Alt.Feud: Seattle Weekly Eats Stranger's Lunch Cover Art

Oh no they dihn't! For what must be very good reasons, Seattle's graying alt weekly and more-alt-than-thou weekly have a running pissing contest going on -- messy, as you can imagine -- with the Stranger achieving a more regular stream in public. The results tend to appeal to a limited audience, so we thought we'd help out. Here's Paul Constant with the latest Sloggy spray.

Dear Seattle Weekly,
Why did you put Jaime Hernandez artwork on your cover this week? There was a great deal of excitement about The Hernandez Brothers at The Fantagraphics Store last week.

We'll decode this for you: see the Stranger was scheduled to run a Hernandez Brothers cover this week (also a week late), but they bumped it in favor of their unhealthy unseemly un-something fascination with Anna Nicole Smith. We're not sure who shopped what to whom, but -- surprise! -- the Weekly came out with a Hernandez Brothers cover.

Incestuous, isn't it? That's one underlying reason for the spat. At this point, the Stranger and Seattle Weekly's mastheads have exchanged enough editorial DNA to be prohibited from reproduction. With all the writers shuffling back and forth, it's gotta be hard work to differentiate the two papers. So maybe it's not a feud -- just a JOA that works. Times, P-I, here you go. Let it fly!