Yeah, if you'll remember, MS was teasing me for a while saying "Gene fears the b-boy pose" here. Now you know why. You should also mention that our dear kungfuchic is also there - she got in twice, one for her grand champion award and another for the forum.
As for doing weapons issues that are more specific, ie. southern, spears and staffs, etc. that's a fine idea, but let's see if just a sword issue works first. Remember we only do 6 issues a year, and they can't all be specials. Then they wouldn't be 'special'. Actually, there's a bit of a logisitical problem with spear and staff, since for the most part, only spearheads remain, and while there are some fine examples, they aren't nearly as coveted, and therefore adorned, as swords.
We have a lot of willing contributors - the problem is finding more willing capable contributors.Sean, if you want to do something on southern weapons, that's fine, we'd enjoy looking at that. It's a really messing field, hopologically speaking. But please don't wait for an inviation to work on a special issue. Such invitations are rarely extended from us. Typically, the specials happen rather organically - we look what's in our publishing queue, and the specials sort of fall out by themselves.
Thanks for the comments and critiques, guys! This is my favorite function of the forum and helps me get as sense of what you all want to see for our direction.
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Originally Posted by Psycho Mantis
) but that was back when we were a smaller magazine and saddle-stitched. Now we're 'perfect bound' which is more like how books are bound. Saddle-stitched means that the pages are stapled on top of each other, like horse and saddle, which makes a center poster more feasible. Perfect binding has a spine and it's a combo of several smaller books bound into a big book, so the concept of a pull-out poster is much more difficult (and costly) to achieve. You'll just have to patch your wall holes with back issues for now, I'm afraid...
