The vicious friendly rivalry between scientific journals has been starkly presented in (nearly) black and white by PHD comics.

Here at Nature, and no doubt at Science too, editors are hopefully waiting to see if they will appear in any third part of the series Nature vs Science. This series started harmlessly enough with a comparison of adverts and impact factors (see here).

Then the comics moved on to one way of looking at the scientific publishing business model, based on a meeting with Nature’s online publishing director, Timo Hannay.

Also, we learn that Science keeps a “gallery of embarrassing Nature gaffes”. They’re probably just bitter about losing every sporting event to us. Let’s keep it friendly people…

Image: detail from PHD Comics