About Us

Editor-in-Chief

Name: Chris Partin
Email: chris@thecomicaddiction.com
Alias: Uncle Chris, Comic Addict
Base of Operations: Raleigh, NC
Occupation: CAD Standards Manager (by day), Director of S.H.I.E.L.D (by night)

If you had super-powers, what would they be:  Powers?  I don't need no stinkin' powers! 

First Comic Book: Elfquest #17 (WaRP Graphics)

Back in 1983/1984 I was just starting to get into drawing.  At this point I was about 9 to 10 years old.  My cousin and I loved drawing.  We'd draw anything we could find or that would stand still.  He eventually got so good he didn't need any references, but I never got to that level.  I needed to "see" something in order to draw it.  When I went into my first comic book shop and saw this cover I knew I had to pick it up.  I flipped through the book and loved it and became an Elfquest fan for life.  While I don't have any of the books anymore (too many collection purges) I still remember all of the stories and characters.  Maybe one of these days I'll go back and collect them all again!

Favorite Comic Book/Storyline: "the Judas Contract" - New Teen Titans #39-40 and Tales of the New Teen Titans #41-44.

If there's one storyline that hit me harder than any other it was "the Judas Contract" in the pages of Tales of the Teen Titans and New Teen Titans.  I had been a fan of the Teen Titans for only a few short months before this storyline hit and while I had been enjoying these characters nothing had been quiet this good to me.  With the upcoming DVD release of this storyline in the next year or so I'm really excite to see it all becoming "live" in front of me.  I'm definitely brushing off the dust from these issues and reading them again in preparation!
 

Supervising Editor
 

Name: Paul Steven Brown
Email: paul@thecomicaddiction.com
Alias: The Puffin, Puffinagogo
Base of Operations: Louisville, KY
Occupation: Human Resource Manager, Musician, Mutant Expert

If you had super-powers, what would they be: Telekinesis

First Comic Book: Detective Comics #507, but I didn’t really start reading comics until I picked up Star Wars #92.

Favorite Comic Book/Storyline: Uncanny X-Men. I’ve been reading Uncanny X-Men without interruption ever since issue #205, though it should be historically noted that my first mutant book was X-Factor (Vol. 1) #3.
 

Editor & Public Relationist

Name: Antony Robert Ellis
Email: antony@thecomicaddiction.com
Alias: Antonio, Remy
Base of Operations: Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Occupation: Pensions Officer and Freelance Researcher

If you had super-powers, what would they be: I’ve always thought it would be soooooo cool to have Telekinesis – and I know that if I had superpowers, they’d go to my head and I’d probably become a supervillain!

First Comic Book: I started reading comics quite late compared to my colleagues on Comic Addiction, as I didn’t start reading and collecting comics full time until about 2003, while studying at University. However, it was a holiday to the US in the early 90s when I first got bitten by the superhero bug when I caught the pilot episode of The X-Men Animated Series. It was like crack! I had to learn more about these X-Men and from that date I’ve continued to watch the TV series, played the video games and enjoyed the X-Men movies.

Soon after I remember being introduced to actual X-Men comic books as I discovered that one of my classmates friends also was an X-Men fan and it was then that I actually read my first comic book, Adjectiveless X-Men #30 (the wedding of Scott Summers and Jean Grey).

Favorite Comic Book/Storyline: The Dark Phoenix Saga, being a huge X-Men fan, holds a special place for me as a brilliant comic book storyline, however, I have to admit that later X-Men stories for me are somewhat better, including the X-Men, X-Factor and New Mutant issues that form The Mutant Massacre, Inferno and also Fall of the Mutants.

I’m a huge Superman fan (I have the tattoo to prove it!) One of my favourite Superman stories was A Superman for All Seasons – while I didn’t love the art, I found the story and the writing element of the four seasons extremely impressive. I also loved the Death of Superman, A World Without Superman and to a lesser extent, The Return of Superman part of the event that was Superman’s death.
 

Senior Writers

Name: Robert Tacopina
Email: rob@thecomicaddiction.com
Alias: Iceman, Rob
Base of Operations: Lawrenceville, Georgia
Occupation: Unregistered hero, professional geek

If you had super-powers, what would they be: Telepathy, so I can mess with your head!

First Comic Book: X-Men #201...Cyclops vs. Storm, who will lead the X-Men?

Favorite Comic Book/Storyline: This is tough but I guess I would have to say my favorite storyline was X-Men related. I really liked the Mutant Massacre & Fall of the Mutants due to the events that transpired in both of those stories.

Name: Angela Paman
Email: angela@thecomicaddiction.com
Alias: acomicbookgirl, ACBG
Base of Operations: Southern California
Occupation: Advertising

If you had super-powers, what would they be: Hmm.. the power to manipulate Karma.

First Comic Book: Wonder Woman: Gods of Gotham which collected Wonder Woman #164-#167 by Phil Jimenez. It didn’t look like a trade but like a really thick comic book. This was the book that started my love affair with comics and Wonder Woman is the only title that I have collected to this day. I’ve stuck with it through think and thin.

Favorite Comic Book/Storyline: There have been quite a few but I still can’t get over the recent Check Mate storyline “La Vie En Sang”
 

the Writing Staff...

Name: Ed Moore, Jr.
Email: ed@thecomicaddiction.com
Alias: Miscatonic
Base of Operations: The booger woods of Southern West Virginia
Occupation: Geographic Information Systems (boring)

If you had super-powers, what would they be: Telepathy, knowing the future

First Comic Book: Shogun Warriors #3 A grade school buddy of mine had gotten some 3 inch metal figures of the Shogun Warriors and when he told me that they had a comic book too I had to get one.

Favorite Comic Book/Storyline: Uncanny X-Men #173 I thought that seeing Storm come out of her snotty phase was the coolest thing, plus how could you go wrong in the early 80's with skin tight black leather. It worked for Pat Benatar. Favorite Storyline: Strange Tales 155-168 Steranko writing, drawing, inking and coloring his own stuff was extraordinary at that time. Nick Fury became the character we see today and is still relevant.