'll update tomorrow with some behind the scenes stuff, but holy smokes, we did it! We got started!

Lettering is a pain, I'm not really set up for lettering at all, my keyboard shunted aside to make space for the Huion tablet, and the glasses I'm wearing that I use for drawing are a focal length that works on the page but the monitor is so far away I need my other glasses. Probably should have just changed glasses rather than staggering on.

I forgot to scan the pencils! So no pencils for this page. But, partly that's cus I was excited to start and partly because, well there wasn't that much pencils.

Here on this page, we meet the Salvage ship our haunted little tale begins on and we see the frankly terrifying Black Omega - Terran Omega's ship.

I'm noodling a series bible for myself on this story (er because I'm a massive nerd) and so let me tell you now, there are things I've written done that don't even appear here yet and hopefully if this goes ok we'll get to them. The Pilots. Intergalactic cops, a la, Lensmen or human green lanterns, but not quite what they seem. The planet destroying capabilities of the Black Omega (powered by a black hole that just rips it through space - the star travel equivalent of a dirty diesel engine, Terran Omega tries not to use her, or her on board AI, but sometimes you've got to hop across galaxies.) aliens, and the scrap yard ship here use various technologies for interstellar travel. Mostly the bubble drive, forming a little bubble in space time, allow you to move through vast distances in a self contained bubble of space time.

I've loved the use of green spot colour since I was a wee lad reading british comics, a common trick using green or blue or red. Then, many years later (in er... 2007) Casanova by Matt Fraction and Gabriel Bà came out and it was gorgeous (also the perfect comic format, 16 pages with back up material... oh to do a monthly book like that...)

Anyway, here's the start - tbh I should draw a dozen pages and palm them out one week at a time, instead I'm sitting on the edge and giving you this page about 30 minutes after I finished added the lettering...