Comments on: PR: What Not to Do: Insulting Those You Want to Help You

By: Johanna

Johanna — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:29:42 +0000

Update: Apparently the poor reaction had an effect. There have been no other reviews posted at the site since the first one.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:33:13 +0000

Okay, as I’m not very computer literate, I’ll concede that I may be reading more into it than what it is.

This site lists 9 cookies, with one being from clockwork-comics.com.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:06:26 +0000

I’m with David. I don’t think that means what you think it means. For one thing, cookies are stored with the user. I don’t know why a site would have a list of cookies.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:26:40 +0000

david brothers–

That doesn’t seem to be so. I’ve never been to at least 3 of those sites. And with the number of sites I visit every week, there should be many, many more. If I go to another Blogger site, I get a completely different list. For instance, there is no cookie for Comics Worth Reading.

By: Ed Sizemore

Ed Sizemore — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:38:40 +0000

Thorn,

Only professional reviewers get pseudonyms. Us amateurs have to us our real name. It’s a union thing ;-)

By: david brothers

david brothers — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:38:50 +0000

That’s actually just a list of sites you’ve visited, rather than some kind of inside info on the creator of the blog.

By: Alan Coil

Alan Coil — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:40:49 +0000

Johanna, that’s funny!

Go to the site. Do a Right Click (Alt Click) on the page. Click on View Page Info. Click on More. Click on View Cookies.

If you look at the Cookies list, you’ll see a lot of familiar sites listed. One of them is a person type name, but that doesn’t mean it is that person. But the list of other Cookies sure is a clue as to where the site came from.

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:30:27 +0000

I need to get into this reviewing business so I can have a pseudonym…something like.. Pappy Longbottoms.

“Captain Reviewer”
This would inspire nothing but confidence. I mean, you have to be good at reviewing if you make it to *captain* right?!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:56:23 +0000

All at once? That’s quite a roundtable!

I only have two reviewing personas: me, and me after a glass of wine.

By: Tom Spurgeon

Tom Spurgeon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:51:11 +0000

I don’t get it, I thought Jess Lemon was Douglas Wolk, not a fictional construct. Did Doug write those in character?

I’m going to write all my reviews from now on as five different characters: Kevin the Intern, Captain Reviewer, Mr. Poodles, John Gielgud’s character from Arthur and John Gielgud’s character from Brideshead Revisited.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:50:44 +0000

Oooh, accountability, that’s an excellent point I didn’t really touch on. Sometimes worrying what people will think is a good thing that keeps conversation civilized.

By: Jennifer de Guzman

Jennifer de Guzman — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:17:40 +0000

I received this email, too — so maybe it went out to publishers, too. I thought it was annoying, and I am not inclined to send review copies or pay attention to an anonymous reviewer with an admitted conflict of interest and no accountability. If anything is amateur, that is.

By: Thom

Thom — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:49:13 +0000

“Graphic novels are finally going to get the attention they deserve.”

Haven’t people been saying this since the late 80′s?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:33:25 +0000

Back in 2003, Heidi MacDonald, then writing for Comicon's Pulse, started running savage reviews by a supposed intern new to comics named Jess Lemon. Only such a person never existed. Last month, Heidi explained: "Jess Lemon was a work of fiction, and I never ever said she was a real person. I said she wasn't me or Jen, which is TRUE." Don, I'm sure you would have done a better job. :)

By: Don MacPherson

Don MacPherson — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:26:03 +0000

I received the same e-mail and was thinking of writing a critical essay as well. You beat me to the punch. :)

Now that I see yours, though, I realize the approach I had planned would have been flawed. I like how you blast the anonymous critic/creator without providing any link or publicity. Perfect.

By: Tom Spurgeon

Tom Spurgeon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:17:47 +0000

I would like to apologize to everyone for my new site.

PS — You all still suck.

By: Brian Saner Lamken

Brian Saner Lamken — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:15:45 +0000

Or Jess Lemon, in a younger generation.

I have no idea who that is (to quote Temperance Brennan), but then I didn’t have an Internet connection for about five years.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:46:34 +0000

Yeah, that seems an odd choice of audience.

I should also add that I have my suspicions as to whom this may be, based on their provided job descriptions, but I could be wrong.

By: ADD

ADD — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:06:38 +0000

I got that press release, too. I guess he sent it to all the graphic novel review sites. Go figure.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:09:06 +0000

No, I don’t know who the person is, Alan, nor did he/she sign the press release.