Readers new and old, young and mature, human and anything other than human, thank you for supporting your host and this new world we've created! It's because of all you sorry saps I've been motivated enough to continue this blog and expand it day by day! As congrats I'd like to open the origin book one more time to invite even more readers! So if you have a friend who likes superheroes even the slightest, tell them about this blog! And without further stalling, allow me to reintroduce this world! Loyal readers and newfound friends...
Escorted by The Panel Biter's most popular post personalities, Misfit from "Mis-Fitting In", Starfox from "Sex Offenders....In Spaaace!" and Hercules from "Oh, My Various Gods!". And they're not the only titular faces around here, but we'll talk about that more later! I created The Panel Biter last September and it seems like it's been forever since it began with my childhood Halloween photos. I was Cyclops, by the way. Over the months The Panel Biter grew in readers, especially after I established it's Facebook and Twitter pages sometime later, this allowed many of my own personal friends to follow my ridiculous ramblings! I introduced segments like Rant & Recommend, Top 5's, Pitch-It, The Weekly Z-Lister, and Predictions Panel between all my Single Issue posts. I wanted to establish a flexibility here, being engraved in comics enough to know the lore, but kind enough to simplify comic books for fresh readers. After all, that's how The Panel Biter began, as a source superhero fans could visit to educate themselves on comic book history. Sometimes that means explaining stupidly complex comic book events, describing both known and obscure characters, and giving my own opinion of the media's depiction of comic books. Now we see a time in which The Panel Biter evolves further!
Sometime ago I met a man named Webby. Well, we all call him Webby. Webby is a member of The Distractions Media, another pop culture savvy podcast group featuring D&D games and Top 3's and Star Wars-themed discussions. A group of fellow geeks like Austin, Anthony, Jon, Robert, Quigley, Jake, Sabrina, Devin and Colin. If you're reading this guys, I'm happy to have met you all! And if we haven't properly met, I look forward to meeting you! I guest starred on two of their podcasts (Three Worst Things and Tavern Talk) and I can assume I'll appear on more. Unless they're upset about me raiding their fridge. Regardless! I am grateful to be invited into their podcast world, so grateful I've picked up the podcast bug! Two episodes in and The One-Shot Podcast is getting it's footing, footing that struggles to step around the laws of Apple, but still standing! Although I've played solo two times before, I can assure you I have guests coming to join my talkative tour through comic book media! In fact, you just might meet a few new faces on The Panel Biter's upcoming video series, Comic Buffet! This show will be my first video appearance and with me I'll bring some old friends and you'll enjoy the reactions they have when I tell them the freakiest and coolest of comic book stories. It's like what I normally do when we hang out, but on camera.
Doing this blog and especially The Weekly Z-Lister has allowed me to meet and reconnect with so many under-the-rug characters! Moon-Boy & Devil Dinosaur, Comet, Mogo, Detective Chimp, Dex-Starr and so many more. Too many, some would say. Oh, I almost forgot Forget-Me-Knot! See? There are so many comic book characters, spanning from now to the 1940's! Eighty years of lore can seem overwhelming, but you learn so much about a decade by the characters that come out of it. You think Carnage could've worked in the 50's? You think Captain America wasn't meant for the days of World War II? Hell, some of my favorite characters are allegories for world views and cultures, and we look at these colorful characters just for their cool powers, but not often do people explore what went into these characters. Another perk to writing The Panel Biter! I feel more connected with world views by looking into these characters and have found no demographic has gone untouched in the superhero community. Muslim? You got Ms Marvel. Handicapped? You got Oracle. Gay? Here's Northstar. Gay and amused by violence? Midnighter, folks. Anti-superhero and amused by violence? Punisher, baby! Amused by violence? Every comic from 1989 to 1999. Anthropomorphic duck? Howard The Duck! It's an endless market, covering westerns, crime noir, comedy, science fiction, horror and so many other tones! Even romance, if you dig deep enough. Don't dig too far though, you might end up on 4Chan.
Every day I fall on my bed and think, "What I could do next". What could I do to bring more readers enjoyable content? Produce independent comics? Become a Youtuber? Intergrade The Panel Biter's software into Skynet? My entire life, reading and writing were the only things I never got tired of. I want to be a comic book writer. I think of myself as a comic book guru. But, in reality, I'm another comic book reader. Another fan. Just like all of you, the only difference being that I've set out to share my comic book interests with everyone. That and I'm secretly a Skrull. I am truly grateful for all of you who read and if you could share this post or tell your friends about The Panel Biter I'd be far more appreciative for your help. Come on loyal readers, let's build The Panel Biter higher up together! I hope you enjoy your time here on The Panel Biter and I hope you continue to read! I hear it's healthy. So have a wonderful day, I will talk to you again soon, and as always...
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