The time yawns before us like a chasm. One thing I’ve done to help kill it while my wife reads her way through the entire Twilight series in as close to one sitting as she can manage and I bounce back and forth between farting around on the Internet and re-reading World War Z for the third time and generally putting off reading any of the several intimidating comics anthologies I really ought to be reading and reviewing for thishyere website is peruse Tom Spurgeon’s excellent 2008 Holiday Shopping Guide, which is at least as much of a gift as most of the stuff it lists.