A few more thoughts on Sisterhood of Steel. I thought the worldbuilding done by Marx was phenomenal. The narrative flow was a bit disjointed at times. Individual pieces were interesting and done well, and as a whole it seemed to almost be a novel trying to be parsed out into a comic book with individual issues and sometimes the individual issues didn't work even though as a whole the story being created was an interesting one. Vosburg's art tends to be hit or miss with me, some of it I like a lot and other times it just doesn't click with me, and the art here was a textbook example of it for me. Some sequences were excellent in terms of storytelling, panel composition, page composition, dynamic anatomy, and just attractive art, and others were just a hot mess in all those aspects. Not sure if it was deadlines, trying to execute a script that was perhaps asking for too much or not giving enough for a comic book page to hold, lack of enthusiasm on the artist's part (though as co-creator you would think he would be invested), a creative butting of heads on how that part of the story should work, or what, but the art was a roller coaster throughout the 8 issues, and I think having someone else ink his work might have helped. I noticed when researching the Eclipse follow up OGN that there was a different artist involved, but I don't know if that was due to creative differences between Vosburg and Marx, economic reaslities of moving from Epic to Eclipse, or just plain scheduling issues if Vosburg had taken other work.

All in all, I would call the Epic series a noble failure that ended with a lot of untapped potential that could have turned the tide on that assessment.

-M

PS I Am also curious about the newsletter Christy Marx produced for the series and wonder if anyone here ever saw any of the issues. There was a lot of backmatter that appeared in the letters column doing more worldbuilding that was interesting stuff, and there was supposedly even more in the newsletters, but I don't know for certain.