Note to "Wrenboo"

Can I merge you two that way?

I hold, at this very moment, two keys to happiness in this life.

One is "Midnight Nation", my heavily-used-and-falling-apart print edition. It has the missing pages! I'll scan them and get them up on my site some time this weekend, and deliver the print copy to the juggernaut-of-marital-bliss known as Curtis and Anne at the reunion.

The other is Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics". This book, also, will be made available via the "great reunion 'book loan' of ought-five". Now, I want to preface the loaning of this book with a few comments.

Look, I know you read Penny Arcade (or, at least, that Anne does). So you may not have the best opinion of Scott McCloud, but I'd like you to remember that a lot of what goes on over at P-A is for entertainment value, and that Mr. McCloud is just another point of view.

That said, I think he makes some excellent points about how to use comics as a visual medium. Now, I'm not trying to suggest there's anything at all wrong with the way you're doing things now, but I know I learned to appreciate the art form a lot more after reading this, and perhaps you might also.

Additionally, I'd recommend his other works. I think there's something fundamentally simple in his way of expressing himself that makes his work a joy to read.