About Six Sixteen

Six Sixteen covers Marvel comics and the cultural universe that surrounds them, from film and TV to games and fandom. Marvel Comics is the starting point, but anything adjacent is fair game. Six Sixteen is written and produced by Deryck Hodge, for discerning fans and sophisticated readers everywhere.

I say discerning fan because Six Sixteen is meant to be a site that respects your time and assumes you have taste. If you're like me, you don't want more click-bait, ad farm style comic sites. I'm making the site I've always wanted, one that respects the time of its readers.

In the launch post for this site, I wrote:

I will promise you this, though—I will spend time on what I post and I will respect your time. I’ll think deeply about what I’m writing. I’ll have an opinion and a point of view, and if I post it here, it will be because I think you will find it interesting.

Don't people say "six one six?"

The site's name "Six Sixteen" is a play on the Earth-616 name for the canonical Marvel universe. I know, I know. Most people say "six one six." Six Sixteen just had a ring to it. Hopefully, it also indicates the tone and perspective of the way Marvel comics, culture, and more is covered here.

Contact

The easiest way to get in touch with me is to email deryckh@gmail.com. I'm also on Threads and Bluesky. Actually, you can find me on most sites as @anderycks but those two are the ones I'm most active on.

Disclosures

I work within the media and entertainment industry as a software engineer and web developer. My day job is at CNN, which is within Warner Bros. Discovery. I don't have any connection to DC Comics at WBD, but just because my work is under the same parent company, I want to note that connection. Anything I cover here, including anything DC Comics related, is because I think it will be interesting to this site's readers, not because of my connection to WBD.

The thoughts and opinions represented here are entirely my own.

Colophon

This site is a Ghost blog, hosted on Ghost Pro. The theme is a heavily customized version of Ghost's Journal theme. I mean, heavily customized.

I work on Apple's devices, using a MacBook Neo as my main personal computer, with an iPhone Air and iPad Air as my mobile devices. Most of my posts here start their life as a Bear App note. I use Markdown for text.