vashOG 2003

Kevin Miller from New Jersey arrived on eZabel in August 2003 and immediately staked out the forums as his territory — specifically the Book Club and Movies and Television sections. He started the "Comic Books" thread and turned it into a mini seminar on Marvel, geeking out about Jean Grey's Phoenix transformation in X-Men 2, recommending Neil Gaiman's 1602 miniseries, evangelizing Spiderman's Tangled Web as "one of the best Spiderman titles I ever read," and alerting everyone to the Trigun manga hitting US shelves. His posts had the enthusiastic detail of someone who actually visited comic book shops and had preorders waiting. He interacted most with thatdarngirl, fivezero, and malibu, debating everything from Ghostbusters scenes to The Princess Bride quotes, and he bonded with omegatweeter over a shared memory of a Zorro movie line neither of them could quite remember. Outside the geek forums, he weighed in on the Macking section's "how do you tell someone you like them" thread with disarming directness: "I just simply use my words and say I like slash love you." He declared Family Guy the best show ever, period — and with that, his 16 comments across two months were done.

eZabel Personality Type: INTP — "The Comic Shop Evangelist." Kevin brought a specific and infectious passion to eZabel's forums: he knew what he liked, he wanted everyone else to discover it too, and he wrote about comics and manga with the kind of detail that made you want to pick up an issue. Brief tenure, deep enthusiasm — the mark of a true fan.