For those of you avidly hitting refresh, we’ll be recording the podcast tomorrow evening.  at the start of the week and it’ll probably be up on Tuesday.  (Busy weekend…)

(Edited for… well, accuracy.)

Well, so much for probably getting a chart post done earlier in the week…

Fortunately, things should now be getting back to normal (ish), so here’s the plan: podcast tomorrow, reviews catching up over the next week or so, wrestling preview coming up, charts catch-up at some point too.

Honest.

No reviews this week. Haven’t received the books yet and I’m terribly busy anyway. Probably a chart post at the start of the week, and we’ll be back with comics with a podcast and X-Axis post next weekend.

As suspected, no reviews tonight. (Been out of town all weekend, didn’t get a chance to pick up this week’s books before I left.) Hopefully early next week.

Infinite Comics… well, that’s, uh, more gimmicky than I was expecting. (Though online “DVD extras” aren’t a bad idea, on the right project.)

Just a heads up that the next episode of the podcast is going to be pushed back a week, so it’ll (hopefully) be up on the 17th.  One of those “no time to record it” things – though it means we’ll also be able to talk about this Infinite Comics thing Marvel are announcing on Sunday, whatever it may turn out to be.

(Reviews probably won’t be up until Monday either, although you never know.)

Since it’s going to be woefully stale news by the time we reach the next podcast, I’ll throw out a few thoughts on this one now.

If you haven’t seen the official announcement, a brief summary: DC has announced a line of seven interconnected Watchmen prequel miniseries to ship this summer.  There are some pretty respectable creators on there – Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, Adam Hughes, JG Jones.  Some would argue that J Michael Straczynski still counts, though I find most of his recent comics work toxically smug.

Needless to say, fandom is incensed.

There are broadly two strands to that reaction.  The first is to do with the widely-held view that DC has generally screwed Alan Moore in relation to Watchmen, which is old territory, and not something I’m inclined to go over here.  And the other aspect can best be summarised as “For god’s sake, why?”

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I’m not getting the X-books till Monday, so no reviews this weekend.  I’m going to decorate the tree instead.  Hopefully I’ll do something early next week.

Check below for this week’s podcast, though!

Just so you know, no X-Axis this weekend – I won’t get the books until Monday.

We will, however, have a wrestling preview on Sunday night!

Every year the charts needs at least a couple of token slow number 1s – hell, mid-pace will do – and this is one of those weeks.  The fourth new number one in as many weeks (there’ll be a fifth on Sunday) is “Don’t Go” by Wretch 32 featuring Josh Kumra.

Isn’t that nice?  Okay, lyrically it’s a fairly standard moan about his love life, but musically it’s one of the better number one singles of the year.  Nice and laid back.  Lovely hook.

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Death has a way of prompting people to pick up a singer’s back catalogue, and so this week sees the inevitable Amy Winehouse memorial chart.  She’s at number 1 on the album chart with “Back To Black”, while debut album “Frank” reappears at 5, and the double-album combined reissue is at 10 – thus giving her three top ten albums even though she only made two.

But with plenty of songs to choose from, her singles sales have been split multiple ways.  And so it is that, unnoticed and largely unloved, JLS still get their scheduled number 1, with “She Makes Me Wanna.”

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