Broken Frontier

Marvels: Eye Of The Camera was supposed to be the 10th Anniversary of the Marvels series by Kurt Busiek and artist Alex Ross. So when Eye of the Camera was announced in 2002 and heralded as the new Marvels - and especially with the amazing work of artist Jay Anacleto that was not a far stretch - it was the start of a long endeavour with the first issue out in 2008 and the last issue to be issued in 2010. Writer Busiek now posted the last page of art that needs to be colored on his blog with the following comment:

What you're seeing above is the final pages of Marvels: Eye of the Camera #6, drawn by the meticulous and amazing Jay Anacleto.

Not the last pages of the story, mind you, but the last pages of art to be finished. It's pages two and three of the issue; it was simply a complex enough shot that Jay saved it for last. It's already been lettered (from a partially-done version), as has the rest of the issue. And most of the issue's been colored, as well, so once this last spread is as well, the book will be all ready to go off to press, and appear in comics stores and get collected in a nice hardcover and all that. It's been a long, long journey (even longer for this much-delayed final issue), but the end has finally arrived.

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In the end, the quality of the artwork answers the "Why didn't they bring in a new artist" option, at least—this issue looks as gorgeous as the rest of the series, and when collected together it'll be so much better than if there was a sudden stylistic change along the way. Whether there were ways to speed up production or whether it was a feasible option to hold the whole series until now, I couldn't say.

You can read Busiek's complete story about the last phase of this project on his blog.