The Gloom - Week 31
Posted by TonyLee on Friday, August 8 2008 at 7:08 am
Well, it’s finally here - and there have been some changes… Let me explain the wait and the revised styles…
Basically it’s like this. When The Gloom #3 was cancelled, we’d pretty much finished the story, and inked / coloured the pages - but Rich Emms, who was the APC publisher (and the letterer) decided that due to APC closing and the book effectively dying, it wasn’t worth lettering the rest of the book (he’d lettered issues #1 to #3 already), and issues #3, #4 and #5 were never seen to the public.
Until now, of course. Which meant that when we reached the point of getting to #4, the first of the unlettered issues we had to letter it up ourselves , and this would involve lettering in a similar style to the first issues to keep in line with Rich’s earlier stuff.
But here’s there the delays and the style changes come in. Because yesterday (Thursday 7th August) we received an email from Rich telling us that as The Gloom was one of many comics still owned by APC (hence the fact it was never put back in print) it had taken until right then for APC to finally roll over and die. And, as part of the contract, when APC died? We got all rights to The Gloom back.
Which means that we now have the option to re-solicit it as a collected trade GN. And of course THIS means that we’ll be re-lettering the entire comic in a different style, closer to the letters in Hope Falls, as there were some early parts that we were never wholly happy with - which means that starting this week? We have new lettering and a new ‘Chapter’ guide for the last two issues.
I hope you enjoy. :-) Remember, NOBODY has ever seen these pages before today. Tell your friends. Tell publishers. Let’s gain some interest in this book, let’s have it printed!
Oh, and finally we can lay to rest the rumours that we may have stolen the idea of a group called ‘The Eleventh Hour’ from Orang-outang comics, considering that this comic was written in 2005… :-)
So enjoy the ‘Season Premiere’ of #4, a special, three page starter…
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