Seth Godin is The Man. While comics people surf around comics sites and columns to see what everyone else is doing in comics, yielding an incestuous downward spiral of self-referential hoo-hah, I'm memorizing Godin's pronouncements every day. "2004 and 2005 are the years that the magazines of the future were/are born," Godin writes. "And those magazines are unlikely to be print publications that figured out how to make it online. Instead, the new winners will be publications that figured out how to do what this medium is good at, instead of trying to protect a dying medium instead." Words to live by. Every day.

Graeme McMillan, over at Fanboy Rampage, links to Josh Richardson's In the Trenches observations over at Millarworld. Astute readers will note the exclusive five page .pdf preview of Filler that Richardson somehow finagled out of me.

Mike Sterling (I should really start calling him "Pal Mike"), gives the Demo scriptbook a nice nod: "...an attractive package, as we've come to expect from AiT/Planet Lar."

...and in another in the seemingly endless my-mother-my-sister-my-mother-my-sister Chinatown moments that make up the experience of reading The Comics Journal nowadays: True Story Swear to God: Chances Are... (which had been called "practically the definition of a minor work" in issue #260 by Pal Spurge a mere five issues later gets a lovingly caressed two-page review by comics historian R. C. Harvey in which the quote "But the triumph of the uncluttered purity of Beland's style is achieved in the faces of his characters" is indicative of the rest of the review.

And people wonder why Tommy is so unhinged on the TCJ message boards.