Let's shed some light! YEAH!
Comic Vine is a sister site of GameSpot, which is owned by CBS Interactive. At one time, GMan and myself were employees of WhiskeyMedia (I was freelance during my 4 year run with Whiskey, then was hired full time after CBS Interactive purchased CV.)
Myself nor Rorie have any ownership in the website. 4 years ago, before GMan left CV, I was brought over to GameSpot as an editor on the entertainment section--which I am still at now, and that's where all of my work is posted. After Gman left, I was brought back, kinda, just to help give engineers an idea of what the site needed for a redesign. I had no real part in the actual engineering. I just shouted a bunch ideas and some of them stuck.
I am not from California. I live outside of Chicago. I've never lived in Cali. Gman is originally from a city about 10 miles north of where I live now, but he currently lives in Cali.
I dropped "inferiorego" for "ImMatElfring" on Twitter for a variety of reasons. First, I never really liked "inferiorego," it was a silly hacker name I made up during my mIRC days in high school and stuck. Secondly, right before I got verified on Twitter, I made the decision to change my handle so it would be easier for people to find me on the social media site, since I don't have a facebook or anything.
I still occasionally come to CV but my main focus is on GameSpot. Over the past two years, I've made wrestling coverage a big thing there (I interview WWE and AEW people on the regular, like Kofi Kingston last week), I do lots of action figure and toy coverage, I get to review and write about TV and movies a lot more, and I have a much larger team to work with, so I never get burned out. I don't write a lot about comics there, which is nice because for the first time in a decade, I'm reading as a fan. If you're not moving forward, work becomes very hard to deal with. Luckily, GameSpot has been the best job I've had in my adult life. Working there is great.
I do not podcast about comics or wrestling anymore, but recently, I restarted my music video podcast after taking a one-year hiatus after my wife and I had a kid, so if you're weirdly desperate to hear my terrible voice, check it out.
I'll get down to brass tacks. I can't/couldn't stay here forever. I needed to move somewhere where I'd have coworkers who could better me as a writer and an editor. The things I have learned from my coworkers the past 4 years have greatly increased my skills. If you like what I did here, I'm still doing a lot of that at GameSpot, but it's better because I'm surrounded by a lot of people that help me become better.
Also, I still do silly stuff:
If you have more questions, yell them at me, please.
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