Excerpts from the latest and greatest issue of Backwards City are now up at backwardscity.net. We're extremely, extremely proud of it, even if it does contain the most prominent printing error we've ever managed; we feel it's sort of fitting. (Really, it's not all that prominent, just in one of the contributors' notes—but it eats us up inside. We're perfectionists. It's the OCD that keeps us going.)

Subscribers' issues are going in the mail tomorrow and should be in your hot hands in a few days. While you're waiting, enjoy comics from T. Motley and xkcd, fiction from Fiction Award winner B.J. Hollars and Michael Shannon, and poetry from Mary Grimm, Tim Lockridge, David Shumate, and Charlie Clark.

And when it's time to get maudlin, begin to mourn with the original editors' farewell.