As is traditional, we’re going to take be taking the Good Friday/Easter Monday holidays off for a well-deserved rest. Regular service will resume on Tuesday, though check back on Sunday for the regular Sunday Pages news/commentary/speculation roundup! I was going to post an easter-related comics picture, but they’re surprisingly hard to find. Still, the thought was there.

Comics Daily will be taking a short break for the festive period! We’re not really sure when the comics are out this week, but rest assured we’ll most likely be back in some form or another by, ooh, Friday or so. Anything you get before then is a bonus, so remember to be thankful in this season of goodwill.

For anyone wondering, the image above is from X-Men (Vol. 2) #165, and is one of the X-Men’s many christmas issues written by Chris Claremont, as if that wasn’t obvious from the fact it has Rachel and Kitty dressed as elves and Beast dressed as Chris Claremont.

Anyway, that turkey isn’t going to eat itself (which is strange, because it’s probably been eating nothing but slurry made from the ground-up corpses of its departed barn-mates) so I’m off. See you back here in a few days.

I haven’t done any non-review updates before, but after a few weeks of solid comics reviews, I think it’s time to directly address the loyal and confused public with my thoughts and plans on the site so far. It’s been a fairly good few weeks, with a cold launch quickly ramping into a pleasing amount of daily traffic (though would it hurt you to comment sometimes!?) - coming up: more of the same! Though I do have a few tricks still in the bag that I’ll be pulling out now that things are running smoothly. There are a few points of order, however:

Firstly, as of today, Comics Daily is a 2-man operation! I’ve invited my once and future Noise to Signal colleague, Seb Patrick, to reach the parts that other reviewers (like me) can’t - for instance, DCU titles. Expect his first review to go up later today. I’ll probably still handle the bulk of the site, but this way I get the odd day off and you get a chance to read about Batman and Superman occasionally, instead of yet another Moon Knight issue.

Secondly, regular readers (ahem) will be pleased to hear that the design is now finalised, so you shouldn’t have the horrible shock of discovering yet another new template in use, though I’ll probably rotate the banner image or something just to keep it fresh every now and again.

Lastly, in addition to the RSS feed there is also now LJ syndication available to all citizens in the Union of Soviet Socialist Livejournal. Feel free to enjoy it, though all the vodka in Russia won’t help you if you leave comments there instead of here.

Thanks for listening!