Thomas Reed

Thomas E. Reed is a television engineer in Orlando, Florida. His paid job is keeping two television stations on the air overnight, including running programming, getting satellite feeds of programs, setting up microwave live shots, and keeping the equipment running without having to wake up his bosses or other engineers.

His twisted theatrical past includes six years in three Florida Rocky Horror Picture Show Live Casts, including one Halloween where he was the only cast member who showed up at the theatre - and during which he performed all the "shadow cast" parts, coached the audience in "participation lines" and kept the audience from ripping the theater apart.

He was one of the founders of SunQuest Partners, which from 1996 to 2004 hosted and organized role playing conventions in Central Florida, including the gaming at the MegaCon conventions. As SunQuest's Publicity Director, he produced a blizzard of flyers, posters, convention schedules and program books.

For years he wrote review articles for TOON Magazine, a quarterly for animation fans. When the magazine's publisher went bankrupt, Tom joined with TOON fellow writers Michelle Klein-Hass and Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman, and founded The Cartoon Geeks. They post reviews of animation, anime, comic books, graphic novels, live-action movies, and anything else they deem worthy. Together they record the Cartoon Geeks podcast (still struggling towards monthly regularity) and post reviews from conventions they attend. Tom maintains the web site and does the audio editing on the podcasts.

Over the last decade he's been an invited guest at the Dragon*Con convention in Atlanta, Georgia. His signature event is "Pre-Sweetened Playhouse," in which he "improves" classic animated shows - much like The Joker "improved the paintings" in the first Batman movie. He's also assisted with CD sales at Dragon*Con for comedy music artists such as The Great Luke Ski. His contribution of microphones, recorded intros and other technical gear to the comedy music DJ's on Dementia Radio has gained him the unofficial status of "Dementia Radio's quartermaster."

In his spare time, such as it is, he enjoys Dementia comedy music, improvisational comedy, comic books, film noir, classic TV series and all the standard geek movies and entertainments. He takes pleasure in seeking out and providing furniture, food, repair work and technical help to worthy impoverished people he meets. His greatest spiritual quest is holding a vigil for the return of regular television series that engages the heart, soul and mind.

Turn-ons include whimsy, humor, intelligence, cleverness and well-prepared food, especially baked goods. Turn-offs include fictional and role-playing vampires, sadism, cruelty, egotism and all sports. His standards for women are impossibly high, which explains his complete lack of dating for the last fifteen years; he wants a woman that has a pulse that won't recoil from him.

Thomas is the voice of Zee in "Catwoman: Queen of Thieves".