In this page The Mark begins his epic journey from
fictional Lutzany to The United States of America, specifically Manhattan. The
writer, Mike Barr devoted almost a third of issue one to this journey; I
balked, wanting to devote more space to the re-introduction of The Archon, his
wife(?) Helda and the ensuing fight sequence. So I took it upon myself to
condense the travel sequence to four pages. starting with this one. Mike was
pisssed, said if I was going to take those kinds of liberties with his script,
that he would prefer to do things "Marvel Style", i.e., giving me the
broad "get from point A to point B without providing me with specific
action beats or dialogue. That was fine by me.
This is page #9 from "The
Mark" volume 2 otherwise known as "The Mark In America",
published by Dark Horse Comics in December 1993. Written by Mike Barr, Drawn by
Brad Rader
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