As a long time viewer of his, even though I quit reading comics around Morrison's end of X-Men, it's just been weird seeing this as he was always something to listen to to stay in touch with this part of pop culture and what they're fucking up. Now in the past week or so Jon Del Arroz has become the "Ultimate Universe" version of Zack just doing simple comic talks.
I remember when Zack was able to get joint custody of Zackson, and would visit him in Austin. He would visit his daughter in New York every year and she seemed normal. It seemed like with Jawbreakers and Iron Sights those first years, basically up to Expendables, Zack had cleaned the slates financially and had some money put aside. He seems to still be living at his marine friend's house on the border despite wanting to move back to NYC, seems like Luna is gone or he's just moved to his own house in town.
It just comes across like everyone is pushed away now, he doesn't want to review comics and pushed them to community posts but his inability to actually get books out without the justifiable problems of Chyna Virus is making it seem like he's got a pill problem or something financially fucked him up in the background. Maybe he got some border hopper knocked up. When he's not railing against the other nerds he's picking the lowest hanging fruit in Tee Franklin as if to just say he's still "doing his job."
In many ways, Zack's starting to remind me of Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs fame, a conservative blog that became known for disproving the Dan Rather fake memo about George W Bush in the Texas Air National Guard, but as other conservative blogs started popping up into Obummer's years, he got jaded and nasty, and went completely lefty loony even before TDS happened.