Dear Craig:
I read your piece on encountering a mysterious agent of the even more mysterious Bushmiller Society Something less dramatic but equally unsettling happened to me not so long ago. As you know, since Yoe Studio handled sculpting, we are in the process of creating two 8 vinyl dolls of Nancy and Sluggo. Our license to make these is with United Media, who is also handling approvals.

Therefore, it was eerie when, completely unsolicited, an official seal of approval arrived in my in box from the Bushmiller Society. Who are these people and how did they know what our figures look like? Are their spies everywhere? I mean, I’m glad they liked them and everything, but it’s kind of scary to think that a top-secret project like this is subject to their scrutiny. I’m sure it must be legit, as the art and design are similar to the button you were handed.

Your fellow paranoid,
David Scroggy/Dark Horse Comics

Yo, David!

This is creeping me out! If I were you I wouldn’t have anything to do with this group. Putting their “seal of approval” on the Dark Horse packaging would definitely be seen as complicity by the Authorities and would be frowned upon. I have already told the authorities everything I know about you, how you had long hair as a youth, used to see yourself as a “poet”, your known association with “undergound cartoonists” and “low-brow artists”, etc. I’d keep a low profile if I were you.