As bad as that omission is my main beef with the transformation is three-fold:

1) They chose NOT to import any old posts! WTF?????????

2) They chose NOT to import any of previous members account info. This means our post count & original join date are DELETED and reset to ZERO.

3) Now here is the biggest insult to injury. Now I could easily live with point #2 except for this:

If you have a forum account with OTHER Imaginova “communities” like for instance space.com or livescience.com you can stay logged in and participate on Newsarama’s new comic message boards. This means you can have a 2005 (or earlier) join date with 20,000+ post while posting on Newsarama. WTF?? Who thought THIS affront was a Good Idea?????????????

So as far as I’m concerned Imaginova ruined Newsarama. And although the new site LOOKS great it’s rapidly looking less and less like a Comic News site with the front page full of articles about non comic related movies like Kung Fu Panda. Whatever.

I will certainly miss Matt Brady, Vaneta Rogers and the gang but for now I’ll be spending more time with the competition over at Comic Book Resources.

I’ve always loved Wolverine, and have always been a huge X-Men fan. So in terms of the “big toys” that Marvel has, Wolverine is very close to the top of the list in terms of characters that I’ve always wanted to write.

The second half of that is that I was very surprised at how much I enjoyed writing the character. Reading a character and experiencing a character is one thing, but writing it is another experience entirely, and I’ve really, really enjoyed writing the character and having the fun of this guy who is, on the surface, very two dimensional, but in reality, and when handled properly, is very three dimensional.

Read it all here:

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=130712