The Double Debut of "Closer To The Sky"

I have good news to report. I received an email from Joe Pruett of Desperado Publishing who sincerely apologized for the mistake in the printing of "Closer To The Sky" in Negative Burn #13. He's certainly done everything possible to make it right. In fact, he will be reprinting the story in issue #16 (hopefully) in the correct sequence with a blurb about the original appearance's mistake. That was very gracious of Joe to do, and Jeremy and I really appreciate his willingness to make right a printing accident that sometimes will happen.

So, look out for Negative Burn #16 with a scheduled ship date sometime in December.

The Dubious Debut of "Closer To The Sky"

Our latest story, "Closer To The Sky," hit the stands this past Wednesday in Negative Burn #13. I was so excited as I went to the store to pick up the first issue. I hadn't receive my printer copies yet, so I was eager to see how it looked. We are featured as the lead story in this month's issue, and it looked wonderful. There was a HUGE problem, though. One of the pages was out of sequence -- almost turning the story into complete nonsense. The "pay-off" shot which is the last page of the story was printed as page 2 -- with all of the rest of the pages appearing in proper order. Disappointed is too weak a word for how I felt about that. It totally ruined the story and the joy of getting it printed. Once we knew we were going to be featured as the lead, we carefully planned out each page so that the end would appear on the left-hand side and you would have to turn the page to see the pay-off after reading the whole story. It really ruined everything. My only consolation as an artist is that the printing looks wonderful, and at least it gets my work out. I'm sure many readers or reviewers will be utterly confused.