The funky thing about strips being cached up to the 14th? Forgetting to post 'em!

I'd planned for this page to be one huge image of downtown, and had a really great one my friend Martin took from a B-17. Thing is, it has the new hideous Godzilla Jump Ramp convention center. It's ass ugly in that "ugly is the new black" style of architecture, so I'd plotted for some serious photoshop or dialogue positioning.

Then I stumbled onto a Betacam SP tape loaded with about 50 minutes of arial footage. Footage from roughly 1999, featuring too much of Three Rivers Stadium, lots of tunnels, totally avoiding the North Side (except for the stadium), and having lots and lots of useful establishing shots. It's period, it's almost perfect, and I'll be using it throughout the rest of the book.