A Tour Through the Art Gallery, Part 6: More Patrick Gleason

Over the years, I've accumulated a few pieces of original comic book-related art. Nothing compared to the collections of some of my friends, admittedly, but there's some interesting stuff in there nonetheless. So, in my constant (and constantly failing) effort to keep this blog updated on a semi-regular basis, I thought I'd share some of them with you. Join me, won't you?

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a page from the 2004 AQUAMAN run that I wrote, with pencils from Patrick Gleason (and inks from Christian Alamy). That was from issue 15, which was our first (of eight). Here's a page from a little later in the run, issue 17 to be exact (and page 11 to be even more exact).  No words on this original page, but what just happened is that Aquaman has revealed to all the former surface dwellers living in Sub Diego (formerly San Diego) that they now breathe via gills and can never go home again. His telepathic balloon says "I'm sorry," and everyone else's says "NO!" Sad scene, sure, but a beautiful splash page by Pat, with an insane amount of scene-setting detail rendered clearly and cleanly, adding to the power of the moment instead of distracting from it.
You can't have this page (Pat gave it to me, generous guy that he is), but you can have the colored and lettered version included in the just-released AQUAMAN: SUB DIEGO trade paperback that collects our entire run, including the Alan Davis covers and some pencil pages by Pat. Read more about it here. (How's that for a shameless plug?)