Welcome to Crushing Krisis, previously the longest continuously-running blog in Philadelphia and now the newest oldest blog in New Zealand. I launched it on August 26, 2000.
Crushing Krisis (CK, for short) found its name because my internet handle has always been “Krisis,” and I started blogging to record all the things I was crushing on (or that were crushing me). CK was launched on Blogger and has run on WordPress since 2006.
Today, CK is anchored around a vast set of comic collecting guides which I publish as permanent pages rather than dated posts. However, the front page of the blog still features occasional musings on life as an immigrant, parenting, drag, and popular music, among other topics. Before comics took over as the primary topic, I often blogged about my experiences as a DIY musician and songwriter, including highlighting other artists in the Philly music scene.
My music has been a feature of CK even before I was actively gigging – my Trio podcast might have been the first singer-songwriter podcast feature on the internet. I gave a brief history of my music on CK.
I’m in my third decade of blogging, so there’s a lot of CK here for you to read. You could take a short cut and read my author bio, or perhaps go on a random dive into the archive, but that’s a daunting journey. If you are interested in the personal side of my blogging rather than the comics guides, I tagged my favorite posts from each year of the first decade: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5,Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9, Year 10, and Year 11.
I owe many thanks to the following sponsors on Patreon, who pay for the costs to host and serve CK.
Hi,
Thank you so much for your hard work. I especially liked the guide to Chris Claremont’s X Men run. It was a great read and very helpful.
Take care.
Steve
great job with the site. just read your blog on making the roger stern run on Dr. Strange into an omnibus :-). definitely quite agree. look fwd to reading more of your omnibus recommendations :-). actually seems like the best thing to do lately is reread a lot of those classic runs from the 80’s (just reread the Stern run on Dr. Strange), e.g., mantlo on cloak and dagger ls and first series, simonson on thor; j.m. dematteis and gruenwald on captain america; second michelinie and layton run on iron man, etc. Just finished up those runs and now probably on to Mantlo’s rom and micronauts, Roy/Dann Thomas’ run on Dr. Strange vol. 3, Byrne FF omnibus vol. 1 and Byrne non-FF/X-men omnibus vol. 1, etc. :-). although of course guess some runs are perhaps better left not reread :-) (e.g., Nicieza run on New Warriors – honestly couldn’t get past a few issues before it was just too much melodrama; and nocent run on dd was just way, way, way too political during the reread :-)).
thanks again,
Clint