Tales from the Dork Side! It sounds like it could be interesting, doesn't it? Or maybe like it could be the same thing you've seen before on a dozen other websites. Well, I, Whitney, the author of these tales, am here to tell you that it will be both of those things. "Someone writing vaguely sarcastic reviews of recent media, likely with pop-cultural references! The internet has never seen it before," I said to Stephen when he asked me if I would write articles for him. "Except for all of the times that it has."
Now that I've established some sort of crack-wising tone, let me tell you who I am, and what I hope to do here. I, like many dorks, am a college-going twentysomething who lives in New York City most of the time, studies Japanese and Linguistics, dreams of actually possibly being employed with one of the skills this expensive liberal arts education has brought, doesn't get out of the house very much, and has breasts. You will often see these aspects of my existence reflected in my writing (Note: this does not mean boobie pictures. That's only on the paid version of glasseyecomics.com.)
My mission here is to bring news from the dork front: information, reviews, and opinions on anime, manga, and video games from the past, present, and possibly the future, if I can convince Stephen that an article plagiarized from Game Informer Magazine is my own. (He'll never know that I didn't actually go to E3. He'll never know.) While this site is geared to the American comic fan, if you are a comic book guy, you are likely a dork, and will have interest in the above issues. Please don't be sad that I called you a dork. You have to understand; I can smell my own kind. It's both a defensive ability, and useful in mating season, when the dorks flock to the convention halls, slithering across the dealer's tables, making uncomfortable eye contact and having halting, awkward conversations about costuming techniques until the Mike's Hard Lemonade starts to flow, and heated debates about the morality of scanlations lead to love... but I digress.
So, come with me, not into the dark side, but the side the side lit by the loving glow of computer screens and television monitors. It should feel a little like home.
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