1. I’ve been told by my e-mail host, Fastmail, that there’s a catastrophic disk outage that’s playing havoc on their site, and I’ll be unable to access the ray@raycornwall.com email for at least a day. So I’ll be slow to respond to emails this weekend.
2. I’ve changed some of the tags around on the sidebar.
3. I owe everyone articles on Luke Cage, a few Masterworks, and Iron Wok Jan. I should make some headway this weekend. The Iron Wok Jan reread came out of the last attempts to revive 35-30, which I’ve decided is just not feasible anymore. One thing I’ve definitely picked up on the second time around is the extent of Jan’s physical abuse at the hands of his grandfather; it changes the whole tone of the story. It’s still a fantastic story, but it’s a little disturbing.
4. Comics shopping goodness: If you shop at Buy.com until 10/31 and check out using Google Checkout, you’ll save $10 off a $30 order. The discount can be used repeatedly, so you could buy, say, $210 worth of books for $140 by doing 7 orders. The deal doesn’t work on pre-orders, and they seem to be slow on updating new books; I noticed Ode to Kirihito and the Ivan Brunetti anthology were not in their warehouses even though I saw the books on the shelves of Barnes & Noble last weekend. And if you’re meticulous about the condition of your books, I don’t recommend the service; they don’t pack books anywhere near as good as, say, Mailordercomics.com. But if you’re just looking for a few graphic novels to read, you can’t go wrong.