There's a little test us literary-types like to take whenever we** take a stab out into the dark and try to write women. There are three conditions that ought be met in order to indicate that you (as the writer) have written female characters well. If all three conditions are not met, the writer should consider himself a failure at writing women. They are as follows:

#1 There has to be more than one woman in the cast.
#2 The women have to talk to each other.
#3 It has to be about something other than men.

The current title holder for failure is Frank Miller, who manages to have women on their own talking to themselves about men.

Whoops! This is the fifteenth FOGClub strip. Something tells me there'll be a Hair vs. Mask Match between Kanenwisher and Miller in near future!

So, on to Point One:
Is there more than one woman in the cast? Well, technically yes. Annamae is introduced in the sixth strip, and co-exists with The Boys (Kevin and Scott) until the sixty-third strip, some three months later when the fourth recurring castmember Erin is introduced as Annamae's Roommate. Up until that point however, all Annamae ever talks has an internal monologue about is how much she loves Scott***. That is of course, unless her Complex Personality begins to glitter through the heaping helping of grease-based pancake makeup that's been smeared all over her character. But I digress.

Flash forward to the next time where Annamae and Erin have an isolated dialog:

Yessir, they're still talking about men. This strip is notable because Erin collapses backwards with a Gontermanian sound effect balloon. Either that, or Erin harbors a secret talent as a fartsmith that would put Le Petomane to shame. Note that yes, they're still talking about men.

Current Scorecard: Kanenwisher scores on Point One by the technicality of introducing Erin to the cast.

Point Two: Do the women talk to each other?
Apparently.

Point Three: About something other than men?
Amazingly!

Okay, that's one solitary instance throughout the entirety of FOGClub where the women (plural) are speaking to each other about a topic that is Not Men.

The prosecution would like to present to the court as evidence:
- Erin consoling Annamae as she cries about Scott and so on for four strips
- Annamae talks to Erin about getting a sexy costume so she can tell a guy with whom she's had no prior romantic involvement that she loves him.
- Annamae and Erin talking about how Annamae feels about Scott.
- Annamae and Erin talking about how much of a big meany Scott is for ignoring her.
- Annamae getting jealous of Erin because she was alone with Scott.
- Annamae and Erin talking about how Scott jerked himself stupid because Pat Lee draws the Transformers comic. I'd like to say that this was technically not about men, but rather about comics, but you know I can't, as a journalist and a straight-faced chronicler of the Holocaust FOGClub, I just can't do it. Integrity and all that.
- Annamae, Erin and Kevin talking about how big of a butthole Scott is for not celebrating Christmas with them. Technically, since Kevin is engaged in conversation with the women, this is not a dialog among women, unless you imagine that Kevin is a blood-belching vagina (which I do).
- No dialog, but Annamae is thinking about men.

Where's facepalm.jpg when I need it?

In summation: Kanenwisher is as bad, if not worse than Frank Miller at writing women. Maddox would just love him to pieces.

* Look sweetheart, you're an actress, it's your job to show us your tits. If you didn't want to get into this line of work, you could always go and wait tables - another job at which I'm fairly certain you'd be fantastic.

** By "we" I mean "As Men," since everybody involved with the Fantasy Anime Gamers Club is male, so for the sake of clarity and conciseness I'll use the first person plural pronoun "we" when discussing writers of the masculine gender.

*** Picking Nits! This is another one of the irritating instances where Kanenwisher misspells the word "moment" as "momment." Interesting fact! MSWord automatically corrects this, so in order for me to display this in my word processor window, I had to right click on the "correction options" tab that floats over the word that was automatically corrected and manually instruct MSWord to "Stop Automatically Correcting" this word from now on.