Everything’s ready to rock. Showered, coifed in 2006’s Blogathon shirt (they didn’t release one this year until this week, alas), coffee made and poured, materials sorted, everything’s a go, go, go.
The plan is to have my little timer set on the 5-minutes-of mark, to finish up posts before they need to be made.
All Official ‘Thon posts will be preceded by “BT09” for this year (there’s a search link for those in the sidebar) and have a “#blogathon” hashtag in the title, too (since the titles get echoed to Twitter).
I am, as I have said, blogging on behalf of Denver Dumb Friends League, our local animal shelter. I have a note to write a bit more about them as a “break” during the ‘Thon.
My blogging “theme,” though, is comic books — in particular, reviews of comic books, graphic novels, trade paperback collections, etc., along with some side issues that may be of interest. I’m a fairly avid comics reader (more on that in another post, too); my acquisitions have slowed a bit, but since I didn’t do last year’s ‘Thon, I have a couple years worth of material to work from. That should be plenty.
My reviews will be pretty straightforward — rating the quality of the writing, the art, a book’s suitability for new readers of the title, and a book’s suitability for a non-comics reader (i.e., could you pass this on to your SO as a “gateway drug” to share some of your passion for comics).
And … here we go!