Tikkabik

Free Comic Book Day (last Saturday) was a wash-out for us because the place we went to has gone out of business in the last month or so, since the last time we drove by there -- quite sad, papered-over windows with no "We've moved to" sign on the door, so I guess they've gone kaput.

So instead we took the kids to see Spider-Man 2 -- I figured a comic book movie would be the next best thing. And indeed it was. We went to the local theater in Mashpee, which we haven't been to in a while -- we prefer to go to Hyannis, where they have a theater with really big screens and stadium seating, and if we're sticking nearby we usually drive to a cinema in Sandwich that's just a hop, skip and a jump away from us that's small but very well-appointed. The Mashpee theater -- a Regal franchise -- worked out just fine, and the kids loved the movie.

For what it's worth, I though Spider-Man 2 was *excellent:* Every bit as good as its predecessor, and in many respects, better. In fact, outside of Batman and Batman Returns, I'm having a lot of trouble thinking of a movie based on a comic book that I like better.

So there it is. Thumbs up.