Dead@17 THE FIRST NARA "GODSPELL" KILDAY!!!

Well, I may not own the first Superman, but I do own the first Nara Kilday!!! This page features the first concepts for Nara Godspell, who would soon be renamed to Nara Kilday, the heroine from "Dead@17". For those that want the full story, hunt down a copy of The Dead@17 Archives. The reason for the three different versions is that originally Mr. Howard had the idea of Nara "genre-hopping", with sci-fi one month, horror the next, and so on. For those reading the present series, you can see some of the ideas are being played out as we come to the end. As you can see, this sketch page was part of a larger sketch book(a.k.a. Big Yellow) that had seen better days. Spoke with Mr. Howard at C2E2 recently and asked him about the coffee stain on many of these pages. He said that was from where water leaked in and stained the pages when he was living in his car (he's doing better now though).