“Beautiful” was one of the most beloved stories in the series. I enjoyed drawing it and using the odd fact that Rommel had served in Transylvania during the first World War. Well, we know where that had to go, don’t we?
It sold out within a very short time.
Woot! I’ve been wanting to read this story for years! Only know it as legend.
@lee, you too?
lee kennedy & hswoolve: That’s appropriate — it’s full of legends! I hope everybody has as much fun with it as I did.
See that hill they’re on? That’s a clearing/cliff near the top of the Wagon Wheel trail by Lake Cushman on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. It’s beautiful, but one of the great mountain-climbers listed it in a guide as “brutal.” Dan and I didn’t find this out until afterwards…. let’s just say that afterwards NO trail seems rough or challenging. We scared a forest ranger when we came back down and he saw our skin color.
One of the things that impresses me most about the entire Peach saga is the way it starts as a fairly broad comedy, and ends (up to this point at least) with Pfirsch in the afterlife, it has almost fantastical stories like “Beautiful” in the middle and yet its still recognizably the same series! They just don’t clash at all or smack of some kind of awful re-tooling, they just merge seamlessly one into the next. That’s seriously some feat of writing.
Michael: Thank you! You have to thank my characters, though — they’re in charge. I’m just management. I write what they tell me. No, I’m not being funny — ask any author if their characters don’t run their lives. The advantage might be that I’m the author, not just the artist or writer, or genre hireling for an industrial character. It’s more work, admittedly, but I like the way it works.