Why Ask Why?
Why am I starting a newsletter? Well, I’m a white man, so it was either this or a podcast.
Frankly, as of writing this, I’m looking at probably a month of quarantine thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic (I only specify that because of the faint glimmer of hope that, someday, I’ll be able to mention quarantine without everybody immediately realizing what I’m talking about, and the perhaps even glimmer hope that somebody will be reading this that far into the future) with little work to fill my time. Other than the iffy money situation that brings with it, I’m honestly looking forward to having a little time at home to catch up on the massive pile of books and the several pages long list of TV shows I want to watch. More than that, though, I’m looking forward to a chance to write again.
For five years, from 2013 to the very end of 2018, I was a writer on the website Retcon Punch, where we analyzed weekly comic books, and I miss that outlet. So for the time being, this newsletter is going to be about all the media I’m using to get myself through this pandemic. It won’t just be a list of what I’m watching/reading/whatever, but hopefully a deeper look into what makes them special, why they’re relevant to me, and thus, hopefully, to you as well. There will also be a lot of unnecessary commas.
What will this newsletter be when quarantine lifts? We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, I suppose. By then, I hope there will be more than a few of you crossing it with me.