Innovation's '91 DS Comic, Book 2

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And here's the back cover:

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This and the back cover for Issue 2 are perhaps the the back covers for Book 2 that make the most sense because they feature most of the main characters from the story. As much as I love the character, Maggie was barely in things, yet she appears on the back cover of both Issue 1 and Issue 3. Though I do love that Julia appears on those same back covers...

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A bit of old business because when I made this post -

And here's the eleventh page:

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

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- without the dialogue bubbles...

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Though something that's odd is that there's no mention of the extra footage that's included on the tape. I wonder if when the '93 catalogue was printed that was something that wasn't planned yet? It is mentioned in subsequent catalogues, however...

There's a good chance that it may not have been known then because while going through SGs to make sure I'd caught everything about Book 2, I just came across this very small one sentence item I'd missed while initially going through SG #65 from July 1993:

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Oops!    I'd completely forgotten that in the "New DS:" section in the Home Video update from SG #65 that I'd shared in reply #187 it says, "An extra highlight is Episode #12, the last show, due 12-93. It includes more scenes filmed but not broadcast." Oddly, I made no mention of that detail when I posted it, though I must have read it. I guess it just went right out of my mind after I did. Though I did post a few different things in this topic that day, so maybe part of my mind was focused more on what still had to posted rather than what was being posted. And in my defense, it is but 2 sentences in a much larger update...

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And what appear to be the final Book 2 things to share from where we currently are with SG, here's a blurb for Issue 4 from SG #65:

I don't actually recall any living statues in Collinsport's cemeteries. The living statues all seem to have been on the Grimm sisters' property. There was the statue of Joshua in the woods - but that wasn't developed as being alive - though it would have been fascinating if Joshua had indeed become a living statue...

And here's what little October 1993's SG #66 shared about Book 2 and an update on what was happening with the Old Friends trade paperback:

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When I made this post -

Here's the first page -

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

- without the dialogue bubbles because I didn't find it until today...

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And when I made this post -

And here's the twenty-fourth page:

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

- without the dialogue bubbles because I didn't find it until today...

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Today I did a search of the Internet to see if any of Jose Pimentel's artwork from Book 4 might have shown up. Sadly, I didn't find any - but what I did find were several more pages from this issue. So, I'll be sharing them one at a time over the next several days.

When I made this post -

And here's the sixteenth page:

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

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- without the dialogue bubbles.

This page came from worthpoint.com, hence the W watermark...

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When I made this post -

And here's the eighteenth page:

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

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- without the dialogue bubbles.

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And when I made this post -

And here's the twenty-fourth page:

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

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- without the dialogue bubbles.

It's interesting that the original artwork for this page shows more on both sides and at the bottom, yet the artwork for the two other pages I've shared lately are both the same as what appears in the issue.

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And when I made this post -

Here's the twenty-third page:

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

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- without the dialogue bubbles.

The original artwork is back to being the same as what appears in the issue. But as I was making this post it dawned on me that the reason Page 24 is different from the others is because the artwork for it fills the whole page in the issue rather than it having a border in the issue, so that's likely why it originally showed more.

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And when I made this post -

A bit late, but here's the nineteenth page:

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- I hadn't found this version of the page -

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- without the dialogue bubbles.

[KMR]

Wow, that's a pretty bad sequence of panels in the bottom row of that page.

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If you mean the quality, I totally agree. But the cause seems to be the way the page was scanned. If one looks at my scan from the actual issue, the quality of those panels as well as the other three is much better. I have no idea what happened when the artwork page without the dialogue bubbles was scanned...

And BTW, I forgot to mention that that page is the last one I came across the other day. Though I do have something else I came across to share in the topic for Book 1...

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I went on a search to see if I could find a better scan of Book 2, Issue 4, Page 19 on the Internet. I didn't find a different scan, but I did find a different posting of the same scan and it looks a little better -

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- but that may simply be because it's a smaller version. Though what is interesting is that comicartfans.com, the site where I found it, also has two close-up scans of the artwork on the page. It has panel 1 -

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- and panel 3 -

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- and both of those scans are pristine, so it's a bit odd that someone scanned those so well but the entire page wasn't. But then, who's to say the same person did all the scans?

And what's also interesting is that apparently I'd missed a few other pages that have been scanned and shared on the Internet so I'll begin sharing those tomorrow...