All right, I'm a little late, but here I am.

My name is Matt, and I live in sunny California. I work at Wells Fargo bank, currently as a Lead Teller.

I've never been as into G.I. Joe as a lot of people on this site. I only owned a handful of Joes when I was young, because I was more interested in He-Man and the Transformers, then later the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I really got into Joes when I was "too old" to play with toys. A friend of my younger brother gave him Tracker for his birthday, and then my brother decided to pick up a few more. That same night he got the red-masked Cobra Commander and Snake-Eyes v4 at the drug store, and on my next trip to the comic shop I picked up G.I. Joe #120 for him. I read it first, though, and really liked it. So my brother and I both started buying Joes, and we chanced into a windfall when a friend of mine was told by his parents to unload his collection. We paid him $100.00 and wound up with nearly every figure from 1986-1989, and many vehicles including the Conquest, HAVOC, Night Raven... and a Terrordrome! To this day I feel a little guilty about buying all that stuff for so little, knowing now what they're worth. But I'm still friends with the guy, so I guess he doesn't mind.

Anyway, like I said, Joes weren't (and still aren't) my first love. I like them a lot, but I only buy what interests me. I also collect Marvel Legends and (surprise, surprise) Transformers-- Though mainly just Alternators and the new Classics, plus the occasional Armada/Energon/Cybertron figure that catches my eye. I also collected the Masters of the Universe revival from a few years ago until Mattel's own blundering killed it. Above all that, though, is my first love, Marvel Comics. I buy and read several titles a month. I do collect a few things from other companies, but it's mostly all Marvel. However, a lot of what they've been producing lately seems sub-standard when compared with the stuff I grew up on, so my monthly reading list has been dwindling as I've been picking up their trades of older material to enjoy. I just finished Champions Classics vols. 1 and 2, am currently reading Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne vol. 7, and have Excalibur Classics vol. 3 lined up next.

I used to read a lot of novels, mainly based on licensed properties like Star Wars and Star Trek, but haven't picked one up in a few years. I love Sherlock Holmes, and every so often get the itch to read some of those stories. Also, I'm addicted to television. My current "must watch" shows include 24, Prison Break, Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, all of NBC's Thursday night comedies, Family Guy, and American Dad. My favorite TV show of all time is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which is the only Trek series I bought in its entirety on DVD. I also love animation, and since there haven't been any outstanding American animated shows for a while (with the exception of Justice League), I've dabbled in some anime. Some of it I love, but some of it seems pretty bad.

Other than that, I just like to hang out with friends and have fun. We go to a lot of movies, even though the prices of admission have gotten insanely high. Oh, and I almost forgot, I'm a die-hard San Francisco Giants fan.

I only came across this site when I had made my G.I. Joe background music files, and needed a place to post them. Hammerfel came to my rescue on the JoeCustoms board by offering to host them here, and I readily agreed. It's kind of cool to have been a "founding member" as it were, and see everyone who passes through post their pictures.

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