Pointing you to the reviews on the comicsblogosphereiverse:
Pop Culture Gadabout Bill Sherman has an insightful look at 1000 Steps to World Domination. I particularly liked this bit: "Flitting between dreams of artistic grandeur and more rueful ruminations on the daily work grind, 1000 Steps tells a recognizable story: the struggles of the young artist as they prepare to head on the 'Less Traveled' road of supporting themselves through their art. Osborne takes on a variety of personas from within his studio... dressing in a suit or eye patch, periodically imagining himself as a frustrated alien stuck doing anal probes instead of invading the earth."
I love it when a reader gets what's going on in a book, and doesn't take things quite so literally, like, say, this blog I ran across by Todd C. Murry: "Demo #10 -- The most interesting thing this issue is trying to figure out what the 'power' is this issue, or why it is that this issue alone in the series lacks one."
Ooops.
Speaking of stuff I just ran across, I just found a blog where someone berates me personally for not send him "free comics" because his blog gets around "300 visitors a month" and that's just a treasure trove of new readers.
Leaving aside his audience I'm not hitting, I gotta point out that the books I send out absolutely are not "free comics." They cost me money to print, and they cost me money to send, and, frankly, they cost me a lot of free time to put in the friggin' envelope. So if you get a review copy of an AiT book from me, it's because I respect your personal opinion, whether or not you end up liking that individual book or not. So you've got that going for you. Which is nice.
Which reminds me: you know who is awesome? Maureen McTigue. That is all.
Huge shout-out to Celina Hernandez, who wins the "Nicest Email I got Today" award, by sending me a neat pic of her with her signed copy of 1000 Steps I sent her:
...and today's Backlist Pointer is Johnny Dynamite by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty: "The Wild Man from Chicago! He's rough! He's tough! He's JOHNNY DYNAMITE! A rock 'em/sock 'em private eye from the Windy City, with his best gal, and faithful secretary, Judy Kane, by his side, in this hard-boiled Mike Hammer-influenced story, Johnny's back in a psychotronic/occult/period piece fighting zombies with crime on their undead minds!"
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