Just this once, everybody wins!

Okay, I know, it's been a month. And a half. But it's been a busy month (and a half), full of excuses. Either way, it's time to (finally) announce the winners of the Walking with Superman Contest! You might recall that I set up prizes for the top two places, and what do you know: two people entered! So everyone's a winner.

And isn't that how Superman would have wanted it? I think it is.

First, our runner-up, who will be receiving a not-too-shabby-if-I-do-say-so-myself care package of Action Comics #775 (shut up, it is not overrated), the sadly and strangely as-yet-uncollected Dark Knight Over Metropolis three-parter, Invincible Iron Man Annual #1 (one of last year's best comics), and the two-volume Jimmy Olsen: Adventures by Jack Kirby set, David Lawrence, who turned in this excellent-and-hilarious take on Walking with Superman: Day 91, one of my personal favorites.

No lie: I would write Superman and Frankenstein solving mysteries Scooby-Doo style in a heartbeat.

And without further ado (there's been forty-odd too many days of ado already), our winner--of Freakazoid Season 1 and Look! Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman on DVD, The Physics of Superheroes, 2nd Edition, and of course, The Walking Dead Vol. 1 and All-Star Superman Volumes 1 & 2 in TPB form!--it's Maestro Drake's cover to Walking with Superman: Day 155.

His description:

Skyman and the Squadron are dressed in Secret Service attire walking through downtown while an interloper ensues.
It appears Lois Lane is after the President but she may have a different motive.

Okay, that's finally over. Now I just have to send out the care packages, which I can't do until I have some physical addresses. So gentlemen, if you will, send 'em along to doubtingtom83 [at] gmail [dot] com, and I'll get those in the mail. And I promise it won't take me a month.

Oh, and one more thing...it's not an entry, but I feel I ought to spotlight this fun Paint-ing by my good friend Jess:

Sadly, I don't think that'll happen before August. But come August...

The End is Nigh

Boy, am I tired of posting these "I swear I'll start posting more" notices on da blogs, but I'm even more tired of allowing the blog to lie fallow and gather dust. I've been roughing it, ladies and gents, living in my new apartment without cable or Internet for two weeks or so, after a pretty intensive two-week course on particle physics. But the end is in sight, and the cable guy is shockingly coming by the end of the week, barring any more foul-ups like the ones which have plagued the whole process.

So I'm writing at the moment in a library, letting you know, for reals this time, that regular posting will resume soon. I'll queue up a post or two before I leave, and I can promise that Superman Sunday will return again in time for Independence Day.

In the meantime, how about that Doctor Who finale that I haven't seen yet because Americans have no way of accessing it? Won't it have been a spectacular end to a pretty awesome series? And I will have loved the way that, even though it will have been just a little bit deus ex machina-y, it works in a way that fits with the story (and overall arc), is layed down fairly logically throughout the episode, and doesn't really slap you over the head with it. Plus, it's bloody brilliant. Matt Smith is well on his way to eclipsing other recent Doctors in terms of owning and defining the role, and I think anyone who still has reservations about his performance is just being stubborn at this point. I'm sure I'll be chomping at the bit for the Christmas Special, which, if it will follow on from the end of the finale (that I haven't yet seen, of course) will be totally awesome.

So, what will you have thought about it?

Winding down

It's been a whirlwind week or two. I've been swamped with work, I've been traveling, and I've just committed to a new apartment. That being said, things are finally coming to a close, and the summer will open up vast new vistas of time. "Superman Sundays" was a relatively ambitious project to start at this point in my job, and I'm going to use some of my free time this week to bank some posts on that front (there's some really interesting bits coming up, I promise!).

So, regular posting will resume soonly! In the meantime, d'ya think I should put my Twitter feed back in the sidebar? I removed it mostly because it runs a little more blue than I usually allow on this page. But if people are interested, I'll pop it back up there.

One more delay

Sorry folks. Had a family emergency and a ton of work this weekend. Superman Sunday will return on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Supermonth: Never-Ending

So, over the double-sized Supermonth, I managed to get out almost a month's worth of Superman posts. I didn't quite get to everything I wanted, and real life got in the way a little (computer issues, money issues, traveling, and I just started student teaching and working again), but it's time to bring Supermonth to a close. Which isn't to say that I'm done with Superman posting in the foreseeable future, by any means. I still plan on getting to the last post or two in the video game series, and I've got a stack of old Superman comics awaiting review on my desk, plus an essay on Mr. Mxyzptlk's character development and a few notes about how much I wish "Smallville" were more like "Superboy." There's more than a month worth of the Man of Steel, and I think I've drawn out his 70th birthday celebration long enough. Thanks for sticking around!

Supermonth: Incommunicado

Sorry for the silence. I'm blogging at a Borders in the 20 minutes before they close. I got stuck out of town unexpectedly, and I don't have Internet access at the place where I'm staying.

Which isn't to say that I'm not reading and writing up stuff for posting. There'll be a flurry of posts tomorrow, methinks.