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A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran
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Did you let the original letterer go mid-page?
LOL!
Well, sort of!
I drew this sequence in 1988. Years later, I decided to self publish the series and added some new pages. In this case, I added the previous splash page, but removed half of this page and replaced it with a new panel.
My own lettering is so SAD!!! I think this is one of the first couple of pages I started trying to do my own lettering.
If I ever get around to doing a definitive, collected edition, I am going to redo these sequences. I may remove the original lettering from the first 200 pages entirely and replace with my own font to keep the look consistent. Dunno yet.
Back in the halcyon days of the original ADS message board, I ran a series of articles detailing the differences between the original Starblaze version and the comic. There are a lot of ‘em! And it doesn’t stop there — there are further differences between the comics and the graphic novels. Aaaarrgggh! It’s enough to give the diligent ADS-spotter a migraine.
Even I don’t remember what all the differences were. Once I’m done with something, I’m done and don’t go back and ponder it.
When things are pointed out to me, I am as surprised to see them as anyone else! Can’t remember them!
The only reason I really remember changes today is I can spot major differences in the lettering (obvious) and the inking style of the later work is much more fine. The drawing is also a lot better. That difference is very “in your face” to my eye, but some people can’t seem to see it.
For some reason, between 1987 and 1989, I began using a vary hard edge on the art for this book. I completely abandoned that style, I am happy to say. Don’t know why I adopted it, except perhaps it was a spillover form the harder edged look I was trying to adopt for my mainstream work. There’s an issue of Marvel Fanfare I did, a story with Rogue and Dazzler, where that style looks really nice, and was beautifully inked by Terry Austin.
But it is all wrong for A Distant Soil.