From Ilke Hincer
Here's the 1-page 'Settlement' intended
for Dark Horse Presents #50.
Courtesy of Tony Lorenz
SETTLEMENT PAGE 1 (Unpublished)
(1991)
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| August 1, 2002 |
"Settlements" |
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From George Pérez
The page for "Settlement" was indeed intended to be part of a short story to
appear in DARK HORSE PRESENTS #50. Unfortunately, due to various
circumstances (an all-too common occurrence for me at the time) it never got
beyond the fully pencilled and inked first page, the rough pencils of page
two and the layouts of a couple more pages. It didn't have as much to do
with Terra-forming as it did with Earth's re-colonization to another planet,
which ends up being a living being that disguises itself as a violent,
deadly, uninhabitable world so that the humans would be forced to bypass it
and not do to it what they did to their own world. It was more of an
ecological sci-fi parable. The story was announced in the trades at the time
and it is probably that information that was used for the 1998 OVERSTREET
GUIDE.
The spaceships that were drawn in the "Settlement" splash did eventually
see print on page 21 of CRIMSON PLAGUE #2. I pasted in photocopies, leaving
the original intact.
To date, my only published Dark Horse work was the cover for COMICS' GREATEST WORLD #4.
(Vu: I mentioned that according to THE OVERSTREET COMIC BOOK PRICE GUIDE (28th Edition, June 1998), they erroneously listed DARK HORSE COMICS PRESENTS #50 as having a "S/F story by Perez".)
| July 27, 2002 |
Unpublished "Settlements" |
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From The Artist's Choice
DARK HORSE PRESENTS
Pencils and Inks by George Perez, Piece is Unpublished
"Settlements" $40.00
(Vu: No scan is given)
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