Hey there, Internet! It is 2010 – the official start of The Future. Each year I’ve been more and more disappointed at the refusal of flying cars to allow themselves to be invented. However, if you had told me ten years ago that I would have a little calculator-sized device on which I could store my whole music collection and check my e-mail (what’s an “e-mail”?) and even watch moving video images beamed telemagically into my device on invisible waves, I would have laughed you into a puddle. Same goes for if you had told me that I would prefer to spend my time reading through a column of 140-character ramblings of friends and celebrities over watching a television programme.  I had become so preoccupied waiting for the future I thought would arrive that I hardly noticed how much things had changed. And that’s just my iPod Touch – nevermind all the other crazy things that have happened (for example, people stopped saying “hella” and “rad”).

So maybe this year will be the year I stop waiting for the flying car. I’m going to get a new kitchen faucet and sink, I’m going to renovate the bathroom, and I’m going to finish a graphic novel (more on that later, I promise). I’m excited to find out what this purported Apple tablet might mean for comic books (it could be an awesome medium). I’m going to try to play video games a little less, and I will probably fail. But at least I won’t be waiting for the flying car.

To you who’s reading this – happy New Year to you, and I hope it is a good year with many successes, free from trouble, strife, and sickness. I will endeavour to provide more compelling content here, and when I fail at that, I will at least provide more content. If you’ll let me, I’ll be a part of your 2010, and you’ll be a part of mine, and it’ll be hella rad.