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One of my favorite things about this job is meeting with professionals in the industry who clearly love the format. It's not just authors and illustrators, either. Publicists in the field are so passionate about what they do that it makes for great conversation about a lot more than just the titles that they are representing. Meeting with so many of them at New York Comic-Con was a great opportunity to make new connections...and I'm looking forward to making even more at San Diego Comic-Con this summer. Have you made your plans to go? Hotels are filling up already, so get on it if you haven't already.

So, did you go see Watchmen? That is the question everyone seems to be asking lately, isn’t it? I went to see it last week with Carol and had so much fun talking about it afterward. Both of us stood outside the theater for a good 15 minutes on a freezing cold Manhattan night (seriously, it was really, really cold) before one of us thought to ask, “Do you want to find a place where we can grab a cup of coffee and have this discussion inside?!”

It’s been a busy time in comics lately, and I’ve been having several opportunities to geek out. First up: Tomorrow night I’m going to see an advance screening of Watchmen, which opens in theaters on Friday! How long have we all been waiting for this one? It feels like forever, but it’s finally here. Expect a spoiler-free review to be posted on the site next week after I’ve seen it. I confess, I am an über-Watchmen fan, and I am going with Carol, who is reading Watchmen for the first time. It will be interesting to see her take and compare it to mine. One of our goals on the site is to create content that appeals to those who have been reading the format for years, as well as for new readers, and everyone in between. Through it all, we want everyone who reads the site to feel represented and like they have a home on the site.