Huh, just realized now that he left. That sucks. I haven't been active on this site in a long time but for a while it was my preferred spot. That was when Sara was still around and before it was bought out.
After the buy-out they did a redesign and some of the content filtering in the forums was broken. You used to be able to un-select all the stuff you didn't care about, like battles forum and RPG, and but then get everything else with one click. This was critical for me because they put so many posts and threads in really granular sub-forums. Like a sub-forum for one specific issue of a comic named after the storyline title. It's like...ok. Now that I have to manually mark forum I want to see as "favorite" and I still won't get the one-off stuff or I'm inundated with threads I don't care about and wow this is entirely too much work. When I asked about it the response was "that feature never existed" and I didn't feel like arguing the point with someone who clearly didn't care.
So I got less active on the forums, I got less mindful of the posts, and then it got to the point where I would always open CV with all the other bookmarks in that folder, scan the first page for anything interesting and close the tab, and only stopped to read today when I noticed the posts have been the same for a while—barely updating.
I think it's probably time that I dropped this off my bookmarks. Bummer, because I had a lot of posts I loved here and even made a go at the blog thing for a while. Chief among them my Sentry blog post and my rant thread against the name Red Robin. Those still get bumped every once in a blue moon.
Feels silly to post a farewell comment since I've basically already been gone for like 2 years. Ah well. Thanks CV, you were good while you were good.
Yep. And I'm glad to see this reaction because Falcon was all "that's profiling!" and I'm like...isn't it more like advanced risk assessment? Unless you're throwing people in jail for stuff they didn't actually do yet--hat tip minority report--I don't see the down side.
...This was the man in the industry I most loved and most looked up to.
I cannot express how awful this is. He gave us New Frontier, which in my opinion is the greatest comic ever written, and more importantly he knew what comics really were, and wasn't afraid to say that the industry needed to change.
I wish I could have met him and let him know the impact he's had on me, and the medium I love so much.
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