if I were a comic book character....

...I think I'd like to be Death, from the Sandman series. Here's what I've been coming up with in Comic Life, which is good for at least three hours of mindless photo tweaking pleasure.




First I made over my brother (who was horrified at the results). I like this picture. It's so typical. He just doesn't know.




Then I got started on other items, like the one of myself from Halloween, above (no, that's not my real hair), several flowers,

an odd angle of our frontyard tree,











and, of course, my perennial favorite, the pee-dog:
















With a little fiddling, you can turn those comic pages into photos fairly quickly. I'm finding this cheapo little Mac program so much easier to use than Photoshop. I may never go back.