A update and an apology.

So it's now the 19th of January, and I'm sitting semi-conscious at home, a cup of tea in one hand and an unnerving feeling that there's something else I aught to be doing on a Saturday afternoon, and I start to wonder quite where the last month of my life has gone?

It was my intention that the Who the Hell is : Digitek? post I put up was to be the first of several to make their way out over the Christmas period. In fact on Boxing Day I actually started scanning in some panels to use for WTHI? (A series acronym I almost certainly won’t stick with) spots for Mortigan Goth, Dark Angel and Tangerine. But that's pretty much as far as I actually got. 

Maybe as a side effect of getting outrageously drunk on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day evening, I then managed to collect a stinking head cold. I somehow also managed to follow that up after New Years' with what I believe is called 'Norovirus'. This was a big deal here in the UK, this festive period. Quite widespread apparently. Our local hospital was even closing and quarantining wards to try and limit its spread. 

The net result was some time off the day job. But despite my being at home, I wasn’t quite coherent enough to put together the posts I wanted to. I then sat myself down in front of the entire Season 3 of Lost, and if I had been feeling incoherent before that? I certainly wasn’t any the better by the time it was done. (Seriously, flash-forwards now? Really? We’re doing that now, are we?).

And so most of the first month of 2008 has been a bit fuzzy round the edges, so far. I intend to bring that back into focus, and hopefully make up for some lost time, sooner rather than later. 

2008 has a lot of interesting stuff to offer for those enthused by the British corner of the Marvel Universe and its cast of characters. New runs of ClanDestine and Excalibur, for one. They also tell me that Micromax has turned up in a story in Marvel Comic Presents. 

Then there's other line-wide events to factor in. 

Will the British version of the Superhero Registration Act, alluded to way back in Civil War: Battle Damage Report, come into play this year? 

What effect will Secret Invasion have on The Skrull Beatles? Surely, the most important question. 

And yes, I'm sure I'll get around to covering what Chris Claremont has been doing with Captain Britain in the pages of X-Men: Die by the Sword - if for no other reason that people keep asking about it...

I hope that 2008 brings you all that you hope for, and I hope you'll drop round here every once in a while. 

After Dermot Power and John Freeman dropping but in the comments on the Digitek article there's no reason that any of you should fear to post. Let me know your thoughts on all this. 

Speak soon.

Sword