“It’s not the anthropomorphism. Or, it’s partly that. It’s that kids project themselves onto ‘universally identifiable characters’ like Fone Bone (I mean, he’s almost literally a blank slate). And then they’re the ones in the transaction where they see a flash of thigh and fall in ‘love.’ There’s power in the body, and Smith creates the perfect proxy to invite kids into that particular perception of/relationship with the body. And I’m never terribly comfortable with that aspect of comics.”