But it's been a week of coping with wild weather and digging out material to scan for the next issue of Comics Buyer's Guide, etc. For example, have you ever seen a 16-page giveaway titled Powerman and Power Mower Safety from 1966? Scott Shaw! provides some information on it as one of his Odd Comics, but we'll give you a look at an inside page -- written and drawn by Vaughn Bode! (He was the art director for the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute.)

And we've been building an outline of increased videos and podcasts at CBGXtra -- which, of course, hasn't brought you the videos and podcasts themselves. But, yes, there will be lots. Eventually.

Which I say cheerily, despite the fact that all our office e-mail Went Away around noon of Feb. 20. We've been told there's a chance it'll be up again by, say, noon Central Time tomorrow. But just in case you've been expecting an e-mail from one or another of us ... Well, I'll let you know.

In the meantime, I finally had a chance to settle down to watch last night's Torchwood on BBC America and was delighted to see it change the pace slightly from earlier in Season Two. Further comments at CBGXtra.