SupaSchlock

When Your Humble Reviewer started this blog, he won­dered how long it would take until writ­ing posts felt like a grind.  This post caps the first full year of Schlockmania and thank­fully, it hasn’t got­ten dull for him yet.  There are some weeks where it is tough to get the writ­ing done but putting the end results out there is always reward­ing.  It is con­sis­tently inter­est­ing to see what will take off and become a pop­u­lar post — and there’s no short­age of new sub­jects and post­ing approaches to be tried out.

However, none of the above could be done in a vac­uum.  A lot of peo­ple have com­mented upon, encour­aged and sup­ported this lit­tle blog in a num­ber of ways and they deserve thanks.  The first thanks must go to you, the reader.  Knowing that peo­ple out there are pay­ing atten­tion and find­ing things to enjoy on the site makes the writ­ing worth­while.  It’s the fuel that this site runs on so please keep it com­ing — and com­ments are always welcome.

Thanks must also go to the many com­pa­nies who were kind enough to pro­vide the review copies that help Your Humble Reviewer to keep this site cur­rent.  In the DVD world, Schlockmania is grate­ful to Shout! Factory, VCI, Severin, Synapse and Drew Rosas for their gen­eros­ity.  In the area of music, Schlockmania tips its cap to FunkyTown Records, Harmless Records and Esoteric Recordings.  In the area of print pub­li­ca­tions, many thanks to Fangoria for allow­ing the site to sam­ple its cur­rent style.

And finally, some peo­ple whose sup­port and encour­age­ment were absolutely cru­cial to the site’s exis­tence deserve their own round of applause.  To Jadan Duffin, who designed the site, and Sri Rao, who hosts it, thanks for giv­ing Your Humble Reviewer an online soap­box.  Rao and Neil Butler encour­aged Your Humble Reviewer to get a blog going so he’ll always be grate­ful pro­vid­ing the gen­tle prompt­ing that inspired this site.  Chris Poggiali was kind enough to give the site its first pro­mo­tional push on his site so he is obvi­ously a schlock scholar and a gen­tle­man (visit his site!).

If you’ve been kind enough to read Schlockmania thus far, please con­tinue to do so.  Your Humble Reviewer will do his best to keep things inter­est­ing in Year Two.