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Name: Craig
Joined: December 1, 2004

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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

I'm a big comic book geek, and Alan Moore has been one of the main influences on my life. His "Miracleman" (aka Marvelman), a British analog of Captain Marvel, had to speak "Kimota!" ("atomic" backwards) instead of "Shazam!" in order to transform into his super-hero self. I always liked the word and have used it as a username in a number of places....