As many of you already know, our archives were wiped out in a blog update. Restoring the files from a backup archive was impossible, because the new system requires different image file formatting. I’ve now got a little time to devote to A DISTANT SOIL again, so I will update a new page 5 days a week. These pages are superior, high quality digital scans, and I vow to make sure the entirety of Volume I will be back on the web in the coming months. After that, we’ll see how things go.

Kovar regains upper hand. Order restored. One of the biggest influences on my work was an obscure graphic novel called Empire by Samuel R. Delany and Howard Chaykin. Originally published in 1978, I found it in a library, which not only makes this book one of the first graphic novels, but an early recipient of bookshelf respect. It had a great deal to do with molding my ideas about what comics were and could be, and was a direct influence on A Distant Soil. There’s some website out there which has some genuinely whack job info on it, claiming I declare myself to have created the first graphic novel of…

My thinking for D’mer in this scene is that he would not be that broken up ( on a personal level, anyway) over deaths in Seren’s house because he’s not that close to the rest of the staff. He deliberately distances himself, and most of them don’t approve of him anyway.

Page 1 of A Distant Soil #13, circa 1996. Our STORE button (above) has a complete collection of in print graphic novels. Or you can enjoy reading online, and hat tip me to show your pleasure.

Final page to A Distant Soil #12, circa 1996.

Circa 1996.

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