It’s wonderful. I loved it, and my 8 year-old (who has no special fondness for Superman, or even comics) loved it, too. I think he’d happily read more stories about Lan-Shin and her brother whether Superman showed up in them or not.

This one was the nicest surprise from my last trip to the comics shop. The kind of perfect symbiosis of art and writing that you always hope for in a book but rarely get.

You kind of sound like you’d enjoy Tom King’s VISION miniseries from a couple years back.

So glad to see this here, and can’t wait to read it—Eleanor is the best.

You’re right, information about Annihilation wouldn’t be as prevalent—unless you’re the well-known director of a forthcoming adaptation of Annihilation. I imagine Alex Garland had a lot of people tweeting at him.

I take her point. I have deliberately avoided learning about the Kardashians—on the other hand, the information is out there, and I inadvertently know more than I care to.

Is it said that replicants don’t breathe, even as mimicry? I’m honestly asking. Doesn’t seem like they’d need the Voight-Kampff if they could just hold a mirror up to replicants’ faces. 

You're not going to pin this on a roving band of gypsums again, are you?

I can't think of a concrete example of how that could've happened.

What does everyone think the concrete did? Maybe it sold drugs or something.

Copyright law says it's Fair Use if I only steal 33% of it

I don't know anything about this case. But as an author and illustrator, I've been on both sides of some amazing (yet entirely innocent) coincidences and I worry about the jury here. In my experience, people who DON'T write for a living tend to treat creative coincidences as impossible, and therefore proof of theft.

When I post on here it's usually with an AV Club account, but I couldn't remember my credentials.

Knowing both the kid's book industry and these two personally, I can assure you they're not making books for the money. But they do both genuinely love kid's books.