Doug: Earlier this fall, Karen and I were debating what to do with our schedule as we'd made up our mind that we were going to take a vacation in January. For those of you who look up and down the sidebar, you know that we have sort of a "coming soon" feature. A long time ago we announced about six months worth of stories or topics that we were going to review. As it became obvious that December was going to be an issue in filling the Mondays as we do with our partner reviews (we didn't want to be stuck in the middle of a storyline as January dawned), I asked if we could do a couple of Christmas comics. Of course, nothing really leapt immediately to mind; about the only one I could come up with off the top of my head was the Spidey/Stegron/Lizard clash that ran in
Amazing Spider-Man #'s 165-166. Later, I recalled that an early
Marvel Team-Up was set over Christmas.
Doug: Since we nixed the idea, at least for this year, I thought we could at least throw this out there to our readers and perhaps get some suggestions that we might use next year or even later. You know we do up Halloween pretty big around here each year, but I don't know that we've ever really hit on another holiday with a comic review. So what do you know of that is maybe a favorite Bronze-era story of yours? Of course there are no guarantees that either Karen or I would have a particular book that gets nominated, but hey -- shopping is fun, and who knows? You might inspire us!