<html><P>The original Gladstone comics under Bruce Hamilton were clearly a labor of love (unlike the comics the Disney company put out during the famed Interregnum, which were pretty much an attempt to make quick money), and the new Gemstones releases have also been clearly undertaken as much for love as for money. David Gerstein in particular has gone out of his way to give us reprints of Gottfredson and Scarpa classics that I thought I'd never see (like Pflip's Strange Power and The Delta Dimension) and reprints of classic vintage Big Bad Wolf and Bucky Bug stories. The Gemstone folks are on our side, so to speak, and we should stop acting (or, more precisely, Daniel should stop acting) as if they're trying to lie to us and trick us into buying their products. I didn't care for a lot of the recent Gemstone material (mainly the new Egmont stories), but I'm still very sorry to see so many titles bite the dust. </P></html>