1. How did you first discover the CCF? (If you came here from CBR, how did you first discover CBR?)

I believe I was looking for info about Claremont's X-Men, and a google search brought me to a post on CBR. I have no memory of the post/discussion, honestly. this would have been 15 years ago!

2. What made you decide to register and post for the first time? (Again, if you came here from CBR, tell us that)

I honestly don't recall, though I can tell you I was big on online forums and had no qualms about leaping right into a community that interested me.

3. Where else do you spend a significant amount of time online? Where would you rank The CCF in terms of sites/apps that consume the majority of your screen time?

1. CCF
2. Facebook
3. ebay

All my other online forum activity fell by the wayside ages ago. I only have time for the CCF these days.

4. What keeps you coming back?

These days, this is my online family.

5. Any suggestions/recommendations for how to make the CCF an even better community than it already is?

I wish we had more review threads that followed the community's suggested guidelines. Nothing wrong with the threads that don't, but I am constantly looking for more threads to promote on the front page and social media, and review threads that meet these criteria tend to draw a lot more visitors to the community.

I discovered CBR while trying to learn more about that Kingdom Come comic I had just discovered; I did a search on that recent Google thingie (so much better than Yahoo or AskJeeves) and it took me there. I can't recall if it was still the Kingdom Come message board or had already taken the name Comic Book Resources, but I know that I became a regular when the front page got links to a few theme songs from old superhero TV shows. I left the community when I moved back to Canada in early 2001 (after discovering, much to my dismay, that I had worked right across the street from Fly on the Wall for years!), came back eight months later and became a mod soon after (on the Books board).

Like many old timers here, I left CBR when the Classics board was wiped from existence. Jonah sold it soon after anyway.



I lurked at first, just happy to learn about who was who in Kingdom Come, but eventually wanted to interact with those interesting people and discuss comics. I found that it was hard as a newcomer to be accepted at first, but that posting neutral stuff like quizzes (there was a Quiz discussion board) was a good way to start. Then got into long discussions with people like OzBat! about evolution, and once you interact with some of the veterans, people start talking to you.

(My favourite memory at CBR was the masque organized on Halloween night in 2001; since there was no rule against multiple identities yet, we all registered under new names and spent the evening making nonsensical postsm trying to guess who each other was. I was quite proud to have been mistaken for Fenris all night, as he's a fellow I respected immensely.)



CCF is clearly up there, sharing the top spot with Youtube, Wikipedia and Netflix. It's the only social network kind of place (in the sense of "actually writing something for others to read") that I frequent; I only use my blog to put up artwork and Facebook to advertise the blogs.



The quality of our posters, of course! When I think of the sheer malevolent toxicity of a typical Youtube comment section, I bless the oasis of civility that is the CCF. And our members are remarkably knowledgeable! It's like shooting the breeze with a bunch of Alter Ego contributors without having to subscribe! (In the case of Cei-U it is literally true!!!)



No. But then I am very bad at anything resembling promotion and am naturally wary of changing things when they work. I lack initiative in that way.

1. How did you first discover the CCF? (If you came here from CBR, how did you first discover CBR?)
I discovered CBR, specifically the Comics Should Be Good page, in about 2005 or so when I got back into reading comics after a long hiatus, and was looking for online places where comics, etc. were discussed. I have to say, though, that although I was registered, I only occasionally lurked at the CBR boards and I don't think I ever posted anything there.
2. What made you decide to register and post for the first time? (Again, if you came here from CBR, tell us that)
Hmm. I registered here as soon as the site became operational, but didn't really decide to start posting until sometime in mid- or late 2016. That's mainly because several of the comic blogs I regularly frequented (mainly Bronze Age Babies), closed up shop at about that time, and I remembered that I was a member here.
3. Where else do you spend a significant amount of time online? Where would you rank The CCF in terms of sites/apps that consume the majority of your screen time?
Narrowing it down to interactive sites (as per Slam's response), then it's CCF, Facebook, Atomic Junk Shop, one Discord and one Slack group I belong to, and one or two old-fashioned comics/pop culture blogs I occasionally visit.
4. What keeps you coming back?
At least one interesting comics and/or pop culture topic being discussed here every day.
5. Any suggestions/recommendations for how to make the CCF an even better community than it already is?
Yes! More listicles and pop-up ads! Ha! Kidding.
Honestly, no, none that I can think of at this moment.

Thanks for the replies thus far! So far, everyone we've heard from is a CBR vet. We have a TON of regulars who have joined us in the almost seven years since The Great Migration. Where are you folks at?

Same - I came in just after the Pantheon stuff, and that big wedding.

tho I never went to Alvaros, I clearly remember that they HATED the KC/CBR boards

oh.. Robb (he and his wife Elissa run the place, and are both fun and fantastic folks) posts some of the *best* POV roller coaster videos on the internet. His videos often get used by many other places. . the Youtube channel is great too.

here's a video of me sitting next to him while he filmed Joker's Jinx at SFA back in 2018:
(at the 2 minute mark is when he flips the camera around and shows us riding)




and here's video from 2019 in Japan - riding Hakugei in the rain!
(I'm way back in the train, so not super visible except in brief glances. . but still, this was some wonderful memories, and it's So freaking funny - it started to rain the MOMENT we pulled out from the station, and poured the whole ride. . and STOPPED on the brake run):

on this one, rider view is first, with the POV at ~2:00