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A few years ago I was in the midst of my first Mutants and Mastermind's game and started getting into comics. It started out with a few graphic novels as I worked my way through Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. I made the leap to stand alone comics when DC put out their 52 series. I was drawn in to the series by the promise of an entire year where I didn't have to know what was going on in any other comics and could just read that one comic. It of course didn't stay there. As the guys at the gaming table said, it was my gateway drug.

Hi. My name is Bill and I like to make copies of files. (Hi Bill!)

Here is my confession. I have natural tendency towards being a pack rat. With my wife's help I've managed to fight these natural urges over the years, removing much of the clutter around the house. (Although my collection of Action figures is probably too big) The contents of my hard drive on the other hand is a different matter. At work, they were nice enough to let me purchase a Terabyte External Hard Drive for holding all of my work related files since I've collected more than my fair share of files over 9 years there. For personal use I picked up a classic ipod with 120 gig of storage. It gives me the advantage of a music and picture player along with the storage I need to collect all of my stuff.... and even then it wasn't quite enough.

Way back when, there was a webcomic called Queen of Wands. The titular character was a girl named Kestrel who lived in Denver and tried to figure out who she was. One of the people she met was a girl named Angela who looked like she was 12 and worked with Kestrel in the toystore. Angela fell in love with Kestrel but the sentiment wasn't returned. The comic ended when the Queen of Wands moved on with her life (and got hit by a car in a completely different comic).

I read comic books for superhero stories. I read web comics for Modern Fantasy. There are exceptions to both rules but Swiftriver Comics falls squarely in the latter category. It follows the story of Bowie Swiftriver (gotta love the hippie name) who as of the beginning of the comic is an about-to-retire thief. For whatever reason Bowie has started seeing 'beneath the surface' of the world to the fantasy beneath.