...but it's too far away for me!

I couldn't wait to get to this page. Yes, yes - as you know I love these ones. Sorry. These pages, for me at least, spell childhood and nostalgia. Which is really what the site is about. (Ohhhh, the self-indulgence!)

Artwork Notes

In blue felt-tip marker. No black left. I got a bit creative for a 9 year old here! What with Ben in silhouette and the battle conjured in Luke's mind raging behind him - like some old film noir. I don't recall seeing this treatment in any other adaptation. Oh, nor was it in the film. I forgot about that version! Sorry George.

But boringly, as if to compensate for such innovative brilliance, Luke appears in the two panels almost identically - except for his more yellowy complexion after hearing Ben's story. Ben himself - looking as weird as I could make him at such a tender age - leans in with a red patch on his temple. Having run out that golden colour - that I assumed was normal in California - and having tried yellow on the second instance of Luke - I must have reached for another marker to try on Ben and thought "Oops, too red. I better just leave him white. Maybe in few months I'll get another packet of markers for me 10th birthday?"

Some production process eh?

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