First Post! New Project! Radical!

Greetings, friends! My name is Dobson, and I'm the co-creator over at yourstupidminds.com, a post-college continuation of a club started by myself and Nick to keep us off the streets by reviewing camp and genre movies. I still do that, and it's fun! Check it out if you haven't! But this project comes from my first love: comic books. Specifically, comic books that were made when I was a kid in the early to mid-90's. These comics by and large have a bad rap. While Jim Lee's art is still amazing and 1992-1994 is probably the most relevant the comic book industry had been to pop culture in years, a lot of the books have the reputation for being... not great. Which I just don't get at all!

Seriously, this belongs in a museum!

So this blog is a venue for me to review comics during a period of crazy excess, combining criticism, commentary and humor. I don't mind just straight-up recommending my influences: the Tom vs. podcast, Chris Sims's occasional comic book reviews on Comicsalliance, Not Blog X, and Gentleman of Leisure (who helped come up with a name) are what I'm trying to combine into one amalgamation. 

Or... Amalgam.

I'm going to vary the actual comics I review, but for the most part I'm going to be reviewing books that haven't been reviewed often or at all online, because the internet was too busy downloading photos of Teri Hatcher at alarmingly slow speeds at the time and couldn't be bothered to review Tom DeFalco's Fantastic Four.

That said, my first post will be about Spider-Man.