For the last couple of months I’ve been bouncing an idea around for Tangents. When I first created the “Secant” review type, I was writing up short paragraphs about things that caught my attention. Given my tendency toward loquaciousness even with short comments, the Secants quickly grew to be three paragraph write-ups that would take several hours to compose (and would be even longer if I didn’t arbitrarily limit them to three paragraphs). I’ve been wanting to write up shorter comments on various comics, partly to write more often (and hopefully encourage more regular reviews as a result) and also because sometimes I see something I want to talk about that a full Secant would be wasted on.

The problem is, I’m unsure if these shorter comments (I was thinking of various names to call them; one idea is “chords” for the term on the measurement between two points of a secant, but I’m not exactly thrilled with the term. Considering my ideas for “Radians” is dead in the water, I might resurrect that term for these short bits) should be put on the primary Tangents site; while they do showcase various comics that I find interesting, and would also increase how often I write, I don’t know if people want to wade through these short comments between the regular reviews. I recently created a Facebook page for Tangents and was wondering if the mini-Secants should only be posted there, or if people would prefer them to be included on the primary Tangents site as well.

While I know a lot of my readers tend not to log into the comments board or e-mail me about reviews, I would appreciate feedback concerning the mini-Secants idea and if they want to see them on the primary Tangents site, or posted only on the Tangents Facebook page. E-mails can be sent to Tangentsreviews at gmail dot com (obviously replacing the “at” with @ and “dot” with a period). Thanks!