Only read the following if you have the word/phrase Middlecenter rings a bell for you.


[link] is bringing up a blank page

I guess Ed finally gave up? (or forgot to renew the domain?) or the server is down? Maybe I should have waited for a month before posting this.

There were only like three updates in the last two years. And the forum died too. Still, his and Stormy's efforts will be remembered. If not by the fans, but by the web-archive. Just Kidding. Middlecenter was really one of my first bridges into the webcomic world. I came there by a link on NoNeedForBushido.com, and promptly read through the 100+ comic pages on the site. And then waited. and waited. (this would become a common theme with Middlecenter Fandom) Eventually, I became curious enough to sign the guestbook, and explore the rest of the site, including the forum.

I do not know what inspired me to fill out the register form on Ed's site, and not the several webcomic sites I had visited before, but for some reason I dutifully provided my email address, username, and even an avatar. Lo and behold ! I had joined my first webcomic community.

Middlecenter was not the only comic I read, or even the first one. However, it was the only one that provided me with a sense of community with other fans. Ed and Stormy never had that many pageviews, or updated on time very much, but still I dutifully checked back at the site every now and then, if not for new comics, but for new forum posts. I was new to being on an internet forum, and I constantly made the mistake of typing the first thing that came into head, and pressing "post". I may have come off as immature, or even crazy, but it was the beginning of a learning process, that continues still now.

I don't know where Ed is now, or even who Ed Mason really is. But I do know that he touched my life in a small sort of way.
>> I hope this post didn't come off as weird or anything