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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.comics
Subject: Shatter #1
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Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 14:23:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  7 14:23:25 1985
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Can it be that no one else has seen this excellent comic?  Or am I
hopelessly behind the times and missed the discussion?

_Shatter_ was put out recently by First Comics (who saved our Madison
favorite son, _The Badger_).  The artwork and lettering is done entirely on
an Apple Macintosh by Michael Saenz.  And if you think you can't be
impressed any more by drawings done on a Mac, check this out.  He's done an
amazing job -- many of the pictures look like they were digitized from
photographs.  The inside cover gives some inside information on the
production of the magazine.  They don't say, but apparently it was all done
with MacPaint, one page per MacPaint picture.  Color was done with an
airbrush.  They say "we could create the color on the Mac, but it would
take far, far too much time."  Any ideas what they had in mind?  I haven't
seen any attempt at color on a Mac.

The story by Peter Gillis is set in the future (several centuries from now,
I think) and is about a guy whose Arabic name Sadr is pronounced "Shatter".
He, like many others, lives by taking temporary jobs through a centralized
computer job search, and the police department is one of the big employers.
He decides to go for the big money by going after a (beautiful, of course)
woman wanted for murder.  Reminds me a bit of Blade Runner.  The story was
enjoyable, but it's the art that really stands out.

Shatter will be featured in _John Sable, Freelance_ for now, but will
eventually have its own title.  (This one is billed as a special issue.)  I
don't know whether you can order direct from the publisher, but in case you
can't find First Comics in your area, the address is:
	First Comics
	1014 W David St
	Evanston Illinois
		60201

The price is $1.75 US, $2.25 Canadian.

P.S.  I'll leave the letter grading to the regular reviewers!
-- 

Bill Kelly
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