Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Shatter #1 Message-ID: <770@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 14:23:25 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.770 Posted: Thu Mar 7 14:23:25 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:26:32 EST Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 44 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 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 "I will not harm any vehicle or the physical contents thereof, nor through inaction allow harm to come to a vehicle or the physical contents thereof." -- The Repo Code