Is the outside world allowed to know of ILC's existence?

I am now. Thanks for the response-- the efforts so far have been highly amusing, if not altogether successful. I don't think that "We're about the other end of the spectrum from the Engine" is apt enough of a description on its own as it might give the impression that we're more "mainstream" than we really are, while "We think Tintin is better than Watchmen" is probably just as applicable to the snootier and more envious denizens of the Comics Journal's board. I'm tempted to go with "Comics Are Rubbish But We Love Them Anyway" just because it amuses me, but maybe we'd be better served by a straighter/copy-ready one or two sentence boil down of the points on Tom and aldo's summaries, leaving out in-jokes and warning about ILX addiction? If no one else steps up to the task, I'll try to pound something out for vetting here tomorrow.

what the fuck is steven grant 'famous' for writing apart from the Punisher?

Who said he was famous, and why should it matter? He's a working professional-- it's not like they were going to get Alan Moore to write for them every week. (Ellis actually used to be the other columnist at CBR, before he went off to concentrate on his own interweb stuff.) I actually like Grant much better as a columnist than as a comic book writer (Badlands, his other big claim to fame, wasn't really my cup of tea) and I don't think that I'm the only one out there who feels that way.

Anyway, I was going to say that I'm sort of glad that there was no result from this. I mean, at least nothing bad happened as a result. Can anyone tell me if there was any traffic at all as a result of the link? I'm curious as to how many people actually follow the recommendations from Grant's column now (I know that I usually don't, so I suppose the outcome should have been no surprise).

Awesome story, Tom. I wonder how many people even did a look-thru, though! I was a bit miffed when last week in his column Grant started bitching about how there's no substantial critical content about comics on message boards. "Tell them Chris and I sent you", indeed-- did he just look at the New Answers page and then split? Ergh!

I blame amphetamines.

In my case, I blame not wanting to write my paper about Kant...

Though, by now its easily my favourite comics board.

Steven, show yourself!