Back in 2002, the last time I was playing with Poser 3, we had "newsgroups" for poser art and 3d art in general. No moderators, post whatever you want. You quickly learned which posters to ignore and which ones to read. The art was varied and creative, with a fair share of nudity and softcore, but an awful lot of really good art too. When you posted something it lasted for a couple days, and then was gone, buried under the flood of new art coming in all the time. It was wide open and unsupervised, but it worked. I miss the newsgroups.

But even then the newsgroups were dominated by teenage boys who got Poser for the sole purpose of gawking at naked females and creating scenes of mayhem and destruction featuring giant weapons, battle-bots, and (of course) half naked women carrying giant weapons. In that respect, nothing has changed much in the 13 years since I last played with Poser.

I came back to Poser because now that I'm retired I thought I'd like to do a graphic novel just for fun. But what I have in mind involves 19th century period costumes, no nudity, no giant weapons, no mayhem and destruction. Just good story-telling (I hope). I guess I'm obsolete. But that's OK. I'll still enjoy doing what I enjoy doing. I'll find some place to post my art.