Comics are a team enterprise. The writer may ask for changes to an illustration to maintain consistency. In this story, we wanted some small details corrected in the illustrations.

Comics are a team enterprise. The writer may ask for changes to an illustration to maintain consistency. In this story, we wanted some small details corrected in the illustrations.

There are validation steps that help us detect any errors that might slip into the illustrations, but we aren’t infallible.  In “The Auction” we were at the lettering stage when we noticed that Monarque was tying the bracelet onto Noren’s wrong wrist.

At the end of “Virus Part III,” Fabien, Benson and Jason are outside the hotel and Fabien asks where Marion is. But in the original script he asked where Volcanne was. We decided to make this change because we felt the trio had left Marion too quickly, seemingly with little thought for their colleague. This little adjustment was all that was needed to correct a flaw in the script.

Comics are a team endeavour. It sometimes happens that the writer will ask an artist to modify an image to enhance the overall consistency. We asked for several small touch-ups to this story: the impact of bullets on the wall, falling debris, some clothing details, cellphone towers, eyeglasses, etc.

Comics are a team endeavour. It sometimes happens that the writer will ask an artist to modify an image to enhance the overall consistency. In this story we asked the artist to add some panels—the equivalent of one full page—to make the characters’ movements on the battlefield very clear.

Comics are a team endeavour. It sometimes happens that the writer will ask an artist to modify an image to enhance the overall consistency. With this story we changed the order of two of the panels to make the scene flow more naturally.

Comics are a team endeavour. It sometimes happens that the writer will ask an artist to modify an image to enhance the overall consistency. In this story we felt that the body language in the drawings of Benson and Jason looked too casual for the conversation. They also lacked consistency with the following panel.

Comics are a team endeavour. It sometimes happens that the writer will ask an artist to modify an image to enhance the overall consistency. That happened with this story: a change was requested to accentuate the effect of Marion’s transformation.