Heh. I am so self-absorbed, I knew not of the existence of metaquotes. Now I have another place to use up time in an unwise fashion ;)

I'm enjoying this book, and perhaps even more than I recall enjoying the first two. I haven't seen the PoA movie because I don't care enough to pay full theater price, and am content to wait for DVD, but I did like the second movie quite a bit. I've enjoyed David Thewlis playing any number of horrible, bad, cruel people, though I can easily see someone with his face being...not evil. He does evil well, though. Which is irrelevant, I guess ;)

I agree about Badou's arms. I have a thing for big-jointed man-boy transitional limbs, I guess. I actually was referring to my conviction that I have something else by this artist hiding on my hard drive, though I can't figure out what...but I went to that Manara link. I think I have seen Manara's stuff in the past. And, even though I was just there and clicking on everything clickable, I'll just have to take your word for it that anyone even had hands. Boobies, yes. Hands? Yeah, probably. But--boobies!!! And cute butts!