This strip has been updated, too. Both 'Sevillian Job' and an upcoming story needed a wee tweak in the artwork department - for a while I persisted, but ultimately failed to gain any skill, with a Rotring fine point cartridge pen in the vain hope that it might make me something closer to a 'proper' cartoonist. We never hit it off, that pen and I, nor I and its replacement when it got clogged with pencil graphite. I switched back to cheaper fibre tip soon after, and it's with them that I've gussied up a photocopy of the original - completing outlines, rendering shadows and holding lines, and even filling in some details. Possibly some colour would help one or two bits, as well. Save that for the next edition, maybe?
Some background: the 'baddies' of this story are the Threshhold, a community of temporal machineers from the Eighth Doctor DWM 'Endgame' series by Scott Gray. They, pointedly, had Letratone faces - and I, pointedly, had no Letratone, so had to make do. In looking through the script for this story from Dave, I discovered that I'd omitted or dropped one of his suggested visual gags - that the marscapone (I'd never heard of marscapone then, or paella) had ingredients from Forester's (from Planet of Giants), which went some way to explaining the Threshhold agents' diminutive size. Imagine my total surprise when that idea reappeared in the recent Big Slug Fest! The Yeti - Toot - was another character dave and I occasionally discussed, as I recall. NOt sure what we had in mind for him, though.
Finally, the last panel is a rewrite, as the original was another small stepping stone that led to the last adventure for the Karkus (at the time.) It's not relevant anymore, so it's been given a revision, which also provided an opportunity for me to draw a better version of the lovely Shockeye.
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