We're very happy to report that Backwards City #2 is about to go to press, and we think we speak for all of the Editors when we say that this issue tops even our first in pure gobsmacking greatness.

But we don't want to oversell.

What we do want to do is invite you to subscribe to the magazine. If you're a careful shopper, feel free to peruse excerpts from our first issue -- then subscribe. A year's subscription is just $12, and brings you:

Comics from Paulette Poullet, Kenneth Koch, Nate Powell, Jeremy Broomfield & Claude le Monde, and Patricia Storms

Fiction from Chris Bachelder, Alika Tanaka, Dave Housley, Julia Ridley Smith, and Kurtis Davidson

Nonfiction from Traci Burns

Poetry from Dan Albergotti, Linh Dinh, C. Derick Varn, Joanne Lowery, Michael Constantine McConnell, Lisa Jarnot, Adam Clay, Eric Amling, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Anna Fulford, Denise Duhamel & Maureen Seaton, Chad Davidson & John Poch, Nick Carbo, Michael Robins, Marc McKee, Jon Leon, Becky Cooper, Matthew Rohrer, Chris Vitiello, and James Grinwis

Art and Photography from John Norris, Jon Clark, Mitchell Ostrover, and Mike Stauss

Humor from Tom Greenwood

and introducing Index by The Editors

as well as the untold transcendent splendor that will be Backwards City #3.

Excerpts and more pimping will be coming down the pipe in the coming days and weeks. We're very excited about #2. if we must say so ourselves, we've put together an amazing product for y'all, and even if you're already a subscriber, please try to get the word out about us to anyone you can. We'll owe you one. Each of us. Even Jaimee.

Thanks, and keep reading.

Current subscribers: it's never too early to renew.