THE EXPATRIATE #5

As yet unpublished, the fifth issue of THE EXPATRIATE was set to kick things into some awesomely strange new directions. Here's a direct scan of the top half of a page from that issue, which Jason Latour gave to me some time back. I'm a longtime Beatles fanatic, which he's well aware of.

I should mention that the Beatles poster wasn't just there as an homage. The Beatles appearance in Washington, D.C. during the time of the story was an important piece of the puzzle...

Click HERE for a larger look.

ANTHEM headers

A bit ago I posted a link to an earlier blog entry on Twitter, featuring Toby Cypress's original designs for ANTHEM (which became BATTLE HYMN after Roy Thomas complained about the title, and when Jeremy Haun stepped in to revamp the concept with me). I actually have three inked sample pages from Toby, but the only copies I have are from badly scanned faxes. Still, here are two tiers that show off his take on things.