Year 4

Yep, Siskoid's Blog of Geekery is celebrating its 4th anniversary today. 1461 days, 3085 posts, and thousands of comments (thanks all), and I've no wish to stop anytime soon.

Year 4 Highlights
-I suppose the biggest thing is the end of daily Star Trek reviews. The feature started at the same time as the blog as a way to make sure I blogged every day (I shouldn't have worried), and outlasted the various television series by two years. 50 days ago, I got through all the comics and am now doing new IDW issues or, as time permits, novels only from time to time. I'm glad for the break, honestly.
-Taking the daily slot is Reign of the Supermen, which attempts to give you a different version of Superman every day, and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I have absolutely no doubt that I won't run out of Supermen before Year 5 closes out.
-What If? did indeed become the regular Saturday feature, replacing Rom Spaceknight, and I've already gone through all of the original series and have started on the second. Other new and more recent features include examinations of Dial H's throwaway characters, the return of Amalgamondays in which DC and Marvel characters duke it out, and a sudden obsession with Battle Shovels (and shovel battles). Retro-Comics, which looks at contemporary comics done up in an older style, need me to do follow-ups; I haven't abandoned them.
-Though I've neglected the role-playing side of things lately, Year 4 had plenty to offer, both through generic articles, and thanks to my running three different games over the course of the last 12 months - Doctor Who, Savage Worlds/Evernight, and DC Adventures.
-According to Google Analytics, my daily hit count went up dramatically this year, from the low 300s to the low 400s, much of it thanks to traffic going to a post entitled "Who Is River Song?". I understand a lot of Doctor Who viewers are asking or trying to answer that question, and the comments are still growing. 57 (and counting?) is a personal best, well ahead of the thirtysomething that is the previous record.
-Not to say that the series of Sexiest Women in SF postings didn't up the hit count, because it did. Those are the kinds of posts that keep on giving. For example, I still get at least a dozen hits a day about the Topless She-Hulk FF story I reviewed in 2008.

What's Next?
-Reign is still in its relative infancy, so that's certainly going to play a huge role at the Blog of Geekery for the next year at least.
-What If? has enough issues to carry us through Year 5 as well, though format changes in the book during the 90s might make me drop out before the end of 2011. I plan on sticking it out, but you never know.
-Otherwise, I pledge to do more of the features you liked and fewer of those you didn't. It's always hard to gauge what new obsession I'll fall prey to over the course of an entire year (shovels? really?), but you'll know when it happens.

So thanks again for stopping by on occasion during the last four years, and here's to a productive Year 5! Starts tomorrow!