And now, for something completely different...!
(Sort of.)
I've mentioned my good friend Art (AKA Grozz) before here on Monstrous Matters when I wrote a bit about the boxing microgame
Ring Doctors that he inspired me to try creating. Since then, I've learned that (1) his name is, indeed, Art, and (2) we share
many interests beyond the tabletop sports sims that were at the center of our meeting back during Covid. I'm not even completely sure what he knew about me that led him to take this specific approach, but it was somewhere around the time he left a random voice text that was just a selection from Rorschach's journal (read in character) that I was like, "Yeah, I think this dude is weird enough that we'll probably get along pretty well..."
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As we talked comics more, I realized that Art took the time...seemingly after every comic he read...to put together concise but detailed reviews of the work he had just made his way through. As in...it seems to be part of his process...like a comic isn't fully digested until he has it summarized in review form. And he was about to take a journey through a list he found of the top 100 graphic novels ever. It's the kind of thing that I would want to share here on the blog if I were ever organized and methodical enough to do it for everything I read. But, y'know. I'm not.
BUT...I also thought it'd be cool to collect his reviews in one place. And since I have a blog about nerd stuff...I have that power. And so, today I introduce to you a new section of Monstrous Matters...Gettin' Graphic With Grozz. There's a permalink up there on the menu bar below the header; I'll try to post when new entries are added. The plan is for them to be collected on that page as long as Monstrous Matters is plugging along as an amorphous expression of my life and interests. As a bonus (for me)...I've just started a new job and have fallen off of the blogging schedule I managed to build up for a little while there, so this gives me something to make me feel like I'm tending my little corner of cyberspace a little more than I actually am... ;)
I definitely appreciate Art "trusting" me with his reviews! Obviously, this isn't exactly a hub of internet nerddom, so I'd be a little surprised if the overall number of eyeballs on his work is actually increased significantly by appearing here in addition to the other spots on the web where folks post reviews...
But, hey...you never know. And to all of you readers/victims of the usual Monstrous Matters content, I hope you enjoy! It's all definitely a work in progress...please let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions for making this feature worth even more of your time.
(Oh! And in case it needs to be said: Art's opinions, on comics or anything else, are not mine, nor do my opinions = Art's. And the opinions expressed in "Gettin' Graphic With Grozz" are not the official stance of Monstrous Matters. I suppose you could say that my opinions actually are the official stance of Monstrous Matters, but that view implies a level of perceived self-importance that makes me pretty uncomfortable, so I'm not gonna be the one who says it.)
