The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Alec Austin:

Teresa: I believe that Avram is referring to the common knowledge in the comics industry that issues of a comic with gorillas, monkeys, and apes on the cover almost universally sell better than issues without said simians.

I never did counts or ordering when I worked at Comic Relief, so I can't attest to whether the numbers bear this out... but the belief has been out there a long time, so there's probably something to it.

Randolph:

Ditto Xopher on the clarification of your position making more sense.

I still more or less agree with Xopher's sentiments re: Schmidt, but I'm no longer gaping in disbelief at the suggestion that it's illegitimate to use someone's own words to campaign against them.

Randolph:

This is called playing the game. Yeah, it's campaigning. Campaigning is how you get shameless reptiles like Schmidt voted out of office and the House back under Democratic control. What should we be doing, sitting on our hands?

While I'm loath to use the "Republicans have done far, FAR worse" argument, I'd suggest you take another look at the Tony Kushner quote below our host's blogroll. There's nothing remotely illegal or unethical about that billboard, and that's more than I can say for the other side's behavior.

I know that they hand out CDs of the game at recruiting stations, but yeah, that's a ridiculous d/l time.

I knew that kuma/war was probably someone's propaganda tool, given the FPS frame they used to glorify recent military actions, but I never took the time to look at the game itself. From Jim's comments, its content is worse than I thought.

I'd be curious to hear what Jim thinks about the America's Army game-- specifically, its degree of realism and use as a recruitng/PR tool.

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