First frame shows "Young Richard Owen, shown here fresh and in good mood." He's a dark and frowning dude, with long black hair. A card says "Paléo categories 5: Man (++), gifted (++), no groundwork (-), faithless and ruthless (++++).
The second frame shows the author reading: "Here, at least, his biographers agree on two things: he was gifted but he was a bloody bastard."
The book she reads says "gaunt", "strong character", "cold", "villain", "merciless", "jealous", "terribly dishonest", "sly".
The author writes: "He was also the only dude that Darwin hated" and she describes herself the accompanying picture as "Darwin and Owen fighting in the duty free shop of a London airport."
Marion Montaigne does portray him as a talented, nerdy but unlikeable and gloomy asshole in the (quite humorous) comic book Nos Mondes Perdus.