Seriously, Please Stop Doing This

Pressing me for a review of your work -- with or without the bonus mini-lecture as to why I should be reviewing your comic and comics like them -- is so distasteful to me that all it does is make me mad at you in a way I'm no longer able to review your work fairly. And so I won't.

I understand the frustration with wanting to see your work reviewed, as there is such little reward in making comics of any type. I really do. But with such a message or series of same all you're saying is that the way I approach my work doesn't suit you. I fail in my job every day, but I do take it seriously. That includes a commitment to the many voices in the small press that I think can be measured back 15 years. It may not include a review of your latest book. I appreciate seeing all of the work I receive, recognize the very real cost in getting it to me, and I promise you I struggle to find something to say about each and every one.

If I've still disappointed you in some direct way you can take a measure of comfort that a review from me isn't anywhere near as influential as I've led my Mom to believe (in other words, not at all), and that as I've never failed to write without prompting about new work that I find superior or even transcendent, you might not automatically be happy with the final result.
 
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