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posted 2010.02.02 at 19:03

20100120 (2) - Initial assembly from strips 125 - 128.

20100126 (4) - Rewritten, re-lettered. Flows quite a bit better now, I think. Also, stripped the Highmark logo off of Fifth Avenue Place in panel eleven - it wasn't there in 1997. UPMC getting ugly all over the USX also complicates the project - though that's something I can work around later. With any luck I'll get the major photo shoots for DCR.3 and DCR.4 done this spring and summer - some amount of my existing stock should work, though I'd prefer to do a Mount Washington shoot on a clear day.

In addition to cleaning up panel eleven, panels three through ten have been replaced. I love the aerial, I'll miss the aerial, the aerial rocks and it's period and despite being at least 10 years old, I can't in good conscience allow myself to use it in the comic. I've spent a good-sized portion of the past year or two purging material that isn't Definitely Mine (or Definitely Useable) from ATC... after I've finished with DCR.1b, I'll finally be able to move forward knowing that pass or fail, win or lose, it's mine. All mine.

DCR, anyway - I spent some time during the wrap of the first edition of The Dualist making sure all acquired assets were useable, though it's a check I should probably run again before I commit anything to paper.

Or commit myself - it ultimately depends on rather I rolled snake-eyes or box cars the last time I researched the matter.

The original bits are preserved in the photoshop file - if I ever get the usage thing figured out to my satisfaction I may roll back the visuals to the previous edition. In the process of getting this page tweaked to my satisfaction, I've blown almost my entire stash of viable downtown shots - I'll need to head out and pick up some more in the spring.