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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Yes, I just had to put the question mark in the title. Why, you ask? I don’t even know where to start. Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch’s first arc in the Fantastic Four book is just… how do I say this… stupid. Not really Hitch’s fault. I’m not a fan of his style, but I think the art is more than OK. My beef is with Millar. I mean, the story didn’t really pick up until the third issue, and on the fourth, he introduces Anti-Galactus out of nowhere.

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I don’t usually go out and buy trades, may it be of recent years or of decades past. Well, unless they’re totally face-melting awesome like Iron Man: Doomquest!

I purchased it in Marvel Premier Classic format which totally feels so good to the touch. I felt so sophisticated while I was reading it. A hardbound graphic novel about Iron Man and Dr. Doom going back in time to the age of King Arthur, and subsequently going to the future to save Future Camelot with the help of Merlin and a reborn Arthur. Fantastic. Here are ten reasons why I say so (Sorry, no scans. I don’t want to risk ruining the book. Heh.):

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Baddie: This has nothing to do with Marvel’s First Family. I’m going to tell you about four new blogs from four of my awesome Internet friends. These blo–

DOOM: This post now belongs to DOOM! Doom hates the title of this post because it reminds Doom of the filthy Fantastic Four. Logically, it follows that Doom hates these new blogs as well, and Doom does not want you to read them! DOOM’S LOGIC IS SUPREME!

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