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.

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.