Absolute Green Arrow #1D (2026) Cover Process/Prelim Pages by Tula Lotay

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One of the best and most singular artists of the modern age, Tula Lotay's instantly recognizable work is the result of an intensive process where she continuously adds to each piece with various mediums, scanning in the results and printing out fresh blue lines before adding more until she's satisfied. It's this process that gives her work its signature look and results in some fantastic comic art.

For the Dinah Lance page, we can see that Lotay has the figure down as it appears identical to the final cover, however she was still playing around the face and head at this point, defining the shading present in the blue lines with immaculate pencil work. For the Arrow Killer image, which would end up behind Dinah on the final cover, we see that he was initially facing to the right with the beautifully drawn skull mask sinking into a wonderfully evocative inkwash bath, calling to mind both the copious amounts of blood present in the story and the oily and all-consuming blackness of death. Both pages are signed by the artist. Mixed media over printed roughs on two sheets of heavy art stock. Both measure 11 3/4" x 16 1/2".