I know that I’m legally covered under fair use in terms of number four, but it’s more of a issue of respect than anything else. My little hobby here is parasitic by nature, so I tend to shy away from pulling too much material off the sites themselves without permission, including frames. The reviews themselves are my own thoughts and therefore my own material (relatively speaking), so I’m comfortable putting that up scott-free. But the rest… eh, it’s just a quirk of mine. Besides, usually the end goal is to have you read the comic, so it’s a bit redundant.

Plus, I figure the people on the sites are sick of people taking their material/mirroring their comics already, no need to add to that slag heap.

“Unlike so many sites, I only use pictures from the comic if the creator gives me permission. The reason for this lies in my strong belief in intellectual copyright, a practice that has almost gone extinct on the web.”

OK, that’s very nice of you, but there is such a thing as Fair Use, where critics and reviewers may freely and without explicit permission or notice include exerpts of the work being reviewed. Creators have, or should, come to expect it. The trick is to not use too much, but as a teacher I can include an entire chapter from a book for classroom use, so I’m sure a handful of representative pictures from a webcomic would qualfy as fair use as well, especially when you crop them down to single panels.