Chase #3, Page 19

Artists: J.H. Williams III (Penciller) , Mick Gray (Inker)

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Title:	Chase #3, Page 19
Artist:	J.H. Williams III (Penciller)
Artist:	Mick Gray (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	425
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Comments:	0
Added to Site:	2/19/2019
Comic Art Archive:	Chase Issue: 3 Page: 19 View

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I decided recently to indulge my appreciation for the art of J.H. Williams III and my love of the short-lived but wonderfully crafted Chase series of the late 1990s by picking up a couple of boards from the book from an online art dealer. I chose this one because it features a version of the Suicide Squad. I've been a big fan of the concept of a black-ops team comprised of incarcerated super-villains; here, we see Bolt, Killer Frost and a much more serpentine Copperhead have been reluctantly recruited for a mission in Russia.

Williams' penchant for unconventional page layouts is apparent here, given the circuitry-themed panel borders and designs in the upper part of the page. Also impressive is inker Mick Gray's use of black ink and whiteout to convey the smoke effects in the last two panels. I love the texture of those panels as I run my finger lightly over the board.

The lettering for this book was by Comicraft, which had introduced and embraced computer-generated lettering in the mid 1990s. But production technology apparently hadn't caught up with the method at this juncture, as we still get a vintage-board element here with pasted-on lettering. The versatility and creative contributions of lettering is abundantly apparent on this page, as we get four distinct lettering styles: for regular dialogue, Frost's dialogue, a crisp font for narrative captions (see Panel 1) and for the Construct's digital mischief in the middle of the page.

Other noteworthy vintage, pre-digital production traits of this wonderful board include a copyright stamp on the back, alignment tape marks (the register at the top has fallen off, leaving a remnant of yellow/orange adhesive), the presence of leftover blueline pencils and dual page-numbering notes at the top right corner (this is Page 19 of the story, but Page 25 of the comic, including ads and other pages). Also worth noting is that the laptop image in Panel 3 is a photocopy of the one in Panel 2, with a piece of paper pasted over the monitor part in the second instance to remove the image of the Construct (the A.I. villain is still visible through the paper).

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