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Date: 2006-06-16 20:11:28

Comment:

"I know Mick personally, although lately he's been going by the name Michael Suttle, probably because everybody knows who he is now, which he is NONE too happy about! Especially considering that he is not Supershadow. Not really.

When we started Supershadow back in 1998 (or so?), Supershadow was four of us. To this day, there is more than one Supershadow. Mick is the only known one of us, because the site was registered in his name. He was the only one of us that had a credit card! He is only one SS. There are another two guys in addition to Mick who answer fan questions. There's one guy who spends all his time making up fake Star Wars history for us to use, like "Kaja Sinis". That was made up by a guy named Shawn. We all loved Shawn's ideas, so most of the Star Wars history on that site is Shawn. There's one guy who does the Lucas stuff and handles the official SS Myspace profile.

The initial concept of SS was to piss off rabid Star Wars fans with false info and statements that would incite a riot. All of us being in school or having jobs, we took turns coming up with ideas and that is still how SS.com works. If you're paying attention, you can tell when various people are writing. "Supershadow"'s writing style is pretty consistent, but if you pay attention you can tell who is answering. At first we were just posting fake Star Wars news to piss off the fans. Now they get so much email, we just answered questions of the fans.

I was "Supershadow" (or one of the people that wrote as SS) up until about a year ago. It was whenever they decided to start doing the Lucas Q&A thing. As I said, that's not Mick who writes as Lucas. And no, I won't share my real full name or anyone else's. The reason I stopped taking part in SS.com is that the Lucas thing worried me. I didn't want to get sued, so I gradually left.

Mick's a good guy, very wicked sense of humour as all of us had. We just loved pissing off Star Wars fans with postings like, "Jar Jar is the most popular character by far!" and then watching the emails come in. There'd always be a ton for us to use, and piss more people off. It was good fun. I still see Mick/Michael sometimes. He does a lot less of SS now, because he started a new job recently. I think he's working for his dad's law firm? Can't remember. Either way it doesn't matter as we all deserve a certain degree of privacy.

None of us EVER expected that SS.com would become what it is today. When we posted that we were the most popular Star Wars site in the world, it may well have been true! The number of hits we'd get was insane. Not the kind of number the official site gets, but very respectable.

The reason I am "coming out" so to speak is so people will lay off Mick a bit. He gets mad when people post his personal info online, he's had to change his phone number three times now. Mick's a good guy, and "Supershadow" is just a prank that went a bit too far. That is why I don't do it anymore. No regrets though. Some of the best nights of my life were spent at Mick's house writing answers to fan questions. A lot of good times and laughs went into building SS.com

That is all I am willing to say at this time. Take it easy on Mick OK?

James"