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One of my favorite art/sketch-related Web sites; my only regret is that it isn't updated more frequently, though I understand why.

Steranko's FF

I always thought this cover by Jim Steranko was the definition of cool and remain puzzled that it didn't grace an annual, a premium hardcover collection or an original novel ... but rather an index of Fantastic Four comics. Not to slight those indices; in the pre-Internet days (remember those?), they could be invaluable. Still ... I can't help but feel this one went underutilized. Check out more index covers here. (But I'll be honest with you: none of the other ones come close to this.)

From night to day ... instantly!

The events of the two most recent strips (weeks of October 19 and October 26) take place during the day, but the 10/19 strip was originally colored for night. This is entirely my fault, because Mike didn't have the script pages. So please excuse the housekeeping as we make a quick adjustment.

As a complete aside:

As of this writing, I'm reviewing Eduardo's pages as they come in and I am absolutely thrilled. As you can imagine, things will soon take a turn for the worse for all of our characters -- and Eduardo makes it all look so cool. Stay tuned, and thanks for reading!

Changes to our story thus far

As subscribers to our RSS feed have no doubt figured out, I've been making some changes to early pages in our tale. Among them:

• Adding Eduardo's take on the earlier strips originally illustrated by Scott Wegener. Scott's pages were awesome, but it rankled my obsessive-compulsive nature to have two artists here when it was (relatively speaking) easy enough to address this. I know comics change artists all the time, but there was another reason for this change. (See the next bullet point.)
• Inserting new pages into this early action. When the title was originally submitted to Zuda, they only accepted six pages (correct me on that if I'm wrong), so I had to do some trimming. The couple new pages here undo that trimming.
• Introducing a new sequence that touches upon Nancy's growing skepticism about the End Timers.

Every one of these pages has been sitting around ready to go for quite some time, so I'm happy to finally get them in here for you. Some still require minor tweaks, but this should be it for changes to this portion of the story.

As always, thanks for reading.

Well, THAT was fun ...

Many thanks to Web site guru Nollind Whachell for his able assistance in addressing this site's Web comics-based navigation issue. It still surprises me that site host Squarespace didn't have a ready solution to my problem, but fortunately enough Nollind came along to save the day.