Adashing & suave lady-killer and a misfit loser?

That's the man in a nutshell, with the two opposing personalities co-existing rather uncomfortably as the central character of the comic strip "Charisma Man."

The black-and-white, 5-panel strip first appeared in the monthly magazine "The Alien" in 1998. Its Canadian creator, Larry Rodney, using his writing skills to complement the talents of artist friend, Glen Shroeder, sought to depict the strange, and not always unpleasant metamorphosis that many gaijin men experience upon arrival in Japan.