Greetings to all whose Internet usage declined somewhat during the holiday break. Here are some reviews I posted during that time that you may have missed.

* Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! by Art Spiegelman

* The Best of the Spirit by Will Eisner

* ACME Novelty Library #19 by Chris Ware

* Twilight directed by Catherine Hardwicke

* Let the Right One In directed by Tomas Alfredson

* ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

* a discussion of event comics crticism centered on Grant Morrison’s Final Crisis and Batman: R.I.P.–check out the comment thread for thoughts from Tom Spurgeon, Tucker Stone, Tim O’Neil, Matthew Perpetua, Marc-Oliver Frisch, Bruce Baugh, Jon Hastings, Kiel Phegley, Ben Morse, Shaggy Erwin, Sean B. and more, I think

The posting of that Spirit review marked the successful completion of one full year of Comics Time comic book reviews going up on this blog every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, without fail. I’m proud to have done what I set out to do a year ago. I had a lot of fun reading that many comics, and perhaps to my surprise I had a lot of fun writing about that many comics, too. I’m certainly a better comics writer than I was when I started, and I think the blog is better overall. For this I’d like to thank all my readers, particularly those who emailed or posted comments. I’d also like to thank all the publishers who generously donated review copies.

In the New Year I don’t think I’ll be reviewing comics with this same level of regularity. Prose books beckon, as do sizable runs of comics that are hard to fit into your schedule when you’ve got to have three reviews up a week. That said, you’ll see some backlog reviews popping up in the regular slots for a little while, and chances are good that if I read a substantial comic, it’s gonna get reviewed here on the blog. (The occasional insubstantial comic will be thrown in for good measure.) I’m going to work my way through the remaining 2008 notables in time to put up a semi-timely Best of 2008 list of some kind as well. But for now, a leisurely re-read of Ed Brubaker’s Captain America run beckons…

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