Shadow’s Depths Page 9
Finding Jasper Again
This week in Dystopia: Shadow’s Depths, Bradson’s encounter with Jasper moves beyond introductions. Frazier still sees a potential threat. Bradson is beginning to look beyond Jasper’s appearance and pay attention to what he is actually saying and doing. Despite the red eyes, strange facial tendrils, enormous bat-like wings, and everything else that makes Jasper distinctly inhuman, his behavior remains calm and diplomatic.
That contrast sits at the center of both the page and this week’s Patreon essay.
Following Jackwraith’s recent Patreon essay about the origins of Jasper and the Morlocks, ALFA looks at the visual history of the character, including an original depiction from Dystopia Chronicles #4. The essay explores how ALFA and Jackwraith revisited those early interpretations and worked through the details of the Jasper readers are meeting today. Thirty years after Jasper first appeared, the character is still evolving.
Readers interested in extended creator commentary, the history of Dystopia, and the process of bringing decades-old characters into the current comic can find the full article on Patreon.
