It’s not perfect but I think it’s a pretty lovely thing — I think people keep wanting to ascribe some political/social messages to the pieces here, but I think they’re just neat comic stories. That happen to be made by women.

It worked for me, but I was pretty much on board from the beginning and after reading some of the interviews with the editors, I was even more on board. I’m fine with people not liking it, but I think a lot of the reaction is more about the what it is rather than what’s inside.

(And don’t worry about the typos — my keyboard’s been uncooperative lately too.)

I thought exactly the same thing about the intro by Coover. It’s a poster waiting to happen. I know that it is a sequence of fictional characters, but I still felt an emotional response to it, like if it had been a tv commercial about real rescue workers or something.

I don’t always read text pieces put in comics, but I thought the profiles were really good also, and actually read them. This comic does a lot of hings right, I think. It’s good to see your take on it.