
But like I said, new blood had been pumped in. They ditched Dear Dottie for another fake advice columnist. They attempted to introduce new "recurring" characters. And the story process got altered. They didn't want any story, willy-nilly. They were looking for continuity from issue to issue. No longer could the paper say the hellmouth was discovered in Portland and then a few issues later say the hellmouth was located under a Pizza Hut in New Jersey. A lot of us stringers got cut loose. Sure, they allowed us to submit new stories, but they didn't allow themselves to buy any of them. It was a kick in the teeth for me at the time, too. I went into this, reluctantly, embarrassed by it and in the end I started to get a kick out of the whole set up. I'm glad Google has the issues stored online and that I had the chance to post them here (grabbing the Google screen caps, which were much better than my attempts to scan my issues). Long live Bat-boy!