The best defense?

New York Magazine’s Vulture column picks up on the Eightball kerfuffle:

“Having read the comic, which was later included in Clowes’s Pantheon-published graphic novel, Ice Haven, we can say that calling this comic book ‘borderline pornography’ is hilarious. Dude, Gossip Girl is borderline pornography. This is an extremely non-salacious art comic by a guy whose work is so tame these days he’s currently the Times magazine’s cartoonist of choice.”

Was there a compliment in there?