Original Art: Space Bandits (Issue #5 | Page #34) by Matteo Scalera and Mark Millar
August 20, 2020
The Preamble
With the talented Matteo Scalera hitting pay dirt with the release of several pages of original art from his upcoming Harley Quinn Black + White + Red #6 over at Essential Sequential the other day, I couldn’t be happier for him. From the 10 pages that he released, I believe that only two pages remain (the last time I checked).
Scalar is largely known for the Sci-Fi drama Black Science (with writer Rick Remender), but I first became aware of his work when he collaborated with Mark Millar on Netflix’s Space Bandits that was released in 2019.
Page 34
After perusing through all of the available Space Bandits pages that gradually became available in the website of Scalera’s art rep Essential Sequential, this particular page caught my eye. Page 34 features all of the story’s principal characters with the Nibiruan White named Cosmo mixing drinks in Panel 1 and Orcadian Cody Blur and Thena Khole celebrating with a couple of drinks in the succeeding panels.
The printed art differs slightly as Panels 2-4 have been replaced by two larger panels (See below).
If you had a choice, which version would you have stuck with?
About
Tedi Villasor is—among many things—an indie comic book writer (Lindol, OBIsessions) based in the Philippines.
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