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I picked up the regular armload of books last night on the way back from work but as we were going out for dinner, I ‘ve only read two so I’m keeping my head down today.

The two that I read – Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man and Ms Marvel were both great. In the former, its great to see the old black costume back and a down-on-his-luck Peter actually made me reminiscent. Oh, and though it didn’t spoil the next issue of Amazing, I did draw some conclusions that eased my worries a little bit. This might work out after all.

While the Spider-suit has always been an escape for Peter, it looks like this might be more true now than ever – and maybe that’s how it should be. Also lots of nice subplots going on – and could we be seeing the return of the nice-guy Sandman? I’m not holding my breath, but I will cross my fingers.

And speaking of subplots, Ms Marvel has them in spades – Carol’s love life, her failures, her mysterious benefactors, her agent, and then there’s Anya (Arana), Carol’s erstwhile sidekick…can someone classify as a Woman in (a) Refrigerator if what happens to her happens to advance another woman’s character? I’ll let Marionette and Ragnell debate that one…

Also, was it just me or was the comic store busier than usual yesterday? I put it down to The Dark Tower, so more power to it. I’ll be picking up the trade.

I also ditched a couple of books off my pull list, putting them back on the shelf with a not a little self-satisfaction. One was Supergirl, one that you’ll probably know that I’ve been bitching about for ages (just click the Supergirl label below to see what I mean, or click here), one was Nightwing and the other was Detective. I hadn’t been all that enthused with Marv Wolfman’s return to the character on the former, and I realised that I’d missed a couple of issues of the latter and it hadn’t bothered me…I’ll probably pick Dini’s stuff up in trades from now on and see who takes over next before deciding whether to go back to it or not.

Three down – about a hundred to go!

The blog surpassed 3000 hits this weekend (at least since I installed Sitemeter in early August), and I’m sure only half of those were me.

It may not be a lot compared to the big blogs, but a milestone is a milestone…

Anyway, as it’s a New Year (or was about a week ago) I thought I’d lay out some goals for the next year:

• Update once a day in the week at a minimum, unless I’m on vacation
• Try and find a reviewing and critiquing ‘voice’ that works – I’ve tried Characters I Don’t Get, An Open Letter To… and a few others but as yet none that feels really ‘right’
• Stop moaning about Supergirl and just drop it already (although I do have one more post on the matter brewing)
• Don’t drop the Spider-Man books, even if they kill MJ, have her divorce Peter, leave Peter, divorced by Peter, left by Peter for her own good, turn out to be a clone, turn out to be a SHIELD agent, turn out to be a Skrull agent or, basically, do anything to her. May on the other hand, they can do what they like to. Interfering old know-it-all.
• Not add to the titles I buy without dropping one.
• Dropping titles I don’t enjoy (more difficult than you’d think due to this damn collector’s mentality) no matter how long I’ve been buying them – unless it’s a Spider-book.
• Continue the back-issue hunt but not for things I already have in trade paperbacks or Essentials unless they’re really good deals.
• Get more comments – somehow. Not really sure how to do this but I guess if people are reading, they will come. Thank you, Field of Dreams.

I guess that’s it for now – back to work!