Larsen Impugns McFarlane’s Hotness



Crisis at Image Headquarters as cartoonist Erik Larsen has slammed the essential handsomeness and fundamental lady-appeal of fellow company founder, the toy czar and cartoonist Todd McFarlane.

In a statement made following McFarlane's recent loss in court to writer Neil Gaiman over rights to characters derivative of other characters to which Gaiman had previously won a court decision, Larsen suggested that the all-female jury was won over by Gaiman's charming English accent, his tousled hair, his all-purpose leather jacket, his pouty lips or maybe just the first of those four things. This led to much umbrage being taken -- a run on umbrage, shelves empty of umbrage. No word yet as to how McFarlane feels about this assault on his physical appearance, which could be described as something along the lines of a slightly less intense older brother of Christian Bale more into sports than screaming at the technical crew.

Okay, I'm kidding. It's troubling for a prominent comics figure to make a sweeping statement about the ability of women to function in civic roles that's just soaked in chauvinism, and it should be called out. Laura Hudson on point.
 
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