(June 1998)

Image, 1996 Series
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Price
3.95 USD; 6.00 CAD
Pages
52
On-sale Date
1998-08-05
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Image Comics
Brand
Image
Editing
Mary Gray (editor)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

A Distant Soil / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Colleen Doran (signed) (painting)
Inks
Colleen Doran (signed) (painting)
Colors
Colleen Doran (signed) (painting)
Letters
typeset

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Jason; Seren [Rieken]
Reprints

What Has Gone Before (Table of Contents: 1)

credits, title page / 1 page (report information)

Script
Colleen Doran
Pencils
Colleen Doran
Inks
Colleen Doran
Letters
typeset

Characters
Seren [Rieken]

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Includes recap. Small illustration of Seren reprinted from cover.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

A Distant Soil / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Colleen Doran
Pencils
Colleen Doran
Inks
Colleen Doran
Letters
Colleen Doran

First Line of Dialogue or Text
The Avatar's Apartments.
Genre
science fiction
Characters
Jason; Ninivir; Liana; Seren [Reiken]; D'Mer; Kovar; Brent; Corrine; Dunstan; Minetti; Reynaldo; Serezha; Bast; Chris
Synopsis
Seren and the rebels take Chris's body back to his quarters. He directs D'Mer to execute Jorvanna for trying to poison him. The rest of gang hold an Ovanan funeral ceremony for Chris. Meanwhile with Ninivir's help, Jason makes his way into Seren's chambers.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Ovanan and On / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Colleen Doran
Pencils
Colleen Doran
Inks
Colleen Doran
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from "TJ" Tom Jaramillo; Randi Mason, Daniel, Lucy McCahan and Allan Harvey. Small illustration of a selwit reprinted from cover.

Original Art for Sale (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

A Distant Soil Sketchbook (Table of Contents: 5)

A Distant Soil / illustration / 3 pages (report information)

Script
Colleen Doran
Pencils
Colleen Doran
Inks
Colleen Doran
Letters
typeset

Genre
science fiction
Characters
Sere; Bast; Reiken; Liana; Serezha; Chris

Indexer Notes

Sketches done for the remarqued A Distant Soil hardcover edition as well as unpublished pages.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Neil Gaiman's Troll Bridge (Table of Contents: 7)

comic story / 13 pages (report information)

Script
Neil Gaiman (writer); Colleen Doran (adapter)
Pencils
Colleen Doran
Inks
Colleen Doran
Letters
Colleen Doran

Genre
horror-suspense
Synopsis
A boy meets a troll under a bridge who threatens to eat him. The boy persuades the troll to let him go on the promise that he will return in the future to be eaten. Many years later, he returns and the troll takes his life and becomes him. And he becomes the troll.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Ephemera / in-house column / 5 pages (report information)

Horus Shadow Reigns (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

Shadow Reigns / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Bucconeer (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Big News! (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

Doc Stearn...Mr. Monster / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Savage She-Dragon #51 (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Savage Dragon / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Neil Gaiman's Troll Bridge (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. [no title indexed]
    A Distant Soil
  2. 1. What Has Gone Before
  3. 2. ["The Avatar's Apartments."]
    A Distant Soil
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Ovanan and On
  5. 4. Original Art for Sale
  6. 5. A Distant Soil Sketchbook
    A Distant Soil
  7. 6. [no title indexed]
  8. 7. Neil Gaiman's Troll Bridge
  9. 8. [no title indexed]
    Ephemera
  10. 9. Horus Shadow Reigns
    Shadow Reigns
  11. 10. Bucconeer
  12. 11. Big News!
    Doc Stearn...Mr. Monster
  13. 12. Savage She-Dragon #51
    Savage Dragon
  14. 13. Neil Gaiman's Troll Bridge
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Boris Ammerlaan
  • Valmiki Annamanthadoo
  • mike clark
  • Ramon Schenk