As a family man with 4 kids, what can you do. I made the honorable choice, but always kept one eye on comics and always looked for a way back. I wrote for a small regional paper for a few years and it gave me the chance to write a weekly column about comics. I hosted a radio show about comics for a while back in the 90's. Today, I have taken the podcasting plunge back in October of 2010 and have meet with some modest success to this point.

In any event, because I am still unsure of the rules of the forum (I have to learn to read before I type) I will withhold the name of the show for now. But I have learned one valuable lesson from being a comic, movie and television fanatic - old does not mean bad! Old comics, when they are done well just like old Movies and Television, grab a hold of you and never let go. Hell, some creators love them so much, they update them for today's readers. Yes, Alex Ross and Dynamite Entertainment I am talking about you!

Well I have rambled on for long enough. I guess ... if I had to sum this all up in one word ... I would say ...

Hi.

[narfstar]

Hello and welcome X

[Yoc]

Welcome X.
If you like them old and free, you've found the right place.
Lots and lots to explore.

Enjoy!
-Yoc

[jfglade]

Old does not mean obsolete either. There is a world of good reading here, in a variety of genres, and I think you will enjoy the material.

[hhbooker2]

"Greetings & Salutations!" In my time they were NERDS and probably would have been NERDETTES too? GEEKS were long time carnival workers who were advanced aocoholics unempliyabel elsewhere who bit the heads off of live chickens for cheap entertainment of the sideshow viewers crowd under the canvas! Never ever saw a female GEEKETTE?  Worked for a carnival for a week running a merry-go-around ("Jenny") and found that live an existence! I shall be 69 years old in October on the 20th,  pushing 70!  Actually worst age is 39 going on 40, after that it does not matter, just give me a stack of comic books and a 2-litre of Diet Coco Cola, popcorn, French fries, sugar-free candy with Aspertame, etc., and solitude, maybe like Super,am's Fortress of Solitude with the mild mannered reporter for the Daily Planet goes to read comics too, no doubt? Respectfully yours, Sarge Booker of Tujunga, California