Posted: 25 April 2024 at 5:24am | IP Logged | 1
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...I swear I marked the proper date on my phone's To Do app, but...
This day marks 20 years and 9 days (hence the topic title, wow!) for me on the JBF.
What can I possibly say, apart from "what a ride?"
Well, I can say that this is possibly the one place I can call home on the Internet.
This is a place I've checked in on an almost daily basis for two-thirds of the time I've been online.
It's where I go when I want to see civil discussion about comics, film, TV and social and political issues when I've had enough of the snarky "you're-an-idiot-and-everything-you-like-is-wrong" atmosphere of so-called social media.
It's what social media should ideally be. A moderated forum, not policed by a billionaire megalomaniac's crazed algorithms and the whims of people who are bored, lonely, sadistic or all of the above.
Most importantly, it's the one place where you can interact with one of the greatest creators in comics. In person. (I can still remember jumping up from my chair and taking a little stroll around the room when JB first replied to one of my comments!)
OK. I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed just trying to describe how much I've enjoyed all of it: the artwork, commissioned and otherwise produced (ELSEWHEN, especially, is a true wonder), all the stories from the depths of comic-book history in the past 50 years or so, all the insights shared about matters common to humankind in general...
I'm rambling, so time to close.
THANK YOU to JB, the Mods, and everyone else here.
Onward!
Edited by Aki Himmanen on 25 April 2024 at 5:26am
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