52 - Squid and Owl steal furtive looks; plus Monsters vs. Aliens

Next page. I like the guy's legs. The little girl turned out alright, don't get me wrong. Her fingers say 'this is my personal space'. But the guy is comfortable in his skin. And such rich, tomato-y skin it would appear to be.

I believe Squid and Owl could learn a lot from him about comic books.

I went with Mei Mei to see "Monsters vs. Aliens". She's been reciting the ad by heart for a couple weeks. 'Suuuuuusan!" "ooh, I scared myself!" She liked it but she got freaked out when ... [plotspoilers!]

Susan got drained of her quantonium powers by the evil alien guy. So I don't actually have any plotspoilers, because I don't know how it ended. We had to leave the theater. But I'm guessing they defeat the alien, her ex-fiancee suffers mildly, the monsters start some sort of whimsical monsters-for-hire business. And Susan becomes a happy, professional 50-foot woman, having gotten her quantonium powers back. I'm thinking that somehow Insectosaur turns out to be alive, after all.

Mei Mei liked it fine, she just got worn out. We went to McDonalds and she was very pleased with her Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. toy, although naturally she would have preferred a Susan. Has any other academic ever been turned into a happymeal toy?

I thought the film was so-so. Animation nice but the story seemed by-the-numbers. The Colbert as President bits weren't that funny, and the busting out with the Beverly Hills Cop theme was the very antipodes of funny. I did like that the government officially changed Susan's name to Ginormica, or Gignormica. I'm guessing by the end she has finally embraced her inner Ginormica.

Comments

[The Modesto Kid]

"Mink vs. Skink" is a promising title for a comic book... Nice that owl is peeking at the rodents book, squid at the sea creatures book.

I saw Monsters vs. Aliens a few short weeks ago and find that I already have practically no memory of the plot. Imagery was fun though -- I laughed out loud at the "Vertigo" reference in the chase scene. Imagery of Modesto was pretty lame in that there are plenty of shots you could use to establish something is occurring in Modesto (including some which are references to "American Grafitti"), and the film used none of them. So "Modesto" was just a name, not a place.

[Brock]

This is my favorite Squid and Owl page so far.

[The Modesto Kid]

I don't think I quite got that the black thing is a sofa, the first time I looked at this. It's a nice squishy shape for a sofa; but it's hard to think of the two readers as seated, especially the orange one.

[jholbo]

Yeah, the sofa. True story: it started out as just a black squishy biomorphic shape. Then it sorta looked like a sofa, so I tweaked it a bit. But maybe I should have kept tweaking.

[The Modesto Kid]

The headless orange reader looks more like he's leaning against a lamppost or something. (Maybe the amber tone of the background contributes to that impression.) Ms. Green, she is definitely sitting down.