I’ve decided to leave the HU. My thanks to Noah, always a patient and generous host and the only man who could get me to look straight on at a page drawn by Harry G. Peter. I will also miss Kinukitty and her reviews of those comics about the skinny fellows who like to hang out together. Her jokes made me laugh, which is a rare thing.
The good news is that Wiki Trek, my personal adventure in OCD, will no longer drape itself over your long-suffering screens. The bad news is that I must sacrifice exposure to treasures of discourse that have brightened my life: the roly-poly prose of stately fangirls, the inane yipping of outraged fanboys, the plaintive truculence of the man who can’t draw necks (though he’s learning Photoshop), and the sheer stupidity of the clod who came stumbling along five months after the Watchmen movie to tell Noah and me we were Bolsheviks because we didn’t like that three-story cloud of stink. Wherever you are, sir, I sincerely hope you go fuck yourself — for you are the true voice of the Internet.
I'm having some trouble typing because my eyes are tearing up. We've been very lucky to have you Tom. Whether you were writing about comics, Sarah Palin, Star Trek, or the Godfather, you always made me laugh, and think too. All the best Tom. Thank you for blogging here.
Tom, I am very, very sorry to see you go. I have not often commented, because I tend not to, but I have often read and enjoyed your posts, and I also can't help hoping you might find your way back here at some point.
And, the voice of the Internet? So true. So very true.
I'm sorry you're leaving.
Can't you just finish the Star Trek posts—you can't leave all of America hanging like that. It ain't right.
I saw Trekkies 2 for the first time today. It was scary. Why do we legitamize these things?
For Christ's sake, it's spelled "legitimize." To the rest of you, thanks.
Eric b. — if you really want to see the rest of that stuff I can email you the Word file with the stuff I hadn't posted. Just let Noah know and he can pass on your email address.
Too bad, you're an excellent writer.
Whoops, I'm late, but my excuse is that I've been away on vacation. I'll add my voice to the lamentations over Tom's departure; his writing is always fun to read, even when covering topics I might not be enthusiastic about. I especially liked the Oliphant posts, and tried to add to them in my own glory-stealing way. But it's all good stuff, and you'll be much missed. Don't be a stranger!
No matter how good his writing was I just couldn't work up enough excitement about Star Trek to do more than skim those posts but I always looked forward to Tom's other writing.
I'll miss reading ya.
-David Alex