For some months now, I’ve been scanning Wendy’s original art pages, before delivering them to Columbia University’s graphic novel archive collection. Today, I worked on “Hidden Years” #4 and, oh, what a flood of feelings it unleashed. It was in this story that a barely teenaged Ember first pushed back against the protective (she would have said “overprotective”) envelope of Cutter’s concern. And now, in “Final Quest,” Ember is grown up, a chief in her own right, with concerns of her own that… Well, you know I never give away anything that could be considered a spoiler. Let’s just say, after finishing up issue #2 and sending it off to Dark Horse earlier today, the juxtaposition of then-Ember and now-Ember is stunning. Wouldn’t you just love to know what we know, he said, grinning wolfishly.
