“…Gibson portrayed himself as being interested in working with critics, because that would make his efforts stronger. And he was talking about wanting to really be in comics for the long haul, building something of some sort of real length and value. I still had doubts about the actual content that he was promoting, because I’m a cynical bitch after twenty years in comics, but I kept them to myself because, frankly, Gibson was talking a better game than people who have been in comics for decades, and this has always been a field where entrepreneurial Go-Get-It-ness has always had an impact… So I was completely flabbergasted, to say the least, when, within 10 minutes of the phone call ending, Gibson posted to Twitter that people should start calling me right now now now and demand the book.

“Um.

“Wait, what?”