This morning, The Atomic Junk Shop hit two milestones: post number 1000 and comment number 10,000.
Post #1000 is “Fox, Lee, Kirby: Writing in the Silver Age” by Fraser Sherman,who made the transition from commenter to contributor in December 2017. Congrats, Fraser! Comment #10,000 (not counting spam and linkbacks that were deleted) was from our own Greg Hatcher on the Atomic Roundtable post about all-time greatest movie (whatevers).
We’re all really proud of the work we’ve done here over the last 4 years and change, but I have to single out two of our founders as contributors to our success: the Gregs. Greg Burgas has been an absolute machine, putting up far more posts than anyone else, multiple posts every week, as well as partnering with Travis Pelkie on the “Flipping Through Previews” series. Greg Hatcher, even despite recent medical concerns, puts up a column every week like clockwork, and many of them are among the most popular we’ve run. Thanks, Greg & Greg!
Since we started up in October of 2016, we’ve carved out a niche for ourselves in looking at pop culture, covering some of the latest-and-greatest, but especially the best from across the past century, sometimes stopping to reflect on what our entertainment says about ourselves as people and a society, and we intend to continue this mix of unabashed fanboy adoration with an occasional critical eye. We hope you’ll continue to enjoy our work.
Onward!
So, we average at 10 comments per post.
Congratulations Fraser, Congrats all!
Thanks! Congrats shared all around!
My blushes. Today was a shitty medical day, as it happens, so this was unexpectedly cheering.
Hope it all gets better, Greg.
Aw, thanks. It helps when you can re-post old stuff! I wish I could write more things for the blog – I really dig it, and I wish I had more time. Here’s to 1000 more posts!
My trouble is everyone seems to remember my old stuff according to the comments, which makes me reluctant. But there are a few from the old stand I have in my pocket so I’ll be ready for the next medical panic.
Hi Greg H.,
Hope YouĀ“re getting back on Your feet quickly. I just wanted to let You know that i enjoy Your posts immensely. I encountered Your writing at the old site around 2013. That christmas I went down the rabbit hole and read everything of Yours which led to a lot of amazon and ebay purchases that today IĀ“m still working my way through.
I do remember most of Your old stuff as well but I guess most of us might probably give You a pass for any repostings due to the circumstances:-)
Get healthy again!
Re: “That christmas I went down the rabbit hole and read everything of Yours which led to a lot of amazon and ebay purchases that today IĀ“m still working my way through.” Yep. We have a term for that (coined by yours truly): the Hatcher Effect.
I don’t think I was paying enough attention to CBR at the time to read them, so it’s all new to me.
Congrats! Here’s to a 1,000 more posts.
And more comments as well, which it seems there’s a minimum character limit to post a comment? Maybe there’d be more if that wasn’t the case. Just an idea.
A lot of spammer bots post one-word comments, and we donāt want that. We also like to encourage a little more discussion; the goal is not the number of comments, but the quality. Comments like āI agreeā or ānopeā add nothing.
That said, I went ahead and dropped the minimum from 50 characters to 25. (The plug-in recommends 60.)
Y’know, I’ve been wondering about that for a long time.
Thanks, Jim!