Randy Lander over at The Fourth Rail gives Couriers 03: The Ballad of Johnny Funwrecker a 9/10 with such choice morsels as "There are some stylistic touches to The Couriers that I really got a big kick out of in this particular volume as well... The little RPG reference to 'stats' during training cracked me up, and I liked that there was a little easter egg for fans of Couscous Express who catch a certain little girl peeking out behind the counter at her future boyfriend." and "The Couriers is pretty impressive in that it contains untold inside jokes for the faithful, but is still a remarkably accessible read for those who have never read it before."

Manolis Vamvounis sends word over that he's selected Demo as the Number One Indie Book of the Year. "It doesn’t occur often to me, to find a comic book that I want to read and re-read until the pages fall apart. Demo is such a book." and "Becky Cloonan impressed me with each project by showing how truly versatile she is, adapting her pencilling and inking style to fit the mood of each story, changing from wild broad strokes to smooth manga curves and refined bold lines."

Carbonated Ink digs on the new CZ cover, pointed out to you amongst this great blogosphereiverse of ours. Denizens will note appearances elsewhere, of course, since we attempt to let everyone know. CI says: "Every time I re-read it, it moves me even more. It gives me ideas. It makes me pissed. I want to do stuff, hack radiowave transmissions, whatever. This urge doesn’t go away easily."

"I applaud AiT/Planet Lar for their continued commitment to diversity."

Laura Gjovaag on the Demo scriptbook: "As usual, AiT/Planet Lar comes through with an unexpected compliment to the series. Demo, as many of you know, stands alone quite well. In fact, pretty much each issue stands alone just fine. I didn't think this book could improve on the series at all. I'm happy to report that I was wrong."

The ordinarily even-keeled Tom Spurgeon goes nuts with praise with his review of the Demo scriptbook: "The Demo Scriptbook is fine model for a very dialogue-oriented method to comics writing, and is something every starting-out comic book writer should track down and consider purchasing. "

H over at the Comic Treadmill seemed to dig on the Couriers 03 : "Notwithstanding the same character type for protagonists, this couldn’t be more different than Demo. Wood cuts loose and clearly had a blast writing this violent black comedy. Who knew he had it in him? Demo was serious business. This is all fun. Both are good reads. Demo has the stories that stick with you longer. But Couriers kept me grinning from Funwrecker’s first appearance on the scene through the final panel. A thoroughly enjoyable romp."

I know Bri and Rob G're my pals and I personally killed the trees to put this one in your hands, and all, but "Comedy in a modern comic book is always a tricky business to write and black comedy is even trickier, but Wood pulls it off ..." is a review I would write of this one, too, and that's a fact.

Sean Maher digs on an advance copy of Couriers 03. I may drop off a CCX poster for him over at the Isotope for singing the song.