With heavy heart!

 Week Ending 22rd September 1976

Except it won't be, at least for a while.

It was for nearly four years, on the 2rd October 2022 that the Power of the Beesting started a weekly look at British Marvel comics from fifty years ago, starting with the Mighty World of Marvel #1, only to be joined by Spider-man Comics Weekly #1, nineteen weeks later. In less than a year from MWOM #1 the Avengers weekly makes three. Just over a year after that two more weeklies joined the line up, Dracula Lives and the Planet of the Apes. Twenty weeks later the Super-Heroes and the Savage Sword of Conan came making it seven comics per week. It was tough but I managed it each and every week. It was hard but I got there. Conan joined the Avengers making it six comics a week. Eleven months later The Titans made it seven again. If you're a British Marvel comics fan, or if you've read the Week Ending blogs you would know that the Super-Heroes merged with Spider-man Comics Weekly and Planet of the Apes teamed up with Dracula Lives. 207 Week Ending blogs! I loved the variety. They've all been brilliant! It's been a joy doing them. But I need to take a breather.

So with a heavy heart I feel like I need a break, so that I can do the things that made me love comics in the first place, mainly reading them.

Now is a weird time to take a break, with some interesting new comics just on the horizon. Of late each new blog has been getting on average around 200 views in its first week. Last month the blog had 19653 views. At the time of writing the blog has had 254944 views over all. But this blog is taking up a lot of my spare time. I have a full time job anyway, with most of my free time being spent on the blog life has become hectic lately, meaning that the blog is getting harder to do. I try to finish the blog on Sunday evening but over the last six week's I've been up after midnight, last week I went to sleep at 1.30 am on Monday morning. I also need to spend some time helping my family with an important phase in their life. Nothing too serious, I just need to be there and support them. 

I started this blog to read the weeklies each week and review them, sharing the fifty year old nostalgia with like minded friends. Part of the joy was reading the issues to be reviewed, but of late I haven't had the time to read those weeklies, which has been a real shame as well has making it harder to research those mags. The process just hasn't been flowing which has made it harder for me and lessened the joy of it.

I'll like to thank all the people who have joined in with the blog, the Friends of the Beesting who have made it worth it and a joy, whether they were just regular readers or those who commented regularly on the blog, like Colin Jones, Dangermash, Paul B, Mark Lotinga, Rod Tough and many more. Those who passed on the blog like Pete Hendy on Twitter and Steve W from the Steve Does Comics blog. In fact if you're missing the Power of the Beesting Week Ending blog check out Steve's blog, it's great. The biggest thanks have to be saved for my brother, Andrew. His help was pivotal in getting the blog out every week, his morale kept me going and if not for him over fifty years ago I might not have gotten my love for comics.   

It's not the end, only a break, I'm hoping to start the weekly Week Ending reviews up again, when it feels like the right time. In the mean time I plan to do some one-off specials. I'll not say what they are just yet, you might have guessed that one will be celebrating a certain British icon.

So until next time, I won't be seeing you in seven, but hopefully very soon.

Make Mine Marvel