::: I hit mute during commercials
 Ok, well I still haven’t had a chance to see this book, but as I mentioned a few posts down, Dogsbody, TCJ's online review column pans Raisinlove Graphix's Zombie Commandos From Hell #1 this month, mostly on the basis of the fact that Raisinlove chose to put adds on the bottom of their first issues pages (2 thirds of the text is dedicated to this complaint).
It seems that Dogsbody failed to mention that these adds only appeared in the first issue of the book, which was also accompanied by a CD soundtrack (provided with the book). And Dogsbody may or may not be aware that the adds are from Internet sites and magazines which had offered advertising spaces in exchange for the banners on the comic's pages, music labels which bought copies of the books to sell their catalogues, operators of vending tables at concerts promoted by Raisinlove, and artists who contributed to the comix themselves. Which makes them all as relevant to the book as anything you would find advertised in a Fanta book.
I realise Fantagrafics & TCJ has a ethical issues with advertising in comics and wrestles with the question of what’s appropriate in their own publications all the time, but ultimately they too place them in their books, all be it on separate pages from the comics. Dogsbody’s assertion that these ones, appearing on the same page as the strips, invade ‘sacred space’ is at best taste making, which I suppose is the territory of a column like Dogsbody, but none the less has little to do with the story content of the book being reviewed (that would primarily be the story and not the adds).
So for an opinion of that you may want to skip directly to the third paragraph of the review, where they basically say it’s bloody minded crap the President of the United States would enjoy. High praise in some circles and more or less what the publisher expected to hear from them.
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