Hey Cliff,

I got my galleys of Greendale today and I immediately sat down to read it from front to back. In that first reading since the lettering proof I found myself most proud of the points you forced me to wrestle with during our collaboration. The sections where you and I had conflict but stuck it through and hashed it out until we were both happy. The pages where you said, “what we have here simply isn’t good enough”. Upon putting the book down I realized that the moments we rethought together are its most clear, successful and moving.

I’ve said it to you in private many times, but I want to say it in public. You made this book better. And not just with your clean line work, wonderful acting and humanist approach to character design, but with your uncanny story sense as well. You really pushed us to go back to the script and rethink major sequences, even when I resisted. For a guy like me, a writer who loves comic books but can’t fully create them alone, you proved to be a rare gift. The perfect collaborator. That artist that pulled himself out of the role of hired gun and took on the project with true, personal passion.

So if you’re ever feeling it, I’m down to do it all over again. CHA!

Thanks for the art,

Joshua Dysart

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Big day for Joshie!

So this Sunday a radio engineer came by my pad and we talked about process and the impact on culture that comics have had for a segment centered around the San Diego Comic Con. He even shot some quick video for possible web support. It was a lot of fun. It hits this Saturday, you can check for air times in your area here.

I’m sure you can download a podcast of it once it’s aired if you so desire. I sure hope so, because I’ll be at the con and I’d hate to miss my NPR debut.

The second chapter of the “Easy Kill” story line is not about how the reluctant American spy, Jack Lee Howl, fared on the night the ants came to eat him from the inside out. Nor is it about his constant struggle to stay out of the way of his own all-consuming past. It’s not about Moses setting out with a plan firmly in place to assassinate one of the most visible celebrities in the world. And it’s certainly not about how one bullet can move a mountain if it’s aimed in the right direction. In fact issue #9 is not about a lot of things.

Unknown Soldier… it’s not about violence being the answer.

As an added bonus, Superpouvoir has the first three pages of B.P.R.D 1947 up, and they look great!

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