There is a certain site I know of that has a critic that LOVES to attack and rip to shreds issues by reading nearly every book that comes out from his LCS in California. When OMD came out, all he said was:

“Something bad got into the Kool Aid at 417 Fifth Avenue this week too.”

Then that site did a five part interview with the EiC, using such softball questions that it should have been called “Pardon the Teabagging”. It felt like things couldn’t have been more intimate if they had been held in a secluded room in a private yacht in San Diego over the summer.

Weeks later, it is finally reviewed somewhere on the site…and by a creator who works at a different company that all responsibility for can be shrugged off.

A site that is THAT far in the pocket of publisher still has people viewing it occasionally? Can’t Believe Readers, I guess. ;) Why Land your browser at a site like that when they don’t even provide a thread to honestly discuss the article?

Update: Not that I doubt the fella, but I’m guessing that unethical book shredder (who posted details about how he was supposed to have edited the book he was reviewing) has started hearing whispers:

Before you ask, Diamond shorted Comics Ink their entire order of “Amazing Spider-Man” #547. No shipment means no sales which means no review. Sorry.

People must be hounding him.

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