Back from a long weekend, and lots of AiT-related stuff to report:

Augie De Blieck, Jr. reviews the Demo scriptbook in his latest Pipeline column. I knew ol' Aug would like it, as he's as much of a process junkie as I am; what I was surprised to see is that the scripts made him appreciate Becky's genius all the more: "Cloonan, the artist, turns out to be the real star of the series after reading the book of scripts by Wood, the writer."

Speaking of Becky, she was named "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition" by the folks over at Ninth Art. Special thanks to Matt Craig, and to Tom Owen for pointing this out to me.

Just saw that Brian Domingos wrote about Proof of Concept's production values: "...it’s printed on glossy paper, which is Larry Young-awesome." Domingos also gave Best-of-year nods to 1000 Steps to World Domination, Hench, and Ursula.

Over on Kevin Smith's MoviePoopshoot.com, "Should it Be a Movie?" columnist Marc Mason thoroughly reads through Proof of Concept and answers his column's titular question. He likes "Hemogoblin" and "For the Time Being" for episodic television, and "Zombie Dinosaur" for theatrical release: "Zombie Dinosaur springs full-force from both script and graphic page. The idea is so ridiculously obvious you can’t help but wonder why no one has spent $120 million on getting it to the screen already."

Tom Spurgeon, Comics Reporter, gave us the nod as "Winner of the Week."

Johnny B comments on the complete and utter take-over of online comics sales by me and Kirkman and Bri Wood.

I always enjoy Bill Sherman's reviews of our work, because it seems he actually gets a kick out of our little confections, and this time his review of Proof of Concept doesn't disappoint: "'Emancipating Lincoln,' which posits a future world inhabited by Lincoln clones, is written in proto-hardboiled narration by its detective hero Henderson and has a wiggy enough premise (two Lincoln clones are inspired to uncover the secret behind their creation when one of them comes across a five dollar bill with the original's picture on it) that makes you go, 'How's Young gonna write himself out of this one?'"

...and Erin Schadt, The Comic Queen, rolls her royal visage along Proof of Concept and finds it "quite interesting." "I enjoyed this romp through Young’s imagination. It is, after all, quite an imagination." I don't think there is anyone who'd disagree with that.