Here’s wishing all my readers a very Merry Christmas! Hope Santa brings you something nice!

Mrs Earth-Prime and I saw this last night and it’s really good; if this is the final Tom Holland/MCU Spidey film, it’s a fitting end. Fear not – there are no spoilers here.

It’s the first time I’ve heard a cinema audience whoop, clap, and cheer at the appearance of a character on screen (trust me – British cinema audiences are a lot more reserved than Americans) but it was well deserved. And then it happened again!

The film has a lot going on, much of which is sort of dependent on you having watched the previous Spider-Man franchises, although there’s enough of a hand-wavey-multiverse explanation that even if you don’t remember them all, there’s the right amount of exposition to carry you along.

There’s a couple of nice throw aways in there, especially one in the first ten minutes or so, and there’s the usual mid-credits scene – this one will please those of us who saw Venom: Let There Be Carnage – and there’s a longer post-credits scene that makes me glad I watched not only Wandavision, but also Loki and, perhaps most surprisingly, What If…

Certainly worth a watch.

I’ve been running this site for a number of years now – seven years on the original Blogger platform, and now just over six here at WordPress and there’s still no end in sight.

I originally started on the free version of WordPress but quickly upgraded my plan to get rid of the annoying ads that were cropping up – I hate advertising which is part of the reason I won’t use social media. All those massive companies scraping up personal data from me to target ads and get rich off my content while I get nothing at all. Nope, not playing.

The cost of the site and the domain name isn’t going to break me, but as I continue with my annotations, I’ve ended up buying a whole load of back issues that I otherwise wouldn’t have picked up – seriously, who else owns the entire run of MILLENNIUM and all the tie in issues?

With that in mind, I thought it would be nice to get something back from visitors, if they wish to donate. I will not now or ever make this a paid membership site that hides content away from users unless they cough up. Nor do I want to go down the Patreon route as that puts pressure on me to come up with some sort of special or exclusive content and, to be honest, I’m happy just half-arsing around and doing what I feel like.

So what I’ve done is add a Buy Me A Coffee button on the right-hand side which accepts one-off payments of 5, 15, or even a massive 25 GB Pounds so if anyone fancies throwing me a few quid, click the button and feel free. Entirely up to you – I’ll still be here, doing what I always do even if no-one donates anything. 🙂

(And at some point, I’ll change that button to something like Buy Me A Comic!)

By the time you read this, I shall be in the local hospital waiting to have an operation. It’s nothing major but will be my first dose of a general anaesthetic ever. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve never had an operation before; never broken a bone; or even had an overnight stay in hospital.

I’m likely to be out of there on the same day as well, but recovery will mean no access to a PC for a while so feel free to leave some comments (Dale and Calvin, I’m looking at you, but anyone else can join in) but I won’t be able to approve them for a while.

Regular posts are scheduled so I’ll catch up with you soon.