The Web Haunt of Ryan K Lindsay

Yes, as some of you already know, I’ve sold out.

I’m a corporate player now, I’ve got the logo on the sleeve, and the party line memorised in the back of my brain. I’m just another shocktroop on the front line taking schrapnel for the big brains back in the tent who move us through the theatre of war like little rock pieces on a gaol chess board. It’s sad, but also so very cool.

The Weekly Crisis is a comic news and opinion website that I have grown to especially love over the past year or so of my internet trolling campaign. It’s written by four guys and they each have a unique perspective on the comics they read and the things that they like. I have read standard reviews, I have looked at brilliant covers and scanned moments of the week, and I have immersed myself in fantastic Top Ten fan lists and op/ed pieces about the state of the comics world today.

I stop at The Weekly Crisis first at all times, which is, sadly, actually no lie. It’s a fun site, it keeps me up to date and I like the tone of it all. It’s personal, it’s more of a group blog that some newshound site looking for hits and money from links. This is comic love born from comic love, and I love that.

I contributed some guest articles on there, and comment a fair bit, when the time is right, and now I’ve earned my stripes. Rather than have me pester them constantly from the outside, windows jangling as I force muddy palms up against them to see inside through the glare, the door has been opened. I can warm my feet by the fire of opinion, sip on the delicious hot chocolate of fan servitude, and hunker down with a decent comic to read under the sturdy roof of a wider audience.

I’m a writer, that’s what I do, be it novels, short stories, or here on the trusty ol’ website. I like to write, and I write what I like about. I like comics and have often written about them here, but now I shall do that there, if you know what I mean. There will still be comics posts here but the majority of my creative and editorial output on those matter will now reside at The Weekly Crisis. That means all of my non-comics info-dumps; movie and book reviews, state of the union addresses for my writing, all that fun stuff will still be here. I am not abandoning the ‘brown, not by any means. Just taking my shirt off to offer elsewhere. It’s going to be a hell of a 2010.

I’ve already got a fair few texts drafted up, and one piece is quite the scoop, so I look forward to posting links to them here. Yes, you’ll have to click one more time to hear my sweet dulcet tones discuss nerdisms and other four colour matters, but fret not, poor damsel, you’ll also get a few of my own special mock-up Weekly Crisis pic-links, so long as the real Crisis doesn’t sue me for them…heh, thanks lads.

I’ve been introduced over there (so I guess I’m posting my own welcome to introduce my introduction over there in post form…what‽) so go have a look through the magic of this link.

Stick around, here and there, and I hope you enjoy, I know I certainly will.

Posted on February 1st, 2010 by ryan
Filed under: Writing, comics