  September 14, 2008  CR Sunday Interview: Scott McCloud    I
read the comics that make up the new collection Zot!: The
Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991 when I was a
college student, much older than the 'tween and early teen that
seems perfectly suited to the manga-influenced tale of Jenny
Weaver and her superhero friend from another Earth. Instead, I
was a terribly confused young man, who, like many others at that
age, wanted to regress to my own 13-year-old days and those
concerns and all the feelings rampant in those first, true, out-
of-family friendships. I probably fell a little bit harder for
the title than I should have, and when I talk below about fans
that seem to like Zot! more than creator Scott McCloud seems to,
I'm to be counted among their number.  imageGiven the major
crush of news that came with McCloud's recent making of a comic
to introduce Google's Chrome browser, a Scott McCloud interview
devoted to the new Zot! book and general industry talk is a bit
like an interview with S