Yes, it was a sympathetic article.
The critiques weren't necessarily valid. First they were saying just to be mentioned was good; via the articles that slammed us. Then for the positive article it was [supposedly] bad. Weird. The article was alright. It was flattering. Why not? People want to go with winners. and avoid those who are being attacked. That 's just crowd behavior and human nature.
I didn't follow it in detail, so can't say much about the attacks. 'cept they were likely "concerted" either by shills or by autists who were just freaking out over details.
This cartoon? Yeah, looks like Wictor wrote a piece favorable to "Q" who knew. The cartoon was a good one too.