Those fans of Strip for Me with very long memories and paper copies with low numbers may remember the short reviews that I used to run on the inside back cover of each issue.  The idea at the time, which I now recognise as hopelessly ambitious, was for these capsule reviews to build up into a sort of Halliwell’s or Maltin’s guide to comic books, a guide which did not, and still does not exist.  I kept it up for a good long while, and eventually had a few hundred of these reviews all typed up and waiting for a home when a single computer crash wiped out the file that I was keeping them in and I found myself unable to summon the energy to start the whole process over from scratch.  I thought it was gone for good and consigned it to my pile of abandoned projects, along with the great Dundonian novel I was always going to finish, and the autobiography of Jesus.

But that’s not the end of the story.

A few weeks ago, I found an earlier version of that lost file.  It didn’t contain half the reviews that I had completed, unfortunately, but there were still almost three hundred little chunks of outdated opinions in there.   It was odd to see what I was reading and enjoying a decade ago, but I found myself chuckling as often as cringing at my younger self’s words, so I figure, what the hell.

I have started a little blog to run them in, called I Read Your Comic.  It will be updated every day until I run out of reviews, and there’ll be a nice Amazon link to let you buy the books, if you care to.  After I run out… who knows?  Maybe I’ll keep it up. Until then you can run on over and see what I once thought. There’s already a couple of week’s worth of reviews for you to enjoy, so get on over there!