Forget MySpace, forget Facebook ... it seems the in-place to be these days is Twitter.

If the established social networks provide a "shop window" for you to display your wares, Twitter is a coffee shop where you can put your head in the door, have a quick chat with anyone you know there, and move on.

So ... if you have a Twitter presence already and you fancy exchanging gossip with me, click one of these links and add me to the people you're "following". Let me know you're a Broken Voice Comics reader and I'll follow you in return.

If you don't have a Twitter presence already, you'd better sign up quick. Leave it too long and you'll find all the cool kids have already moved on somewhere else!

I'm sure you've heard of Ain't it Cool News, right? The Harry Knowles website that gives brutally honest reviews of the latest movies and has a knack for unearthing the most closely guarded studio secrets? Of course you have. Well, unless you visit the AiCN website regularly, what you may not have realised is that they also review other things, like DVDs and comics. And more recently, it seems, even webcomics. Webcomics like ... Shades!

Yes, Shades now has a review by Ain't it Cool News and - deep breath - it's a pretty positive review, too!

Here are a couple of extracts:

"[…] so far, the story is pretty damn good. […] Writer Burner nails some great character driven moments as an aged tailor and his grandson go on a quest to inform a team of superheroes from the past about an impending danger. Burner asks the question: what makes a hero? A colorful costume or a person’s deeds?"

Yeah, okay - so he spelt my name wrong, but it's still pretty cool! And there's more ...

"The art is pretty damn fine too […] with dynamic poses and effective action sequences. The artist also knows how to capture the more quiet scenes […] Many artists don’t really give it their all in the scenes in between the big battles. Chattoraj isn’t one of those artists. He seems to give it his all in every panel."

You can read the whole review here and, if you're not already familiar with Shades, you can see check out the comic itself here!