CBI Archive
The Fourth Rail Is Good
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 at 10:13 AM EST
Updated: Tuesday, August 29th, 2006 at 10:23 AM EST
I’ll miss it. Congratulations to Don and Randy on so many years of great reviews on The Fourth Rail. An achievement well worth celebrating. Make sure you two drop me a line when each of your next gigs starts up, so I can pimp it here! And to you folks, check out this collection of Don and Randy’s favorite reviews from their FIVE years at this particular site - some fun, fun stuff collected there.
5 Comments
Randy Lander
August 29, 2006 at 10:39 am
Consider that line dropped, Brian… Comic Pants (www.comicpants.com) is live as of today, and we’ve got a pretty good number of reviews already up!
Thanks for the shout-out, and for everything y’all do over here. I *love* Comic Book Urban Legends, especially!
Bill Reed
August 29, 2006 at 11:07 am
I have Randy Lander to thank/blame for my Thor obsession. I remember reading the reviews for Jurgens/Romita’s Thor #1… many moons ago.
A toast to you, good sirs! I intend to keep reading your reviews well into the future.
Rebis
August 31, 2006 at 11:32 am
I discovered the site sometime in ’04 and enjoyed reading their reviews and features when it was still firing on both cylinders. It does indeed make sense to let it lie fallow and then shut it down if you can’t continue to devote the energy to it. Congrats, Don and Randy, on a site well run — and good luck to you on your new ventures!
GQ
September 1, 2006 at 5:41 am
Wow, I remember when the site opened! Time flies, man. It was a great site but did start to slip in quality in recent times. It’s a shame to see it go but hey, thanks for 5 great years, guys! Best of luck for the future!
stealthwise
September 1, 2006 at 9:35 am
I hated The Fourth Rail. Of course, I’d only been reading reviews since this past year, but I found myself disagreeing with what I read about 80% of the time, and found their reviewing system incongruent with what they were saying about the books. That, and that fact that one of them (I forget which one) had the annoying tendency to pick apart one small aspect of the book and rant forever, means I won’t miss this site at all.