One for the "Ages"

So yes, this is the obligatory “Welcome to my Blog” post.  I’ll try to be brief and keep to the more interesting parts of the “first blog entry”.  So for starters; the name.

I’m a massive consumer of information.  When I find a topic that I’m interest in, I become a ravenous beast and start to dig for everything I can find on the topic.  So way back in 1998, I became armed with the internet for the first time and I realized there was an entire internet presence for Transformers.  So I picked apart everything I could find.  I dug through Benson Yee’s site and DVD’s site.  I found the comic archive and just started reading issue after issue and I started to get caught up on the then current Beast Wars series.

What I realized was that there were many different eras of Transformers, sometimes with conflicting histories.  I decided I wanted to make a web presence based around reconciling this issue.  I chose the name for my site and called it “Ages of Cybertron”.  While the site didn’t last, the title has always stuck with me.  I feel it’s even more fitting now that there are many distinct eras and continuities.  So a part of this blog is going to be trying to do what the original site was supposed to do.  That is, dig into the different ages and find out what defines them, what makes them similar and what just doesn’t make sense.

While this will make up a good deal of the content, it will not be all that you see.  I plan to delve into many different areas of fiction.  Another favorite show of mine when I was growing up was Connections with James Burke.  In the series, our host would show the linking paths between two seemingly disconnected objects, people or events.  That’s another way I see this blog.  Digging behind the stories and finding the links between them.

Now, don’t hold me to that; sometimes it’s just going to be reviews.  But my hope is to make this blog thoughtful and interesting and hopefully, (though not likely) funny at times.