Although it is clear to me now that I will not have all the underground comics reviewed by April 1, I am still planning to officially launch the website on that date. My comic book reviews have been delayed for several reasons, including working with Dan Fogel on a new publishing project and building the Forum for the site, which is now launched (join today)!

However, it seems silly to delay the official launch yet again when I have already had over 100,000 page views of the site, with 500 more page views occurring every day. I've also had comic creators and publishers contact me to provide me with additional publishing history and to compliment the site, so I'm only kidding myself to think the site is still "in hiding."

I have finally added an overdue Search engine on the site and my testing indicates that is works quite well. Adding a search function will help reduce the number of failed page requests the site has been getting, because everyone wants to be able to search a site as large as this one. Now that I have also launched the Forum, most of the failed page requests will come from section listings for Q through Z, which provide dead links to comic book reviews that I have not yet completed.

There are over 2,500 pages up on the site and I'm about halfway through reviewing section P. I still have about 400 more pages to finish to complete the Underground Comix section. I expect that will take several more months, but continually delaying the site launch is no longer an option.

As stated from the beginning, my intent is to build Comixjoint into the premier website for non-conventional comic book collectors. After finishing the underground section, I will move on to the sections devoted to alternative comics, small press comics and books and magazines. By the time I'm done, there will be over 10,000 pages on the site, and each one will be individually built and customized down to the last pixel.

Thank you for being patient with this site. Feel free to send comments to me at msteven@comixjoint.com.