Yes, there is a final page count. I double checked everything after reading this article and I have to say I may need to re-scan everything. The problem is that I have a rapidly failing laptop and despite using my old A3 Mustek Pro scanner as I have always done, the scanned images are not good. All the settings are correct but the scans...awful.
If you have ever had to do a lot of scanning you will know it is often laborious and time consuming but with the old PC I could scan, edit and re-size easily using Microsoft Office Publisher (for the lettering) and Adobe PhotoShop. Those programs are not on the laptop and to buy them would cost more that getting a new PC as well as the fact that buying and putting them onto a laptop that is almost dead would be like throwing money down a drain. Oh, and then you have to have a bulk PDF program to convert and batch load your jpeg pages. Of course, you can upload each completed page individually to the POD (Print on Demand) company one at a time...almost 500 pages...I don't think I'll live that long!
So things are currently in limbo. Even the newer projects have completed pages gathering dust as they cannot be lettered. But that is how things currently stand as of 14th December, 2019
The final (providing I don't find another bridging page is needed) page count is in on The Green Skies.
Yes, I finished the last few pages and there are already 83 scanned (unlettered) pages.
Yes, I finished the last few pages and there are already 83 scanned (unlettered) pages.
As this is the final epic story-line from Black Tower and considering it began in 1987, I went all out.
438 pages
Yup. Considering the final part of the Invasion Earth Trilogy should have been out in June 2014 I feel proud to have outdone Glenn Fabry and even Brian Bolland on late delivery of a book!
There are 6 pages I just dumped because they were not up to much in my opinion.
The idea of splitting the project up into standard 20pp parts with back-up strips I ruled out as that would be 20 issues and 25 pp per issue would be 17 issues and I can't see people buying that many especially since they don't seem interested in buying single volumes!
440 pages will cost me £10.40 per copy and then I have to account for the POD company cut and so on but I want to keep the price low.
It IS black and white and that is because it would take a year to colour and the final basic cost for a 440 pp full colour book would be...
£63.10....any takers! LOL!!
83 pages already scanned so I have to dust off the old Mustek As Scan Pro and hope it manages. Even if it does there is the problem of WHEN the book would be on sale.
My old PC blew after almost 19 years service and that had my Microsoft office Publisher that I used for letter and sizing pages -the state of my hands means it is impossible for me to hand letter and I suspect that the macular myopathy might object, too!
The laptop is hardly functioning and no sales or money coming in means a PC is....a little fantasy at the moment (and buying Microsoft Office Publisher is WAY too expensive and...meh).
But the artwork will be scanned, cleaned as best as I can on the laptop and then sit there with 8 issues of Black Tower Super Heroes.
So the art is complete.
I'll be glad to see that out of the way after all these years and hope my eyesight lasts long enough for me to see a printed copy!
There. Up-dated as promised.
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