We’re up, we’re running, and it is awesome! Welcome to the debut of Josh Shoberg (dot) com! In all honesty this thing went through about 3 revamps, none of which actually saw the light of day ever until I put this thing together. Because I got sidetracked by things like life in general, my day job, my family, and a spontaneous hernia surgery where my insides attempted an old-timey prison break tunneling their way through my abdomen wall, you’ll see a few more blank pages and Coming Soon images than I was hoping to slap you in the face with. No wait, I ended a sentence with a preposition. A few more of those than with I was hoping to slap you in the face. My inner Grammar Nazi is placated. Anyway, that’s why this entire site is done on a “Whenever I Can” schedule. I am going to attempt to create order from the chaos on as regular a basis as I can with the kind of schedule I have, but that’s just sometimes asking a lot.
Here’s what I’ve got in store for you:
There are 5 blogs:
- The Real Life Adventures of Josh – I have a lot of strange stories about things that have happened to me. You will be bombarded with them here.
- The Fake World of Real Sports – We take sports films and analyse what would happen in the real world if the events in the film took place during actual sporting events using period-specific rules.
- The Project Blog – I work on a lot of different things at various times. This is a way to keep track of my progress on some of the ones big enough to merit their own pages. This is broken down into Completed and In Progress.
- Various Rants and Such – Sometimes I just vent about things or whatever. It’ll go there.
- Josh Reviews Stuff – There aren’t actually any entries in this just yet, though one for Assassin’s Creed 3 will be coming soon.
There are currently 4 comics:
- The Adventures of Kyle and Josh – Contains the archive of the 4-issue run with Steff Krus at the helm.
- Worst Summer Ever – Currently posted page 51, new to the comic since the last site went down (thank you, non-descript hacker douchebag!) and there will be some pages trickling in here and there as the artist, Dan Barton, finds time to do more.
- Old School Game Review – Currently not updating but contains the 11 comics that went with classic video game reviews from an old video game selling site I attempted. This will be updated at some point as I have more reviews and comic scripts written, just no one to illustrate them.
- Random Filler Theater – A catch-all for other stuff I’ve done or other people did as a collaboration with me, fan comics, things like that. You’ll start seeing a lot of these trickle in as I dig up old stuff on my computer that in all honestly would probably be best left to die in a field somewhere.
Then there are other sections:
- About – This is about me, the site, an FAQ section (one of the unplanned Coming Soon images you’ll see), et cetera.
- Artwork – Photoshop, pencil drawings, character sketches, other random stuff.
- Figures – Dedicated to my random hobby of repainting action figures.
- Buy Stuff – Eventually there will be a store where you can get merchandise like shirts and books and all kinds of other stuff.
- Help Wanted – I always have more projects than I can handle on my own so if you want to help me, I’m more than willing to take it.
- Other Stuff – Sometimes I don’t really know how to classify things. That’s where weird stuff will eventually go.
Ready? Good. Away we go!
This is really cool, Josh. What a wonderful way to organize your thoughts and ideas. Can’t wait for more WSE!