Spectra page in progress

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I haven't talked about it here, because I hate to make promises I may not be able to keep... but I'm really trying to get a new FANTASY THEATER done in time for the SPACE con. The front half of the book is done: "The Song of the Siren", a Lady Spectra story written by me and drawn by Dan Kellaway. (I showed a preview page here a while back). I'm very pleased with the script, which (he said modestly) has some pretty sharp dialogue and a clever mystery angle. And Dan really delivered on the art.

The back half of the book will be another Spectra tale: "Cutody Battle",  drawn by me with a script by Jason DeGroot. Although it wasn't planned this way, I think it makes a nice complement to the solidly traditional "Siren" story; "Custody Battle" is a bit more somber and introspective than is typical for the strip. Although you can't tell that by this kinda wacky splash page:

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/52940319/

This partially-inked page gives you a pretty good idea of how crappy loose my pencils are. I'm actually farther along than it looks; I tend to jump around a lot when I'm inking, finishing a figure here, a building there, and then jumping to another page. At this point almost every page has at least some ink on it. I feel pretty confident I can get it finished in time, but of course there's a million factors out of my control that could crop up and mess up the schedule. We shall see.