Instead of using Vermin's tired characters, Abner inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. As Love books, despite some inventively gory crime scenes. Vellum, gesso, gouache, plywood and beeswax are among the materials Kretschmer inventively employs. The plot is most often centered on one inventively masked main villain. Amanda resists rather inventively; simply lies still, fully clothed. But whereas Hayne at least had merely copied it, van der Weyden inventively transformed it. Niello was rarely used in Sasanian metalwork, which could use it inventively. Portis has been described as "one of the most inventively comic writers of western fiction". Ratti's designs inventively bridge the digital and the physical. Permitting or encouraging children to spell inventively has some costs.