Yup... it's all gone.
My hard drive crashed as I was trying to transfer files to a DVD a week or so back... and now I'm faced with the horrific prospect of starting over on my coloring chores from scratch.
Unbelievable.
I lost 4 years worth of work, files, and personal items...
I was trying to burn it all off to DVDs, but I guess I just wasn't fast enough... or fortunate enough to have more leeway.
Even with all that I have lost, it's the lost color work that stings the most... the final panel of page 4 had over 30 full figures in it (and even more partial background figures) and was perhaps the best color comic book panel I had ever produced to this point. Agonizing...
All that is left are the super-condensed files I posted here for feedback...
I can't even use them to re-create the original colors because of their bleached out tonality and severely pixelated textures.
No one could save the drive... and I even sent it to Drive Savers in California who are supposedly the best at that sort of thing.
I'm completely heartbroken and discouraged... maybe this is just a sign that this story was simply never meant to be... I've met setback after setback at EVERY stage of this book.
Perhaps someone is trying to tell me something...
Well...
FUCK whoever it is... I restart the color work this week anyway. This book gets done by the end of this year or I take a header off the Brooklyn Bridge...
PS: Eric gets all my DVDS... maybe I'll leave the Godzilla stuff to Justin. With the cash he'll get from selling it all off, he might even be able to commission a proper Kamen Rider Amazon Custom motorbike;)
