My latest column is up at Scryptic. This week we explore the seedy world of "backmatter," that stuff that people shove into the back of comics in efforts to amuse you for a few additional seconds before you toss their comic in the garbage.

PLUS: I think I commit libel in this column, and I definitely do a disservice to a beloved Moore-Gibbons classic. All that, plus I answer the question that everything hypothetical reader is asking, "What's an ersatz?"

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