Early Works Part 5 -- A Sarfeer's Tale Part 1

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This is the comic book version of the Hybrid-worlder. I drew it sometime in the later 1980's. I had penciled in the entire story, but only inked and wrote the first seven pages, that I can reproduce above and below.

The story changes in this version. The "glowing beastie" chances from a hybrid-world creature to the pet of a bookie/crime lord, who has sent the creature to collect credits owed from the female lead, Cesrie Mer, the powersmate off the rival celestial clipper Minery Var. The energy field of the Knyme-sooh prevents the beastie from carrying out its mission, after which Rhyl and Cesrie get to yarning --rivals, but in the same trade. However, after they slip out, the beastie is still about and chases them. Cesrie, having none of this, leads Rhyl to an in with a secret passage to a cave through the moonlet to the its hollow inner dockyard core and the beastie's master's headquarters where she intends to have some words with the bookie -- a childhood friend. There, they have a few words, and she suggest to the bookie that they put Rhyl on ice for a while, forcing the Shadow of Dreams to leave without its master navigator, and bettering the odds of the Minery Var's winning the race to Kantea-on, as a way of paying off her debt. In this version he escapes, I have considered variations where it ends with him being woken up (much later) aboard a tramp trader in the Inlowpar Cluster, and take up his story from there.

These panels were hand drawn and the text typed (lettering comics was another skill, and not something I cared to try) and pasted on to the panels with wax. If you're old enough and were in the printing or graphic arts trade, you might remember how things were done back before computers. A couple of the text boxes have lost their text, but I'm posting these more for the art than the story.

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