SITE HISTORY
So you I see you're still at the site? Thats always a good sign. What a lot of people ask me is what prompted you to make the site? What exactly draws you to this particular character instead of characters with long held backgrounds personalities, etc? Its hard to say really. When most people think of their favorite Marvel characters, they mostly head into a mainstream decision. Spider-Man, Wolverine; characters with a rich history and appearences to garner their popularity. I've always leant my favorites in any genre to the obscure. Obscure characters are the ones that not everyone has seen and because of this, most companies that make the genre tend to forget about them or just leave them in limbo. Which brings us to Eye-Scream. Eye-Scream first caught my attention back in April of 2003.
I was sitting at my old home and just really lazying around, skimming through a copy of brother's Wizards magazine, which he had gotten a subscription of at the time. It just so hapenned to be the April Fools Day issue and was jam packed with random Comic moments that were witty, odd and strange. As I stumbled upon each page, a particular section caught my eye -- Weirdest Moments in Comics. It had to be good right? It had stuff from Godzilla playing basketball like Michael Jordan to some weirdo superhero who drove a Truck in space. As I laughed at the entries (especially Bat-Hombre!), I came across this. I couldn't believe it...Marvel had created a mutant villain character for the X-Men that could turn into ice cream. How amazing is that? While I knew for a fact that this probably wasn't mentioned or hopefully forgotten about in continuity, I still needed to know everything there was about this character. So I quickly ran to my basment and logged onto the internet.
Naturally, there was very little information on Eye-Scream located there. But it did its job. I knew the story and I knew for the most part about Eye Scream. Knowing that then, I quickly became dissapointed. Was that it? I found out everything I needed or ever wanted to know about Eye Scream in close to 15 seconds of searching. Most people would've laughed and continued on their way. But I lingered there. I didn't want my interest in Eye Scream to end. There had to be a way to permenetly place Eye Scream as the #1 importance in my mind. What better then to create a website off of him?
Here's some the Eye Scream Fansite's past layouts. Click for larger. First was a Freewebs template...><
And so I did. And so began the journey of creating the Eye Scream Fansite. My biggest concern was if anyone would really care to visit a site about a character with little to no background. But once I leapt into the process of organizing and creating the site, that worry went away. It no longer really mattered to me. The only true thing that mattered was that I finally had a place of my own on the web, and I was showcasing and spotlighting a character that never never garnered it, ever. It was really quite exciting in my own little world. On May 23, 2003, the Eye Scream Fansite opened and I was overjoyed.
I had finished and my baby was ready to be viewed by the world. While never a "popular" site, I got visited by many a webmaster of other X-Men sites who commended me on creating a site on such a character and said they were made a fan. As layouts changed, and content were tweaked, we finally land where we are today. Its fourth year running. Thats right. The Eye Scream Fansite is a four year old. I really can't believe its been around this long. I'd really like to thank everyone who has visited the site and sent me encouraging e-mails to keep it going and to thank the new visitors for taking time from their day to see a fan-crazed webmaster share to you his feelings on a rather pointless character. And thirdly, and lastly, I'd like to thank Eye-Scream, for turning a simple "Who is this?" to a lifelong webpassion. Eye-Scream will always be my favorite Marvel character for years to come. And who knows? Maybe Marvel will finally dredge up that Obnoxio issue and re-use such a hilarious villain.
I can dream can't I..? ;)