{"id":840,"date":"2007-10-30T18:49:55","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=840"},"modified":"2007-10-30T18:49:55","modified_gmt":"2007-10-30T22:49:55","slug":"midnight-sun-gn-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Sun GN Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are winding down as far as <em>Midnight Sun<\/em> goes.\u00a0 The folks at SLG are looking over some low res comps of the book, and a friend has graciously volunteered to proof read the thing (thus saving me from my own terrible spelling), but beyond that, the book is pretty much done&#8211;so much so, in fact, that I cleaned my studio top to bottom.\u00a0 Feather duster, Swiffer, the whole bit.\u00a0 This is just a weird compulsive thing that I always do whenever I finish a comics project.\u00a0 Fortunately today, things wrapped up in the early afternoon; I&#8217;m strangely compelled to do this ritual, though, regardless of time and have in the past cleaned my studio at two or three in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The last item to pull together was the cover.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve got:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/10\/cover_ext_final.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"cover_ext_final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/10\/cover_ext_final.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"cover_ext_final.jpg\" class=\"imageframe imgaligncenter\" height=\"171\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The final design is a mishmash of Scott Saavedra&#8217;s design and the original design I did for issue one of the original comic book series.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still not really 100% happy with the circle bit on the back and the way it works with the two quotes below, but I&#8217;m not really sure what else to do at this point.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m struck by inspiration between now and when I have to upload the real press-ready files to SLG, I may tweak that back cover a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are winding down as far as Midnight Sun goes.\u00a0 The folks at SLG are looking over some low res comps of the book, and a friend has graciously volunteered to proof read the thing (thus saving me from my own terrible spelling), but beyond that, the book is pretty much done&#8211;so much so, in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=840\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-dy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}