A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO MY FINAL POST...

...I couldn't pull it together! I started writing it, more than once. I had the thoughts in my head, but I couldn't get them out in a coherent fashion. I think partly it was simply because I didn't want to admit to myself that I was bringing this thing to an end. But also, I think on some level it was because I really and truly wasn't ready to stop. Like I said last month, I still have the desire and interest to do this. It's just been hard to find the will to do it.

Which got me thinking: maybe it's not that I'm burnt out on blogging. I absolutely still want to blog. Maybe I'm just burnt out on the grind of writing about long runs, one issue at a time. In fact, I think I'm burnt out on writing about short runs too, in the more freewheeling format I have employed on occasion for mini-series, one shots, etc.

So maybe what I really need is not to retire from blogging entirely, but rather to change my format and schedule. To that end, I've been thinking. When I first started this site, it was absolutely primarily intended to discuss comic books. But there was also other stuff. Occasional posts about Marvel movies or various TV shows or even once or twice, a novel. All that stuff fell by the wayside pretty quickly as I decided to focus entirely on comics, but it was there originally.

So now I'm thinking that maybe I get back to posting about whatever. An occasional comic, something I've watched, something else I've read, and so forth. And on a less demanding schedule than once a week. Right now, I'm imagining something like once a month or every few weeks. Heck, I don't even think the schedule would be set in stone. The posts would likely be longer, and in more of a "catch-all" vein -- rather than each post being about a single subject, it would be a number of things on my mind at that particular moment.

Now -- I think (or perhaps I should say that I know) a lot of people came here for the comic book stuff. After all, that was, as I said, this site's ultimate raison d'etre once I settled into my groove. So to those who aren't interested in sticking around to see where we go from here, I understand completely. But if you've come to like my writing over these past twelve or so years, then I hope you'll at least stick around to give the new format a chance.

And to be sure, there will always be comic book (or comic book adjacent) content here. Just not the way it used to be. So let's give it a try, shall we? A bold new era for "Not A Hoax" begins next week, and I hope you'll join me for it!