Their personalities and backgrounds are very different, but James R. Jacobs and Shinjoung Yeo are passionate about the same causes: librarianship, open government, and empowerment through information. They balance each other. Yeo is focused, realistic, critical, and an excellent researcher. Her superhero alter ego is Wet Blanket Woman, able to bring any optimist to his or her knees with a single word. Jacobs is a good writer and editor, an optimist, and a tech geek. This article provides an in-depth comparison of the two librarians as well as describing the many ways in which they compliment each other.