With the San Diego Comic-Con just days behind us, I guess there's enough nerd culture in the air to permeate the brains even of comics folk who don't make a living off capes and cowls. How else to explain the near simultaneous salutes to science-fiction cinema from two of alternative comics' most talented draftspeople, Dustin Harbin and Lisa Hanwalt?

First up, Diary cartoonist and Casanova letterer Dustin Harbin brings us "The Faces of RoboCop," a 16-panel portrait of the cast of Paul Verhoeven's Detroit-dystopia sci-fi satire. I'm particularly fond of "Psycho That '70s Dad," but you'll have to click the link to see him. I'd buy that for a dollar! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Next, I Want You cartoonist and Pizza Island member Lisa Hanawalt reviews Michael Bay's Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon in words and pictures. It's a harrowing, heartbreaking, ultimately uplifting tale of human perseverance in the face of adversity and atrocity -- I'm talking about the review, not the movie. (Oh God, definitely not the movie.) It also features the best portrait of Rosie Huntington-Whitley ever drawn. Chewy indeed!