RIP Mike. I really enjoyed all of the commentary tracks with H.G. Lewis and David Friedman. As great as Lewis and Friedman's stories were, Mike was always the most interesting part of those commentaries for me. Hopefully SWV will continue to distribute these classics, it sounds like Mike was quite sick for a while, so I would think he'd have a plan in place.
So I just found out today that this guy had a pretty big foundational hand in the opening of a video store local to me that I used to practically live in when I was younger (it is not around anymore, sadly).