Face Rockery has reached its 1 year mark. Who would’ve thunk it? I certainly didn’t. I gave myself 3 months tops on maintaining a niche blog featuring comic books and pop culture. I managed to do it for a whole year. This means I may have a future in niche blogging and that gives me the happies. Who knows, I may revisit comics niche blogging someday when… what? Oh. Right. Didn’t I tell you? No? OK. I’m closing Face Rockery indefinitely.

You’d think after celebrating 1 year of rocking faces, I’d be inspired to do better in the next year, right? Thing is, I feel this is a good time to quit and be happy with what I’ve accomplished (LOL What?!) in this blog. I managed to hone my blogging craft (another LOL) and I also met some new people. I’m particularly awesomed by the fact that this blog is raking in more site traffic than Baddieverse, which is supposed to be my “flagship” blog. Crazy. Also, regularly writing mostly full-length articles for 2 blogs takes up a lot of time and effort, and I have a few other things that I want to do that will require a lot of my time and effort. Something’s gotta give.

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I never thought I’d cheer for the X-Men while they’re taking down a group of normal human thugs. Sometimes, we need to be reminded that the X-Men are a group of well-trained soldiers with super frickin’ powers! Kudos to John Cassaday for the cheer-worthy X-attack!

*** Anti-terrorist image from Astonishing X-Men #2.

After Justice League Unlimited, I didn’t think I’d enjoy another comic book animated series again. Come to think of it, the only comic book animated TV series I really enjoyed were the 90’s X-Men series, Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution, and Justice League Unlimited. So it came as a surprise when I watched the first season of The Spectacular Spider-Man and loved it.

The first couple of episodes felt like The Batman all over again. I hated that show. It was too anime-ish for me, and I have no love for anime. Call me a hater, but that’s the way it is. But the animation style grew on me as the series progressed.

By the middle of the season, I realized that it’s not the usual comic book animated TV series starring Spider-Man. Actually, it’s not the usual comic book animated TV series, period. Most of the characters, whether they’re Spider-friend or Spider-foe, are recurring characters. That means you get to see several developments in each of the characters and in the complex relationships between several of the main cast.

This series is probably the most faithful reincarnation of Spider-lore in TV and in movies. It also has the most faithful Peter Parker iteration I’ve seen. I don’t understand why he has to have a mole under his left eye, but other than that, I’d say he’s the Peter Parkeriest Peter Parker ever.

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