WISEGUY562's Blog

Let me start by saying that I love this site. It's almost always my first destination once I turn my computer on. It's the only site where I post any comments and read others'. I also check it on a regular basis through out the day for any news updates and to read the latests comments from the visitors. IMO this is one of the most if not the most versatile of all genre sites. It covers comics, books, video games, toys, has interesting miscellaneous articles,  trivia and most importantly it covers movies.

Here is the big "but". For the last couple of months or from about the time the site got its facelift it seems a lot of the news are not being reported or are being reported late. And not just late in the day but days later sometimes if at all.

I don't know if Jarrod or the powers that be only want to report a certain amount of articles per day, if maybe they have a certain criteria that must be met before reporting some things, maybe is too much work for one person (Jarrod) that seems to report most of the news or maybe it's not considered worthwhile to report every bit of news that pops up. I know that some of the articles on other sites are rumors, speculation or outright made up, but definitely not all.

Obviously I'm not a reporter, but why not report these bits. As long as you cite the source and put on a disclaimer if not confirmed by the proper sources. It could be a still from a movie set or a spy shot, a clip or trailer or the latest rumor. Even if all you do is link us to the site reporting it.

For example last week there were about 4 clips from the Hulk not reported, a still of the MinuteMen in Watchmen, stills from GI Joe and Death Race. Today I was told about updates from Green Arrow, He-Man and the MOTU, Johny Quest, Shazzam, Dark Shadows and a sequel to Halloween. As well as re-shoots for Where the Wild Things Are. These are some that are fresh in my mind and only to make my point. Hell you may be reporting on some of these later today for all I know.

I know Jarrod has a Rumors of the Week piece he does on Fridays. IMHO I think all the rumors deserve their own space and should be reported as such the minute they pop-up or you become aware of them, not wait until the end of the week and bunch them up together in one piece.

I mean no offense to anyone at Mania. Hopefully this will be taken as constructive criticism and not as insult to your work. I just hope and think you can do better. I know you can because you used to be better. I know you can't please all the people all the time, so if you think you've found the appropriate balance of news to report then I guess I'll just have to settle for the way things are because this isn't an ultimatum or a threat to abandon ship the way others have done. I'm sticking around.

Long live MANIA