{"id":5070,"date":"2009-08-09T11:14:31","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T16:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=5070"},"modified":"2009-08-09T11:14:31","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T16:14:31","slug":"update-for-8909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=5070","title":{"rendered":"Update for 8\/9\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New reviews for Amazing Adult Fantasy #21 by Tim Doyle and Eraser Dust #5 by R.C. Johnston.\u00c2\u00a0 It turns out that TODAY is the 8th anniversary of the site.\u00c2\u00a0 Um&#8230; huzzah!\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks to everybody who has supported it over the years, either with free comics or with buying comics, or just the general well-wishers.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t always answer those e-mails because there&#8217;s nothing more awkward to me than responding to somebody saying how much they like the site, but I do read and appreciate them.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, thanks to the old e-mail file of one Jason Dupuis (who is one of the few people besides me to have reviews up on this site), here is the original forward when I was getting things rolling.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t keep up with the interviews, obviously, because it took a lot more time than you would think to do the research.\u00c2\u00a0 I also changed the name of the site after a couple of lawyer friends informed me that Xerox could sue the bejesus out of me if they ever noticed my existence.<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Chances are that you people don't know me, but if<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; you're getting this it's because I've been<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; reading your stuff for1-9 years now\u00c2\u00a0and you've done<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; wonders to shape my view of the world.\u00c2\u00a0 I've<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; decided to open up a site, called Xerox Army, to try my best<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; to get everything small press together in one place so<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; it's easier for people to find.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting all the<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; mini comics in the world together was my original goal, but<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; I've expanded it to include small press comics of all<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; shapes and sizes and a number of graphic novels.\u00c2\u00a0 I<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; have an interview up with James Kochalka and plan on getting<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; another one up with different comic people\u00c2\u00a0every two<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; weeks.\u00c2\u00a0 I don't have much technical skill going for<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; me, mostly all I have is a love of comics and a belief that<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; they should be seen by a lot more people.\u00c2\u00a0 I explain<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; all these points a lot better on the website: www.xeroxarmy.com.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; Check it out, give me suggestions, tell me you think<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; it's terrible, whatever.\u00c2\u00a0 But I'll need your<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; help to make it successful (no, I don't mean your money)<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; because I want as wide of a variety as possible, and<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; there's only so much stuff I know about on my own.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; I want this to have everything under the sun that anybody<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; could possibly want and I think it's possible to do<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; that.\u00c2\u00a0 I hope to hear from you soon with<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; recommendations of stuff that I should have on the<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; site.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks for your time and please, check out the<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; site: www.xeroxarmy.com.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; I'll be updating it pretty much constantly.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>\r\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">&gt; Whitey<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New reviews for Amazing Adult Fantasy #21 by Tim Doyle and Eraser Dust #5 by R.C. 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