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I don't like the 2010s. Maybe it's because I'm old and crotchety, and look fondly with nostalgia at my formative years. Maybe it's because the 2010s suck and the 80s didn't. I tend to think it's the latter. But if I had to nail down a very specify why I think the 80s were better, it would have to be because of one thing, and one thing only: attitude. 

It never fails. 

I had a big, elaborate plan about how I wasn't going to be here anymore. How I was going to post and post and suddenly post my way into fantabulous riches and independent wealth. And well...

That didn't work out. 

I haven’t slept for seven days.

Seven days.

I’m supposed to write about a man that no one remembers, that no one really knew. Someone we celebrate for having helped destroy the indigenous religion of a civilization, in the name of Jesus Christ. Saint Patrick.

One year ago, this week, I pushed this picture to the internet, and Hard Hobbit to Break was born. 

I really didn't know what I was doing for about a month or so. I knew I wanted to have the story of Spamwise Hamgee, Kablooey the Pink, and Bill the Pony, but I dicked around with the 4-panel Lessons from the Red Book and some Dilbert-esque work-related comics, and a side-comic I want to do someday: Thrust and Parry, about anthomorphic swords. 

Finally, the origin story came, and our team came to LA... in a most inauspicious manner.

@gawainthestout Apparently I owe you an apology, but you're still a twatwaffle and I will bury you in a shallow grave with @3liza

— Warren Ellis (@warrenellis) June 15, 2012

TL;DR: Twitter is awesome. Yes, yes, I know. Everyone in the world already knows this already. Shut up and let me pontificate.

It took me several years to start using Twitter. For as much as I love technology and the like, I'm very much a mid-to-late adopter on things I can't find a practical purpose to, and as a writer who struggles with "wordiness," a 140-character-limit text broadcaster had little no practicality whatsoever for me. In the last 9 months or so, though, I've seen just what a powerful tool Twitter can be. And it all started when critically acclaimed cartoonist Warren Ellis called me a Twatwaffle. I don't know what a Twatwaffle is, but I know what twats are, and what waffles are, and the combination is fantastic.