Life's more painless, for the brainless

The hard part in starting Love and Capes is always the first few pages. Getting back on that horse is always rocky and hitting my stride is rough. Hence why when my non-LNC workload spiked over the last couple of weeks, it was a little too easy to put it off.

But, I'm back plugging away and I think I'm good for the next few issues. Right before I went to bed, I had an epiphany about page four which I jotted down on my shower wall with my bathtub crayons. I didn't want to forget the note. I have to say, though, that it is kind of horror-movie-esque to wake up in the morning and see DOES HE NORMALLY KEEP SECRETS? scrawled in green crayon when you stagger to the bathroom.

And yes, here's Mark drinking, beer even. There's been a lot of hubbub and hulabaloo about the recent Action Comics that was pulped because it showed Superman drinking a beer with his Dad. Now, I'm convinced it said ROOT BEER, not BEER on the artwork, and Clark is 29 and can have a beer with his father if he wants. But my friend Paul Storrie (click here to read his blog, and maybe then he'll post more) and I discussed it in the course of one of our regular phone calls, and he won me over to the "Superman shouldn't be drinking beer on the cover of a comic" side of things. He's right, it's just the smart move. And a good lettering job would have prevented all of this.

Speaking of which, I'm more offended by seeing the bad Photoshop job that DC did to fix it. It offends my artistic sensibilites. And, Kansas is Midwest America, and I'll bet they call it "pop" and not "soda pop". Heck, it should have been Soder Cola.

Now, I'm an Ohio Boy, but I admit I do call it "soda". Three years of internment in New Jersey beat the "pop" out of me.

Anyway, here's the panel from page three. And there are two reasons which you'll see when you read the comic why it works.