This was quite flattering: "Publishers both big and small might do well to take a tip from comics publishing wherein relentless huckstering, flim-flam and own-trumpet blowing is all par for the course. Both the 'big two' and all the smaller presses (AiT/Planet Lar being a great example) use every means known to man to promote their products (both upcoming and backlist) to the audience. To be fair, this is principally an online promotional effort but, from the previous comments, that's where we're all looking to find our new stuff anyway..."

For the nine thousand emails I've gotten about this already today, Couriers 03: The Ballad of Johnny Funwrecker would have ended up between VAGABOND VOL 18 TP and STRANGERS IN PARADISE VOL 4 POCKET TP on the ICv2 list of top 100 graphic novels for January. No, I don't know why it's not on the list.

Tom The Dog digs on the Scurv's "fantastic package." Mrs. Beechen will be happy with this line: "I was laughing out loud just at the foreword." while Mrs. Yount will like: "And finally, you can't beat the price -- $12.95, which is a real steal, these days. Try to tell me $12.95 isn't worth seeing a gasoline-drinking Rod Stewart carrying around Dr. Theopolis like Twiki from Buck Rogers. Just try!"

H over at The Comic Treadmill does something hilarious, as befitting the warped humor of Scurvy Dogs: he assembles his own pirated review from other Scurv reviews on the Internet. Whether his editing prowess is so mighty or that the Scurv hits the same notes with everyone, but the spray of collected accolades reads much less Frankensteinian than you'd think. Maybe it's just what I've long suspected: Graeme McMillan writes every comics review on the web.