Why
the site has now moved to a new location
By Avi Green, fansite's creator, January 1, 2006
Hello to all you Hawkfans and DC Comics fans out there.
Some of you reaching this fansite may notice that it's on a new server
now. Well, there's some explanations for that, as well as my not having
updated it for awhile.
In the past three months, I'd become busier, as can happen to just
about anyone who's living in as blue-collar an existence as I do. I'd
become busier at work, with girl problems, and I'd even been taking the
time, along with the rest of my family, to visit my sister and her
husband, who've since had their first child together (yep, I'm an uncle
now).
That aside, while it's great to be an uncle, and I do hope I'll become
a husband to a loving woman someday, and a father myself as well,
another reason why I couldn't update the site when located in its
previous server was because...I could no longer access the server at
home. I'd uploaded some pictures to the site a few days before my
connection at home became inexplicably lost in August 2005. I could
reach the parent
company of the old server, but not the actual server itself, nor their
forum. I tried to reach it at work, on my brother-in-law's computer,
and he uses a different ISP than mine, on a computer at a hotel I was
once vacationing at...nothing. It was just gone. Kablooey. Finito. My
ISP confirmed that there was a problem, but was unable to help. It was
really sad, because here, while Hawkfan was up and flying high, I was
down. Talk about getting one's wings clipped. It felt almost like that
awful, AWFUL scene in
Identity Crisis
where Deathstroke cuts off
Carter's wings and lets him fall to the ground, and the overrated
writer who wrote that miniseries did little more than to insult poor
Carter and make him look like a cad (and yet, nothing could've been
worse than what Slade Wilson was shown doing to Black Canary and
Zatanna!).
So there I was, cut off from the server on which I'd first uploaded the
first comic book fansite I'd ever tried to build. Because I'd become
busy, I didn't have time to contemplate if I should make a move. But
eventually, as much time as it took, I was finally able to. I'd already
opened another account on this server about a year ago on which to host
a Marvel Comics
fansite I also own, that being
The Greatest Thing on Earth,
which is
mainly dedicated to Ben Grimm of the
Fantastic
Four. You could say that both
the Ben Grimm fansite and this one are the very first fansites I
thought to build. And since it's possible to open several subdomains on
one account, I
realized that this could be the perfect place - for both of them!
So I slowly began to work things out, so that both of the first
fansites I built, one for a DC Comics character and the other for a
Marvel Comics character, could be hosted on one account together. And
so far, it's working out perfectly.
I wish to thank the previous server I was on for their kind services,
and I do hope to be able to use their services again someday. And I
also wish to thank the current one, which is also a most magnificient
service, for what they currently offer, and I hope that I'll be able to
host my fansites on this one for a long time to come. There may still
be a few pictures missing that I haven't been able to upload yet, but
I'll try to get around to them in time.
With that, let me turn to another matter...
I'm aware now of the fact that DC Comics, as part of their "One Year
Later" story development, intends to change
Hawkman into
Hawkgirl with the 50th issue, and
to present Kendra Saunders as the leading star, at least for awhile.
In all due honesty, I'm not sure how I feel about it so far, since from
what what I can tell, it seems as if DC is trying to become - get this
- Marvel-lite: with the apparent intention to restart (?)
The Flash and
Wonder Woman with third volumes,
and possibly to "restore"
JLA
to the numbering first started when Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatties
relaunched the series in 1987 as
Justice
League for starters, it seems as though DC, out of nowhere,
decided to imitate some of Marvel's own steps in recent years, which
acutally served to hurt their image as much as their steps with
Captain America, Avengers, Spider-Man,
X-Men and countless other series/characters did.
I will say though that if they're going to think smartly and stick to a
more optimistic approach for their characters and series, then that's a
good thing, but at the same time: they did not need to stoop to sales
and publicity stunts in order to get an opinion from the audience on
all that, and it only served to sabotage the potential for some better
storylines in many of the books (for the record, if Brad Meltzer is
going to write
JLA, then sad
to
say, but no sale here, that's for sure. No matter how he writes it, the
way he wrote
Identity Crisis
pretty much disqualifies him from even the
list of writers whose works I'd read just for the characters and series
themselves. There's gotta be a limit, y'know?).
That said, I'm pleased to see that a writer as respected as Walt
Simonson, who did some of the best work on
The Mighty Thor during the Bronze
Age, is going to write
Hawkgirl.
And if I can find a logo for
Hawkgirl
to match that of
Hawkman,
I'll see if I can add it to the front page too! Now there's something
that could be cool to find.
For now, I would like to wish everyone visiting a Happy New Year, and
let's hope that DC - and Marvel - will put aside all those needless
sales stunts of theirs to make room for clean, fun storytelling.
Copyright 2006 Avi Green. All rights reserved.