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.

“Happy To Be Alive” was originally supposed to have five panels in the last strip. But the illustrator forgot one panel in the original version and then later made the correction. However, we decided to move the panel to emphasize the solitude aspect. Click on the image to see the three panels.

It sometimes happens that dialogue is cut from a scene once the page is put together. Here’s a passage from “Baptism of Fire” that you didn’t get to read in the comic.

It sometimes happens that dialogue is cut from a scene once the page is put together. Here’s a passage from “On the Outside” that you didn’t get to read in the comic.

It sometimes happens that dialogue is cut from a scene once the page is put together. Here’s a passage from “Embezzlement” that you didn’t get to read in the comic.

Transposing an idea into a drawing isn’t always easy. Very, very often, the drawing goes beyond the scriptwriter’s vision. But sometimes, the result isn’t as powerful as the image the scriptwriter had in mind. That doesn’t mean that the drawing wasn’t well done, but rather, that it’s lacking some spectacular effect. See, for instance, the first version of the explosion of the canon-buyers’ car in Bordeaux.