Lauren Davis's discussions

In all honesty, it took me a while to be won over by Cagle's artwork. But when I decided to pick up with the continuing series while I was reading from the beginning, and I saw how amazing the artwork gets. She has a lot of energy from the very beginning, but she really finds her place with the movement and colors as… Read more

I hadn't thought of it as a cartoon. The first few episodes would be really light and fun, and then bam! Knife murder. I'm intrigued. Read more

I have a personal neurosis around that. Whenever something scratches paper, I have to rub the paper smooth as if I had somehow injured it. Read more

Misophonia sounds painful. Are you especially sensitive to sounds in the "bad sounds" range, or do other sounds cause you distress as well? Read more

Do you have a sense of what happens to Loopers who don't live 30 years into the future? Do they ever get a gold payday and retire? Read more

I'm glad it wasn't just me. I kept staring at his hand and wondering if they were going to show something after he smashed Kid Blue's hand. Read more

I love fan cobbles. Sometimes they make a crazy kind of sense. Read more

I don't see much in his proposal about how he plans to construct the island itself; the focus is mainly on the building. Are there any particularly successful man-made island projects? Read more

Given the overtly religious nature of Many Waters, I always connected the twins' virginity to L'Engle's Christian values. I don't think it's that she didn't see them as boys, but that she saw them as (in her estimation) good boys. Read more

Guilty. I think it's the nature of the Last Supper. It invites analysis, and then fixing. Read more

Clone Wars isn't trying to win a war. It's trying to tell a story about one. I'm routinely amazed by the way kids gobble up story lines week after week about the messiness of war, although, as was noted in a different thread, the show doesn't always succeed on that level. Read more

I hope we do get some real consequences from the training of the Onderon rebels, even better if Anakin and Obi-Wan don't agree on whether the outcome was acceptable or not after it's all over. Read more

Venture Bros. almost did that with their dog who turned out to be Hitler. But I would totally watch "The Pups from Brazil." Read more

Woestendiek is hilariously fascinated by the idea of Re-Pet. He mentions it in his book, and he brought it up a couple of times when I spoke with him. Read more

True. Although Hwang's disgrace was around embezzlement and fraud, his obsession with building the animal cloning industry is notable. That he was willing to lie about his results makes it not surprising that his lab has cut corners in the treatment of the animals. Read more

I agree. The kidnapping was great, and it's fun every time bolt-gun guy is mentioned. They'll need to step up the mythology a little bit if Audrey's expected to vanish into the ether soon. Read more

I was vaguely wondering that, although it would be a lame thing to do. I'll admit, sometimes I have a nasty physiological response to gore in theaters. It's possible that two people happened to have a weird reaction. Read more

Wouldn't something eat them long before they could make it anywhere? Read more

I actually like the idea of using a passenger ship, because I've seen a lot of zombies in war stories lately. I think if they had driven the historical fiction a little harder, this would have been a great book. They do a nice job with the historical fiction they use, but there's a lot more they could have explored. Read more

That book came out the next year. Perhaps Martin had already heard Edward Bryant's pitch by then, which would help explain why he was lukewarm on Gaiman's. Read more