about halfway done with the inks. Those trees in the first panel were a bit crazy.

Yea, sorry about that...I tend to go overboard.

Godammit Hunter! Where the hell is the poem supposed to go! Allen, feel free to Vince Colletta all that detail.

Just kidding!!!!! But seriously where is the type supposed to go? Should I use scroll like boxes and just cover up stuff? Let me know where you guys want it to go.

That was when I tried to e-mail you about the lettering stuff...and it got kicked back to me.
I'll try again...

So this is the working breakdown of the poem so far...


cap 1:"If there is one job I would not desire
It is that of Lord Charon"

Cap 2: "Who ferries the dead
To the lands of the dead"

Cap 3: "Where there is fire
And the gnashing of teeth"

Cap 4: "Rather it would be"

Cap 5: "Instead
For me"

Cap 6: "The ferrying of the living
To the beach"

Cap 7: "Where there would be Dancing"

Cap 8: "And bbqing beef"


If you needed to you could combine caption 1 and 2

and maybe captions 4 and 5.

We also need a credit box as well.

Now the hard part...where do we effectively put the captions boxes?

I do like your idea of the scrolls, I think that'd fit this page nicely.

So this is the working breakdown of the poem so far...


cap 1:"If there is one job I would not desire
It is that of Lord Charon"

Cap 2: "Who ferries the dead
To the lands of the dead"

Cap 3: "Where there is fire
And the gnashing of teeth"

Cap 4: "Rather it would be"

Cap 5: "Instead
For me"

Cap 6: "The ferrying of the living
To the beach"

Cap 7: "Where there would be Dancing"

Cap 8: "And bbqing beef"


If you needed to you could combine caption 1 and 2

and maybe captions 4 and 5.

We also need a credit box as well.

Now the hard part...where do we effectively put the captions boxes?

I do like your idea of the scrolls, I think that'd fit this page nicely.

My suggestion would be, instead of boxes for the captioning, to use a two-point black outline stroke on white text and set the stroke's attribute to "behind fill."

A possibility yea.

Actually. There is already enough going on, that could look cluttered, I'd hate to have the text get lost.

It's probably better to use simple black or white boxes.

What I was asking before was, did you have specific areas already in mind for the captions? If not that's ok, I'll figure out something. I just didn't want to cover up the wrong stuff, if you had areas in mind already.


And do we have a title?

As far as the credits, is this OK...

Alex Ness - words
Hunter - pencils
Douchbag - inks
Me - letters

Correct you name to how you want it.

I think Alex originally mentioned:

"Adapted from a poem by Alex Ness"
Hunter-Pencils
Allen Montnecro(whatever)-Inks
You-Letters.

As as the areas where the captions would go...yea I'm thinking on that...trying to figure it out...maybe i'll go and take this into photoshop and red pen some areas than post it here so you guys can weigh in on it.