Art Notes: More nods to Chaykin

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Ok, I admit it. This might come as a shock but I might... (are you sitting down?) ...just might have copied some of Chaykin's work from the Marvel comic.

It just « feels unlikely that he slipped into my 1983 bedroom at night via a wormhole, to microfilm my precocious epic.

Still unconvinced of his innocence? Look, if Howie was capable of time-travel in 1977 he wouldn't have had to:

• Ink Issue#1 by himself due to severe deadlines.
• Or made the film look so odd! He'd have jumped forward to get proper production stills from after the film was made
• He would have asked for considerably more money
• Or, he would have said "keep your money and the job - I'm going to bet my life savings on the Kentucky Derby - or buy shares in 20th Century Fox."

And burn the negatives of Battle Beyond the Stars. But I digress... He simply couldn't do all of those things, because he couldn't time-travel.

ERGO: He probably didn't steal from my work.

So what does this mean? I think you've already guessed, readers. Simply put: by the most incredible coincidence, wee John, in a wee village in wee Ireland was coming up with some very very similar images in his own wee comic. It's funny because it feels so implausible.

A bird? A plane? A spaceship? It's a flying female reproductive system!

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