A little back-story about this comic. I wrote HARK as a manuscript about 2 years ago, so getting from a rough draft novel to a graphic novel has been a long process. This is the second time I’ve written a manuscript, only to decide later to adapt it to comic book form. The first was The Overman, which was eventually published as a comic book mini-series. I swore I wouldn’t do that again, going to all the work of writing a novel, only to later rework it into a comic book script, and yet here were are again. On the other hand, I think that crafting the story first in novel form ultimately lends an intrinsic weight and depth to the comic, in a way that a ‘direct to comic script’ can’t. Adapting a story in this way has also forced me to become a better editor of my work, forcing me to objectively evaluate the manuscript and discerning what’s important and what can be either eliminated or reduced in order to best serve that story.
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