We put out the call, the call for bloggers – and you assembled wonderfully. And when it was time, we engaged the machine, we woke the world – and guest posts have been running ever since. I’ve been using an Avengers analogy throughout, from Jonathan Hickman’s recent run which I’ve enjoyed so much. It goes kind of like this.
Maybe we’re talking about blogging instead of the end of the world, but otherwise the analogy has held strong. In fact, it’s pretty amazing.
So as you can see above, Captain America and Iron Man built a literal “Avengers Machine,” a roster-keeper and planning device. In the analogy, that makes it the blog – Comparative Geeks itself. Now, you can find me on this blog actually excited for the idea of the machine coming back after the Infinity event – they led issues with an image of the machine and which Avengers would be showing up. Instead, this happened the next issue.
Much like for us – the machine served its purpose. It got us through the arrival of the Geek Baby, and many weeks of missed sleep and learning how to parent. Anyway, I guess I just equated that to an intergalactic war – works for me. Steve goes on with some minutiae in the comic, but Tony stops him…
That’s where we’re at with Comparative Geeks. We may not be able to blog as constantly and consistently as we’ve been used to – we just don’t know. But that doesn’t mean that the blog shouldn’t keep going strong.
We’ve had some fantastic guest posts, and many bloggers who have now written quite a few posts. You can find all of them now on the sidebar on our Authors page. And they have more ideas, more desire to write. And we have more need for writing.
So will we keep having posts here? Yes we will! Monday through Friday, post-a-day. Will they all be by Holly and I? No they will not. Does that make the other posts guest posts? Nope. At this point, I think that makes them contributors. And it means now, interactions with these bloggers is kind of like this:
Originally used this on https://comparativegeeks.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/in-other-news-thor-is-a-woman-now/
Interested in writing for Comparative Geeks? I know we had a number of offers before, thoughts on series, folks who were busy in the short term but maybe not the long term. Start the conversation in the comments below!
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Yay, I’m an avenger, I mean a contributor! I love the analogies; so clever 🙂 Now I want an alias – a not so secret identity…I just want a cool title! The Penned Archer…hmm, I’ll think on it! In all seriousness though, it’s exciting. It’s great to be on board.
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And thank you so much for being so! We said assemble and you showed up in force. Anyone wanting to see proof has five Daredevil reviews and a couple of Supernatural posts and a Flash review to look at 😀
I look forward to seeing what’s next 🙂
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I’m looking forward to it too. The author page looks great. The Summer of Sandman has been fun so far, and I’m trying to catch up on that. I’m actually reading four things at once, which is probably a little ambitious! Anyway – I’ll send ideas your way for future posts 😀
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I’m reading at least that much at once, and none of it quickly or effectively! Likely to finish the first volume of Sandman next…
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Seems like we’re on the same page! I’m trying to make Sandman a priority because I want to get involved 😀
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So, I am not sure what else to do except give this a wordpress like and leave a comment.
So, have a comment 🙂
The Avengers analogy has been good. It will work for awhile longer, I think.
And yes. We need to get. BIGGER.
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Bigger projects need bigger responses 🙂
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I’m willing to try, but I am not sure what I would be able to write on that others’ are much more well-versed in 🙂
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That’s never stopped me 😉
One thing that happens often on Comparative Geeks is talking about more than one thing at once… It’s in the name 😉 if you feel like there’s a topic where talking about one thing you can’t do better than someone else… Once you add the perspective of something entirely different, it’s all you 🙂 Things like our Science Fiction Today, Science Fiction and Religion, and LitFlix posts are a lot like that. Also, there’s like an infinite amount of material available for Character Studies… Always more characters!
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OK, I am up for a challenge like this 😀
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Sweet!
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I feel so awesome right now. 😉
I don’t have anything in mind at this exact moment, but I am trying to get some guest posts prepped this summer for back-to-school in the fall. I’ll give you a holler with ideas soonish.
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We have time – posts and post ideas are already coming in 🙂
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