I didn’t intend to take an entire week off from here, but it worked out that way for various reasons. Being a parent certainly keeps life interesting. For now I have a few tidbits to share:

Orders for the new Buffy comic (Season 8) have exceeded the first printing of 100,000. A second printing is coming.

I thought Jasper Fforde was done with Tuesday Next, but a new sequel arrives in July.

The L.A. Times details the trail of a thief who stole two violins from the house of a Los Angeles Philharmonic violinist on December 23rd. He flew to Europe with his dog intending to sell the violins and live off his profits. Dealers in a Paris violin shop, suspicious of this guy’s story, checked the Internet and found the instruments had been stolen.