My reddit gift arrived today, much before the annonymous message my arbitor hinted that it would. Inside the package were two books from Amazon: BLACK ORCHID by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean and UNDERSTANDING COMICS: THE INVISIBLE ART by Scott McCloud.

I'm a bit baffled by this, but I'm assuming my arbitor noticed how often I post comments in /r/comics - although I'm really only a casual viewer. In other news, I'm really getting into Neil Gaiman lately, after watching and reading Coraline and then most of Neverwhere before I lost it somewhere. Also I've just re-read Watchmen so I'm in a comic/graphicnovel kind of mood any way. Though these last two points weren't posted over at reddit (I don't think)... so my present really is a neat surprise which I'm looking forward to getting into.