Heterocephalus

I really like the Alien reference and the Bilal reverence and the Manara reverence and the Warhammer Fantasy reverence, good stuff!

Damn, Franka is such a cutie and so strong and dominant at the same time! :P

Regarding your question, Animah comes to mind, she is introduced in the second issue of The Incal and instantly becomes the love of John's life. Technically she is introduced in issue one, disguised as a homöo-geisha but the reader does not know at that point. As far as I remember they never really get to have much romance/quality time together, since they are constantly fighting to save the universe though.

In The Gardens of Aedena, Stel and Atan start out as sexless humanoids who later transition into a man and a women who eventually fall in love with each other. Maybe this example is a bit far fetched but when Stel and Atan change into Stel and Atana that is close enough to new characters getting introduced imo.

Simpsons viewers were outraged by the episode which revealed that Principal Skinner was in fact a fraudster.

I still refuse to consider that episode canon and I never will! Experts often see that episode as the beginning of serious quality decline in the series. Skinner was a beloved core character of the show and they had built him up over years. To deconstruct such a character for the sake of writing a single under average quality episode was a sacrilege!

A fries break should be mandatory in every company!

Not in this case, sorry.

Indeed! For me these suits represent full body condoms, which symbolize a culture that idealizes humanities total disconnection from their environment, from nature, dirt and microbes especially. The result of a long normalized perversion of cleanliness, that denies human nature and lead to strict biological isolation and permanent quarantine of each single human body. At some point it became so internalized that now the citizens of the undercity refer to their masks as their faces and consider actual faces to look weird. The alienation of mankind from nature (and how to find a way back to it) is a main theme in the Aedena cycle and one of the reasons I always found the story so fascinating.

They indeed appreciated each others work.

French cartoonist Moebius, who is known for realistic character designs, is often cited as one of Otomo's biggest influences

Source

Btw, Miyazaki is a fan of Moebius too:

https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/watch-moebius-and-miyazaki-two-of-the-most-imaginative-artists-in-conversation-2004.html

~~Goggle sucks at translations compared to deepl but as you mentioned correctly, deepl can not translate images.~~

I googled it to be sure. Turns out deepl in fact does have an OCR feature, but only in the windows app and the mobile apps, not in the web app (which I have been using) and the macOS app. Time to switch I guess ...

True, she has a certain monumental look. I assume she is supposed to be a cyborg or android.

Although B&M stories are a bit too serious in tone for my taste, it's drawings are excellent craftsmanship, beautiful!

Hey Loulou, that´s a cool droid! 😀

looks like it did it, yay!

Woop! Woop!

Oh no, I hope you can get them all back soon. I am keeping my fingers crossed for you!

No-ships were introduced by Frank Herbert relatively late in the series. If I am not mistaken book 4 introduced no-rooms and book 5 introduced no-ships. The reason I mentioned the Jodoverse al well is that both universes are very intertwined. In the Jodoverse it would be more of an advanced stealth ship I guess, because prescience/foresight do not play such a big role compared to the "Duniverse".