Some nice tricks and cons. Dykes is one of the five best comic strips currently being published. It's hip, intelligent, well drawn, politically aware, sweet, honest, very human, and funny. If you're a hetboy, don't sweat it. Lois the cheerfully promiscuous Lesbian Avenger, Sparrow the self-help addict, Tony and Clarice, the lesbian moms, Ginger the perpetual grad student, and more, enough to address everything in the queer scene from nonmonogamy to bisexuality, from Michigan to Audre Lorde, from lesbian communes to marches on Washington.
Hands are hell to draw.
But Bechdel draws knuckles, for God's sake. Even Jaime Hernandez doesn't draw hands that well. Good as Bechdel is as a strip writer, she's even better with longer forms. Dilbert, For Better or For Worse, Doonesbury, and Ernie.