Past Editorials Out Of My Head, Too! The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (That Would Cost Extra)

Look at the chaos Chris Lough and I have created!  We brought back one of the oldest fanfic sites out there and put new life into.  How do I know it was one of the oldest?  Well I know this because I was here basically at the beginning of it all.  Seeing how that really doesn't matter right now I'll skip the whole 2099UG history in this editorial and save it for future ones. Now where was I?  Oh yes, Chris Lough and I have brought back the good old Ghostworks and the 2099 Underground.  We have this nice fancy site now, first time we have had an operating one since...well this is the first time in six years.  Did I mention the group is six years old?  Anyway, we have this fancy site with all the stories housed on it finally with new ones coming out monthly like X-Men, Tensen, and Daredevil.  Besides getting this spiffy looking website the staff got a face lift with new additions like James Stovall (Null 2099UG), Chris Munn (Ghost Rider 2099UG), and Alex Cook.  To me, right now I'm the old fart of the group at age 18, that this might be the most talented bunch of writers this group has ever had.  Old faces are still lurking around like Jason C. Smith and Middy.  They have have helped enhance the group with giving us tales of Thor and Punisher when we least expected to see them ever again. So what more could the UG ask for?  Well, that my friend is simple, feedback!  We want feedback, we want reviews of our titles, we want to know that people are reading this stuff!  Heck, I'll start posting the reviews here in the editorial section.  In the end that is all we want is to hear the thoughts of the reader.  Getting a piece of e-mail concerning something you write is just the coolest thing, really it is.  Sounds geeky, huh?  But it is true, your feedback gets us jazzed up to go out and do better and do more.  If we were just writing the stories for ourselves they would be a lot more fanboyish and the quality would be very poor.  So now you know why the bulk of us go through the pain of trying to make quality reads and keep continuity straight, just for feedback.  So feed our egos! So in conclusion (I had to have a point somewhere...), by sending feedback it only increases the quality of the work here at the 2099UG.  So open those email programs and start sending those reviews of the 2099UG!  I can tell you right now that it will make someone's day!  Mike Oct. 19, 2001 PS- Send Chris Lough fan mail!  He needs to build up his ego! [My ego is quite built up,  thank you. But feedback certainly couldn't hurt. - Your iron-fisted, servant-chastising, maid-chasing AEiC]

If I Had A Dime For Every Time That Was Said...I Would Be Pretty Poor by Michael Shirley

If I Had A Dime I Would Save Marvel From Bankruptcy And Continue To Give The X-Books To The Flavors Of The Week by Chris Lough

Look at the chaos I single-handedly created! My little family of budding, winsome young hedge-writers continues to grow. The universe, my universe, continues to expand as it is filled with stories of the highest calibre (have you read X-Men 2099UG yet? Knocked me off my toes, I tell you what). New writers continue to fill the empty stalls in our stables, their manes thick and curly, their flanks well-muscled and tightly-wound. These are the finest breed of writers out there (and by out there I mean in here) and they are all poised, every single wretched animal among them, to bolt out the gate and win the national derby. Accolades! Fame! Recognition! But mark my words, you little pencil-pushers, if any of you slip up, it's the glue factory for you. I will use the sticky mulch that used to be you to fasten the horseshoes to the one who has replaced you. Loyalty to the group (me) is ever-important, you see. All is not well here. The thousand monkeys we have here tap-tap-tapping away at their thousand clanky typewriters are restless and irritated. They are producing the finest work known to mankind and yet the gazing public simply stares like a fawn in the washlights of an oncoming train. Do you not see, you fools?! You must move or we will HIT you silly buggers! Take that electronic email of yours by its hairy scrotum and give this train the fuel it needs to keep going. The writers, they are a restless lost, you see. You are all they have. A single sentence of feedback, just a sentence, would focus this restlessness like a laser beam and have them working back at the tills once more. These fellows, you see, make fine wine for the brain. But alas, no matter how much I belittle and abuse them, they won't stomp their peasant feet forever. Keep them going. For their sake. For your sake. For the sake of their children, whom I shall most certainly make into orphans if you do not write in. Truly, - Sir Christopher Edward Thadius III