Welcome to Adventures in Longboxes! (exclamation point as standard), comicdom's most redundant-before-it-started blog. Dipping its toe in to an already oversaturated market, A in L! to give it its truncated name, is here mainly as an excuse for me to be more prolific in attempts at putting finger to keyboard, but also as an exercise in celebrating all that is good in life about one of its greatest artforms - the comicbook. My name is Bell and I'll be your cantankerous host, without agenda, just acomputer.
Will we stay solely focused to comics? Probably not. More's the chance that you'll find me waxing on TV, movies, music and other happenings. Rest assured however, there will always be some form of geek angle to whatever shows up here, as it's hardwired into my DNA.
One of the main reasons for this whole thing kickstarting is because in my times of lurking on messageboards I have grown to spit bile at the use of the word 'meh'. This delightful expression of apathy has, of late, seemed to have become some form of acceptable critique. Not so in the eyes of A in L! Offering no constructive form of criticism to those the term is directed at, and revealing a lack of passion and a limited vocabulary on the behalf of those that use it, 'meh' does no favours for anyone, and so it has no place on this blog. If something is awesome, I will tell you for why, and if it's not, I will at least offer some kind of sophmorish critique explaining so.
So, the manifesto:
1) I will try not to suck.
2) That's about it.
This is the modern world, so follow this blog on Twitter: www.twitter.com/longboxes and we'll have one of those new-fangled MySpacebook pages up soon. The first person to post 'meh' under this blog will not only recieve my disdain, but also my lifelong friendship for letting me know that someone's reading this. Onwards!
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