Haaaa, that was great!

Also, hey, Strega, remember that time I called you from my comic book store for recommendations on Warren Ellis books and you suggested RED or Desolation Jones and I went with the latter? I made the right choice.

I'm loving Planetary, though.

It's from this: [link]

Okay. I feel less guilty about laughing now. That was cute.

DC And Marvel Superheroes As Manatees.

If you click this link, you will find DC and Marvel superheroes depicted as manatees.

Batmanatee nearly made me pee myself laughing. I don't know why that one was the funniest, but it was.

He looks so pathetic.

Matilda: (on seeing Adam West era Batman for the first time) "How come he looks like BatCat?"
Me: "What do you mean?"
Matilda: "His ears. Those are cat ears."

So I'm having a discussion with someone who disagrees with the statement "Greg Land's women have no personality" because he says personality isn't Greg Land's job, it rests entirely on the writer. My rebuttal is that a comic is a team effort, and some of the personality is definitely the artist's job--it's not a novel--the penciller, inker, and colourist will all contribute, to varying degrees.

As far as I can tell, he's missing a huge part of the point of a comic, so much so that I don't know what to do beyond pointing at pages and going "See? Personality!" Is there something 101ish I could direct him to? I mean, some things are so fucking basic I hadn't worked out how to articulate them.

I remember one of the things that made Joss' run on Astonishing X-men work so well was Cassaday's art and rendering of facial expressions. I want to say there were several typical Joss TV-style beats where someone would say something and someone else would just make a face in reaction.

How does Greg Land still have a job, anyway?

I'm almost done with Planetary, and I'm just wowed by Cassaday with every issue.