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A peek at the issue currently on the board. . .

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Wilson Mui
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Nice page.  This guy is a killing machine!
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Victor Manuel Fernandez Patiño
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I love the inking! Look at that face at the last panel! Amazing!
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Love the contrast with the snow and night sky. The heaviness of the flurries works on the reader subconsciously to show how it might help obscure their view (and cover his body) making it easier for him to sneak up like that. I don't know if you have any dialogue planned for this page but there is a certain tension with the silence of it that I really like---really reminds me of the silence that sometimes comes with heavy snowfalls where everything is still or moving more slowly.
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Eric Ladd
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JB, was the snow effect added with computer or did you temporarily hire someone to ink the background? =)
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It looks fine.
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Andrew Hess
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This project is really getting me excited to buy a comic again.
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Marcel Chenier
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I am going to have so much JB stuff to buy when I get back to North America next Spring!  Yowza!
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Kevin Brown
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Waiting for this series to appear is agony....  It looks awesome.
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JB, was the snow effect added with computer or did you temporarily hire someone to ink the background? =)

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The snow is done in Photoshop, with a variant of the method I used to do stars in my TREK books. Principle difference being that there are "foreground" and "background" flakes.

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I love the inking!

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Like the rest of COLD WAR, this was done (counter-intuitively) with the thinnest point (XS) PITT pen. All except Swann's shoulder, in the last panel, which I decided did not need a "delicate" touch, and so I took up the brush pen for a few quick slashes.

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I get a Simonson vibe from that last panel.
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