Another Series To Follow

And with that, we are staring down the barrel of another Wednesday of failure. Between heavy commitments in the morning and at the day jobs for Amanda and myself, we barely had time to accomplish the stuff that pays the bills, let alone write that last-minute review of last week’s Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #28 (Short answer: it was good). Combine that with the fact that we live in Boston, and not only are the Red Sox are back at Fenway hoping to wrap up the World Series tonight, but President Obama is in town to distract us from the problems with the health care Web site (of course, he came to the wrong place: we’ve had one for years, so we’re good, yo), and we were barely able to get the cars through the crippling traffic in time to get to my local comic store, where they know me by name and ask me to remember that the closing time on the door isn’t just a fucking suggestion.

And combine all those factors with the fact that the World Series has been going on for a week now, meaning that we have spent five of those days grappling with the terminal exhaustion that only comes on the back side of three-plus hour games, and we’re lucky either one of us can write our own names, let alone any kind of in-depth comic book news or reviews. I mean Jesus, DC Comics just announced that they’re moving their entire operation from New York to Burbank, California, and the best analysis I’ve been able to muster up is, “Um, that’s wicked far away.”

And alas, the Red Sox game starts in just a few minutes, which means my only comic book related thoughts will be my suspicion that David Ortiz might have superpowers. However, the big takeaway from this tale of missed deadlines is that we made it to the comic store, which means that this…

…means the end of our broadcast day.

But even with the distractions of October baseball at Fenway Park, that’s a good haul of comics. We have a bunch of DC Comics annuals, the first issue of Andy Kubert’s Damian: Son of Batman (But I watched him die!), the Point One introduction to the Ultimate Universe (ending?) crossover Cataclysm, and, most anticipated – the new issue of Saga by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples! Plus there’s a bunch of other cool stuff!

But before we can talk about any of them, we need to watch the Sox win the World Series (please God, I need to sleep!). So until then…

…see you tomorrow, suckers!