Zeo's Thoughts and Wanderings

I just want to say I love the webcomic Templar, Arizona.

The art is outstanding, and the world Spike has created is intriguing, both familiar and exotic.  Her characters all seem to be larger than life, other than Ben, the main character, who in contrast, seems to almost fade into the background, overshadowed by the residents, locals, and sometimes even the architecture.

My favorite character design has to be that of Reagan, Ben's neighbor.  Spike describes her thusly: "Reagan is tall for a woman, fat by anybody's standards, dresses like an eccentric drag queen, has a head of hair that reaches past her calves, and wears cat's eye glasses. She's usually smoking. And she's kind of hard to miss. "  She also swears a lot, and seems to have adopted a personal mission to get Ben out of his apartment and into the outside world (such as it is).  Reagan dominates whatever panel she's in, partly through physical size, partly through personality.  And I think she's beautiful, and wish I had even just a fraction of that woman's confidence (when a woman "fat by anyone's standards" is comfortable enough in her own skin to wear low-rise skintight capris and a tied-off blouse, out in public?   I can barely wear anything like that at home behind closed doors and shuttered windows).