Pretty Pink Mouth Full of Ice Cream

It's an Arrested Development reference. Wasted last night--and I do mean wasted and am a little too tired to do much tonight but some research on schizophrenia for a project. I should get some pages done tomorrow but need to get some sleep now, after reading Seven Soldiers and another comic or two. Read Andi Watson's Little Star #1 two nights ago and it's terrific, a typically smallscale epic for Watson of a man trying to get or keep his shit together. The scenes where his toddler daughter vastly prefers Mommy over him ring true--luckily, that changes, and my two-and-a-half year old digs me again, and is even kind of flirty in that innocent way kids have.

Great column by Steven Grant today. I agree that the lack of a payoff is probably the biggest problem in comics today, so many writers understandably keeping books going to pay the bills or publishers doing the same. Not quite the flipside of the coin but maybe the edge is that I think readers are used to good, unique comics failing and being cut short in their life and when it doesn't happen you still start looking for the next hot thing. I mean, when 100 BULLETS came out, it was the hot thing for me, and I haven't read it in over a year now. I WILL read it, but I'm not pressed to, you know? As much as I love SLEEPER, would I feel the same way about it three years from now? Probably not. Most series really should end within three years.