Arriving 5/3

Yet another sick week here -- this time it wasn't me though, it was Ben. Poor little guy. It started last Tuesday when something in his jaw swelled up like a golfball ("bacterial infection of the salivary gland" was the Dr's best guess -- though he was scared it could be Mumps, despite Ben being immunized). There is nothing in the universe -- NOTHING -- worse than a sick kid. Someone who is normally vivacious, and curious and loving and enthusiastic suddenly just sitting there like a lump, moaning in pain, where's there's virtually nothing you can actually DO for them.

It REALLY stinks.

Well, we put Ben on antibiotics, and wouldn't you know it, though it was very effective in making his cheek swelling go down, it ALSO killed all of the "good" bacteria in his belly, which gave us 4 solid days of diarrhea, which ain't no fun either. The worst part is that he didn't want to eat or drink ANYthing, and there is a serious risk of dehydration (like, to the point of hospitalization) if fluid comes out and out and out, and nothing goes back in. So we had to pin him down and FORCE him to eat yogurt and drink pedialyte. It is seriously no fun to have to force your baby that way, but the alternative is, what? needles at the hospital?

Anyway, as of this morning, Ben is back to normal (hurray!), but that's why I didn't write reviews last week. Well, actually, I did write some, but they were too hostile and whiny -- even for me! -- so I sent them off to the recycling bin.

Here's what's shipping this week:

2000 AD #1482 2000 AD #1483 A G SUPER EROTIC ANTHOLOGY #33 (A) ACTION COMICS #838 ALICE IN WONDERLAND #4 (OF 4) ANNIHILATION SILVER SURFER #2(OF 4) ARCHENEMIES #2 (OF 4) ARCHIE & FRIENDS #100 ARCHIE DIGEST #225 ATOMIKA #7 (OF 12) BATMAN JOURNEY INTO KNIGHT #9(OF 12) BLOOD OF THE DEMON #15 BOOK OF SHADOWS #2 (OF 2) BPRD UNIVERSAL MACHINE #2 (OF5) CITY OF HEROES #13 CIVIL WAR #1 (OF 7) DETECTIVE COMICS #819 DOC SAMSON #5 (OF 5) EXILES #80 EXTERMINATORS #5 FEAR THE DEAD ZOMBIE SURVIVORS JOURNAL FLUFFY #4 (OF 4) FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD SPIDER-MAN #8 FURY PEACEMAKER #4 (OF 6) HARD TIME SEASON TWO #6 HAUNTED MANSION #3 INFINITE CRISIS #7 (OF 7) JOE LANSDALES DRIVE IN VOL 2 #1 (OF 4) JSA #85 JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #244 JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED #21 LOONEY TUNES #138 LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #16 MARSHAL #1 (OF 4) MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #15 MARVEL ROMANCE REDUX I SHOULDHAVE BEEN A BLONDE MARVEL TEAM-UP #20 MIDDLEMAN VOL 2 #3 SINO-MEXICAN REVELATION MOUSE GUARD #2 NECROMANCER #5 NEIL GAIMANS NEVERWHERE #7 (OF 9) NOBLE BOY ONE SHOT OUTSIDERS #36 PUNISHER #33 RAYMOND E FEIST MAGICIAN APPRENTICE #1 BOOTH CVR REVOLUTION ON THE PLANET OF THE APES #4 (OF 6) REX LIBRIS #4 ROBOTIKA #3 ROCKETO JOURNEY TO THE HIDDENSEA #7 SEA OF RED #9 SEASON OF THE WITCH #4 (OF 4) SENTINEL SQUAD ONE #5 (OF 5) SHADOWHAWK #11 SONIC X #8 SPIDER-MAN UNLIMITED #15 STRANGE GIRL #8 SUPERGIRL #6 SWAMP THING #27 TEAM ZERO #6 (OF 6) TEEN TITANS #35 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #94 UNDERWORLD #4 (OF 5) WAR OF THE WORLDS SECOND WAVE #2 WORMWOOD GENTLEMAN CORPSE THETASTER X-MEN APOCALYPSE DRACULA #4 (OF 4) X-MEN THE END MEN AND X-MEN #5 (OF 6) Y THE LAST MAN #45

Book / Mag / Stuff ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL TP BIZARRO WORLD SC COMPLETE PEANUTS VOL 5 1959-1960 HC CONCRETE THE HUMAN DILEMMA TP DRAGONLANCE CHRONICLES VOL 1 DRAGONS OF AUTUMN TWILIGHT TP ESSENTIAL CLASSIC X-MEN VOL 2TP FORTEAN TIMES #209 GOTHAM CENTRAL VOL 3 UNRESOLVED TARGETS TP HULK VISIONARIES PETER DAVID VOL 3 TP JAMES BOND GOLDEN GHOST TP JIMBOS INFERNO HC JUDGE DREDD COMPLETE CASE FILES VOL 3 TP LULLABIES FROM HELL VOL 1 TP MICHAEL CHABON PRESENTS ADV O/T ESCAPIST VOL 3 TP NUDE MAGAZINE #8 PUNISHER MAX VOL 5 THE SLAVERS TP SAM & TWITCH BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS COLLECTION VOL 1 TP SANDMAN MYSTERY THEATRE VOL 4THE SCORPION TP SEX ROCK & OPTICAL ILLUSIONS HC SUPERMAN JUMBO COLOR AND ACTIVITY BOOK SWARM VOL 2 GN (A) TEZUKAS BUDDHA VOL 1 TP TRUE LOVES VOL 1 GN ULTIMATE X-MEN FANTASTIC FOURTP UNCANNY X-MEN OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC VAMPIRELLA WITCHBLADE TRILOGYTP WONDER WOMAN SYMBOL T/S YAOI HENTAI VOL 2 GN (A) YEAST HOIST 12 GN

What looks good, what are you getting?

-B