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Dave at Yet Another Comics Blog is having the best Free Comic Book Day giveaway ever. Not content with a mere 24 hours of free comics, he's giving away a free comic every day for the entire month of May! (Now that's promoting comics right there.)

Thanks to the magic of the internets, I've almost caught up with the UK on episodes of Doctor Who. (It's probably not giving away the store to mention the site right now features a Dalek. And some really good sound clips that are crying out for remixes.)

When I was a young DougBot growing up in the Midwest, the Doctor and his companions ruled Friday nights on Iowa Public Television. The one summer I really remember watching was devoted entirely to Davros episodes, so I'm fairly grounded in battles between the Doctor and this particular nemesis. The last episode with Sylvester McCoy had the mighty Special Weapons Dalek, which is probably my favorite Dalek ever.

Watching Eccleston's Doctor and his companion Rose has been a treat. I do not understand why the Sci-Fi Channel decided to give it a pass—though as I have imagined before it's to save money for more pieces of dreck like Mansquito. There is some slight hope that BBC America will bring it over, but considering what surgery they have to do on MI-5 to retrofit American commercial breaks in it, that may be better if they pass as well.