Sorry for my general lack of posting. One post for the entire month of August is a new low (though I clearly didn't do particularly well in May, either). Nevertheless, I'm often torn between posting on the more general CBGXtra website (where I think people check more often), posting here (where I think people check less often), and posting on my own website, www.maggiethompson.com (though I try to limit that to non-comics conversations). In any case, my personal website is down while it's being dragged to a new server, so ... On the other hand, that has meant I've been thinking less of blogging in general, which translates to less blogging here, too.

In the meantime, though, I'm still out and about and have actually been spending considerable time: trying to get original art framed and hung; watching DVDs I'm about to review; reading books I'm about to review; shoveling random piles of clutter into carefully sorted piles of clutter; and getting into the routine of daily exercise (regarding which, it's about time).

I thought, though, that I'd quickly pass on a gambit my brother has recently employed. Given (1) that he wanted a friend to read Watchmen but (2) that Watchmen can be something of an indigestible lump when taken as one big novel: He's razored apart the paperback and is giving it to the friend one segment (i.e., one of the original "issues") at a time. We frequently find these days that it's more fun to read a story arc as one collected volume. But I think he's right that Watchmen was so crafted as to be best appreciated with a "thinking time" between installments.

What do you think?