Woo-hoo! Bold! Italics! Underline! Strikeout!

And whole bunches of stuff I'll probably never use.

Thanks, fellas. I'm still feeling my way around the new house.

Hello everyone. I'm icctrombone just like in Cbr. I'm 53 and have been reading since around the late 60's . I remember my big brother bringing me a bunch of Avengers books from around #45-60 when I was sick with the flu.  The Avengers was and is my favorite title. I first starting using forums in the Dc message board and I joined Cbr in 2004. Mostly posting in the Classic forum because I don't buy many new books anymore. I also posted in the community boards but really only to the Comic Cover Contest. I also enjoy the 12 days of Classic Christmas.

yay Laura!  Welcome to the secession!

I don't think I ever formally introduced myself over on the CBR forums -- mostly lurked for a number of years, with sporadic bursts of posting here and there. I had been meaning to become more active over there when they shut things down, so I'm glad to see the forum surviving over here. Props to Shaxper for putting this together -- y'all are fast!

I'm a 30-something living in the Washington D.C. area (my avatar should be a clue) with my wife and children. My background is in engineering, but I currently work in the field of intellectual property. I chose the name Randle-El because I used to joke with friends that Antwaan Randle El, former wide receiver for the Washington Redskins, was really Randle-El, distant cousin to Kal-El of Krypton.

I have enjoyed comics off and on for most of my life. I read comics as a kid, mostly Marvel superhero stuff, but I never amassed a huge collection, since it was not something my parents deemed worthy of spending a lot of money on. I would pick up a few issues at a drug store or 7-Eleven, read them, and then swap with friends for other issues. As a result, I don't think I ever owned more than 50 issues or so back then. Comics fell off my radar for a while, though I still enjoyed the characters through video games, TV, or movies. I got back into things a few years ago after I bought my first house. I was moving stuff I had stored in my parents' garage, and in the process I rediscovered my box of old comics. Now as an adult with disposable income, I was determined to find out how the heck all those stories ended that I had started as a kid but never completed!

I still don't have a huge collection (less than a dozen short boxes and a few shelves worth of trades), and I am not nearly as well read as some others on this forum. I joined the CBR classics forum because of the many knowledgeable people who posted regularly, and also because it seemed like one of the few places on the Web where people were mostly civil. Glad to see the tradition continuing here.

Well, this seems likes comfy place. An ark on Ararat after the flood, or rather nice little bunker following the Great Disaster.

My hats off to our "Noah" Shaxper for gathering the gang after the smiting.

My once and future name is benday-dot. It seemed like a good idea at the time back in 2006 when I strolled in upon that other now distant shore. It seemed to evoke the classic, the artifact of the analog, the age when comics looked, smelled and breathed differently. It seemed to colour a whole aesthetic of funny book rather dear to me.

In "real" life I answer to neither ben nor day nor dot, though I suppose I wouldn't object to any of those. But typically I go by Craig.

My comic book coming of age took place around 1972-1975 and I stuck with the whole astounding world of whacked-up newsprint until sometime in the early 80's. I bowed out around when Frank Miller and his Dark Knight took to the scene. Nothing against that book, I just kind of moved on as people do.

I came back upon the scene in the mid-2000's. I recall it was Steve Gerber who brought me back, but it was definitely Jack "King" Kirby who kept me around.

I have more comics than I know what to do with, though not nearly so many as others around here can attest to. I don't buy so much any more, but as long as there exists a world where the likes of Kirby, Ditko, Toth, Everett, Wood, Colan and Kubert provide pages to seduce the soul I suspect I'll always find myself within handy reach of a comic book.

'tis a fine thing to be around old friends again.

I'm Greg, I've been hanging around CBR for years and am very fond of the many friends I've made there. I was a moderator there for a while and believe me, nothing cures you of hanging around message boards like being a moderator. Classics was one of the very few places on the CBR boards where I felt like I could just hang out and shoot the breeze without having to have my moderator hat on.

It did me some good because after reading a post where I rhapsodized about Steve Gerber's DEFENDERS working the outcast angle way better than Claremont's X-MEN did, Brian Cronin approached me to write a weekly thing for the CBR blog, which I've been doing for... criminy, must be something like eight or nine years now. So I rarely posted on Classics because most of what I'd say got channeled into columns instead, the reason being I'm a terrible mercenary and would just as soon get paid for carrying on about comics I like if someone's fool enough to offer. But I loved the board and would always check in, and I'm glad it's found a home here; good on shaxper for getting it together so quickly, though I feel bad about the initial bad feelings, it's like seeing friends fight, because honestly I don't think Jonah was wrong. I've felt for many years now that overall the CBR boards badly needed a shakeup and a purge from on high, the growing toxicity of the place was something Cei-U and I had talked about for years and it's the reason I walked away from being a mod. I really think Classics landing here is a better outcome and will bring more new blood in than if it had stayed at CBR.

Apart from internet stuff, I teach cartooning and writing as part of an afterschool arts program for middle-school kids, and many of those adventures are chronicled here. And lately I've been writing a lot of stories for Airship27, a pulp-revival house, because I love pulp fiction and trashy adventure paperbacks as much as I do comics from the 1970s. If you're a Bronze Age baby like me, the two are kind of inseparable.

And finally, I'm married to Julie, who not only tolerates all these geeky things but actually encourages and embraces them. Trust me when I tell you, fellas, when you find a lady who does that, you MARRY her.

Hi guys. CBR was getttin' way too real for me (the just closed Rita's), so here I am. I'm still Shawn Hopkins, a former journalist who makes his living blogging in the hills of Eastern Kentucky.

I've been collecting comics for more than 30 years now. I like both old and new, indie and mainstream. I have a special fondness for Archie and other teen comics, and humor comics in general.

The classics board was my favorite board at the old CBR, so I just wanted to say thanks for creating a place for us.