It’s pretty obvious that I’m not just a casual comic book fan. I live, eat, and breathe comics. I love the art and the mythology. I cringe at gory death scenes. I cheer for the underdog. I giggle at the ridiculously hot half-naked women. I admire the heroism. I read in awe the grandeur of megalomaniac villains. I thrill at battles of cosmic proportions. And between my weekly comic fixes, I turn to the web for digital comic geekery.

Marvel. I’m a Marvel whore so it’s already a habit for me to visit the site to get updates on comics on sale, news on upcoming comics, blogs by editors and creators, wallpapers, and I even check out the character profiles when I have nothing else to do. This doesn’t mean I don’t visit the DC website. I do. I check out comics on sale and some other stuff when I’ve already exhausted my Marvel cravings.

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So I’ve been busy this past week at work. Never had that amount of tasks served to me before. Been assisting a fellow employee with a spyware problem (IE can be the biggest pain in the ass!), rolling out a sale on the PinoyDVD Online Store, and doing some CSS/HTML/PHP/Photoshop Kung Fu on the PinoyDVD Forum. I usually visit my regular interweb hangouts at work, but with all the tasks this week, I just didn’t have the time to dick around yUPieLBi, Newsarama, Digg, and The Man Blog Forum at work. And I’m online from 9 am to 6 pm! At home, the communal PC is always occupied by any one of my three siblings during weeknights. So what does a surf-hungry dude do to get his daily fix of interwebs dickery? Be Smart.

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For a week that features several Civil War tie-ins, “war” is not very apparent with my comic book geek life this week. Apart from the lovefest inside the comics I read this week (more on that later), I also joined the brand new social networking site for comic book fans. I’m talking about ComicSpace. It’s far from being a clone of Friendster or MySpace. And that’s a compliment.

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