The Killer Station of Deadly Doom – page 135
(Historical Notes: Okay, I want people to appreciate what’s happened for this one. For some reason, the original version of page was totally gone. I don’t just mean the full-sized master copy was missing and I only had the web-sized, or the edited version was missing completely and I just had the original scan, I mean it was ALL gone. Completely missing. I have no idea what happened, but my vague recollection is of some pretty cataclysmic file-naming errors where everything wound up being saved over by other stuff. All I know is, the original version of this page wasn’t anywhere on my computer at all. There a possibility that it MIGHT have been mirrored on my old Photobucket account, but the effort of even getting in to check that probably wouldn’t have been worth it, especially since I genuinely don’t remember when I quit using that as an image host. Instead, and I really want you all to stop and let this sink in, I dug a crate full of old drawings from this period, spend several hours rooting through the TOTALLY UNORGANIZED PAGES to find the original artwork, and re-edited the whole page from scratch. So if the speech bubbles suddenly look a whole lot more polished, that’s because it’s Present Me doing them instead of Past Me. I couldn’t do much about the panel borders, thought would have taken a lot more to cover up/fix than the word balloon, and I also can’t guarantee than this dialog is an exact replication of the original, as the text on the art was kinda hard to decode. That’s not JUST a dig at my own handwriting, I’d also partially erased the pencil before scanning the page… but yeah, my handwriting is pretty terrible when I know I’m the only one who’ll ever have to read it. The point is, this is the ONE Killer Station of Deadly Doom page where I did any meaningful re-editing… and a prime example of why I avoided it everywhere else. This was SUCH a time sink, and too much time has already been sunk on this project. You can’t say I never did nothing for ya’ll.)
See, I know I saved TKSoDD at one point in the past, but I’ve also had hard drive crashes and computer failures since then, but now I’m going to have to spend weeks going through terabytes of files on old hard drives I have packed away in boxes somewhere to find those files that may or may not still even exist, just to see what the original of this page said! So even more time is yet to be sunk on this project! 😀
update – it actually didn’t take long, I found a copy of it on my current hard drive…and…the jpg file is corrupted 🙁
Apparently the Universe does not want that original file seen for some reason. Conspiracy??
Which means now I really have to go through all my old hard drives to see if tyhere’s a good copy, of course!
At this point, the original comic file had better turn out to be some kind of treasure map.
I suspect that it somehow inadvertently contained some dark secret to unimaginable power so terrible that its very existence was rejected by the Universe. We’re all probably better off not knowing.