Can You Believe Your Eyes?

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Chris Sims, a blogger who regularly cracks hard on the Anita Blake comic, the way we here at Lashouts crack on the blogs and the books - has been quoted on the back of the hardcover 6 issue compilation of the comic book.

How freaking hard up were they for blurbs?

Yeah yeah, it's one line.



But in reality this* is it's true context.

And if you haven't read Chris' take on the whole Guilty Pleasure, the Comic Book - here you go. That's a nice neat search entry from his old blog and I'm fairly certain his new website should make finding the more recent review as easy.

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, however, seeing as how Dabel was directing fans to Chris' mockery of the series as a promotional tactic!

*breathes* Something's not right in the world. Someone want to tell me what it is?

ETA: Link to Adam Berry quote. Link to ComicCritique quote. So one actual positive review to two disappointed ones.
*(fixed link)

Comments

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

I'm personally left wondering what goes on after the dots on the Adam Berry quote. It almost looks like it's going to be something like " . . . but holy COW was I ever disappointed when I finally saw the comic itself!"

[bleedingsand.livejournal.com]

I just Googled the quote, and that's pretty much it.

Heh!

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

I Googled it, too, and you're absolutely right. That's freakin' hilarious.

Re: Heh!

[tylergrrls.livejournal.com]

If they'd really wanted to make it sound positive, they should have chopped off the "I have to be honest" part. Seriously... it STILL doesn't sound very encouraging, even with the end missing.

Re: Heh!

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

If they're going to quote out of context they may as well do it right.

"This...comic...is the...best...I've ever read."

Re: Heh!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_shadowstalker_/]

HAHA!

Exactly! That's the sense I was left with after reading the articles from which they pulled these horrendous quotes. Did they even read the rest of the article? Or read it at all? Or, worst, and most likely, did they not read the actual comic?

[pith]

I think the "teenage Blake fan" phraseology says it all, really.

Yeesh. Next thing you know, they'll be linking to us *g*

[no-ron.livejournal.com]

:))))))

[http://users.livejournal.com/_shiisa_/]

No, it's great! They had to run out of quotable positive reviews, after all!

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

I hope someone left thje poor guys comments, that their reviews have been used out of context to make them appear positive ...

[kathrynthegr8.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahahahaha

[nightangel486.livejournal.com]

Really? Really LKH? Did you really just do that? Wow...I mean, they do know that those were BAD reviews, right?...I mean it's almost like they're purposely making the comic a bigger joke than it already is

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

I doubt LKH herself was responsible for picking the quotes, but I'm still... pretty darn offended by the misrepresentation. (I think I'd actually feel sorry for her if she'd read those reviews. A little tiny weeny bit sorry. Maybe. :-D)

[ellenel13.livejournal.com]

That's just sad.

[knomey.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed that they were THAT hard up for good reviews.

[artemis-rex.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's so deliberately misleading that I smell a potential lawsuit.

Are you sure this isn't a joke?

[frabjously.livejournal.com]

*clears throat*

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Seriously. They ran out of good reviews?

[relmneiko.livejournal.com]

Couldn't they just make up reviews, or pay people to say them... REALLY?

...This is just absurd.

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

Whoever did that could be sued.

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

Isn't it just the same as what happens when movie PR people pull quotes?

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

That's a good question; I'd say probably yes, and I'd say that you wouldn't have a good case either way. Politicians and celebrities get quoted out of context all the time--look at the media saying Ann Counlter said that John Edwards should be killed by terrorists and left out the rest of her statement.

[panicqueen.livejournal.com]

A lawyer friend of mine says that they are perfectly within their rights to butcher the quote to turn it positive, as long as they give credit to the source. So while this is deliberately and ridiculously misleading, it isn't illegal.

Which is sad.

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

But it is unprofessional and unethical. Word gets around when you have no ethics.

[panicqueen.livejournal.com]

Oh, no doubt. And it's pretty pathetic, too, that they couldn't find something genuinely positive for the blurb.

[keepsake]

That's a whole new low right there.