Donovan wrote:
psykomyko wrote:
I hope the moire (blurred dot-pattern) effects in some of these Leach panels are only in these scans, not the finished product.
I haven't read this story - are the benday dots meant to be part of a flashback?  If it's meant to be a comic-in-a-comic, it's great!

And I'm assuming that this is part of the finished product, as Cory would just send working files for previews, not print them out on a press, rescan them, and then send them. ;P


Nope, I don't mean the benday dots in the 1950s material (that stuff's perfectly accurate); I mean the "moire" effect in the background of the first page/last panel, the top and right-hand panels of the second page, and the building/dumpster/Miracleman on the third page. This effect happens when a dot-pattern is scanned at too low a resolution, photocopied from a copy, and/or a digital file is resized at a lower resolution. This is probably just on the JPGs here, unless these pages had to be scanned from the comics instead of the original art. It's possible to digitally erase and replace the grayscale tones without affecting the line art - I had this done on manga retouch back in the day, before Tokyopop's cheap/half-assed production became the standard - but as I'm sure you know it can be a real pain!

The MM Book 1 HC/TPB had better coloring/reproduction similar to what's been done on these new pages, but not this good!

Mike Hansen, The Geekiary & All Day Comics