“Scarmen’s Burn” Pg 27
On this rather decisive note, Mercy brings “The Trail To Scarmen’s Burn” to an end. At a rather sprawling 27 pages, I was treating this story as something of my “western” bounty hunter epic and I enjoyed exploring the rough textures of the lands beyond New Gelaph’s walls. Even more, I enjoyed depicting Mercy’s toughness and tenacity in pursuing her quarry through it all.
Tomorrow we begin “The Rules of the Game”, which finds Mercy back on the more faniliar yet just as deadly streets of New Gelaph, where she will cross paths for the first time with another trekker and have to negotiate the tricky ground between competitor and collaborator. Especially tricky grounds when the two players don’t necessarily follow the same “rules of the game”!
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My introduction to Mercy came with issue #6 of her own title, picked up from a 50p bin at a comic mart in Leeds, West Yorkshire way back in the late 80s (probably – it was a long time ago, I know that). I struggled with it but liked the art so I hunted down the other five issues over time and thought that this one, the Scarman’s Burn tale, was the stand out of the bunch – and by a very long way. I loved this issue. I still do. It’s Mercy at her absolute best. I’ve recently read “Hunter’s Moon” and loved it for many of the same reasons. I’ve just ordered the latest book in the series, and when you get started on the one after that I plan on joining your kickstarter campaign. I produce a fanzine called PAST PERFECT and a few years back I reviewed all the Trekkers I’d read up until then (everything up to Avalon Bay). I’m going to be revisiting those reviews in the near future and bringing them up to date. Trekker is the best thing I’ve read in decades. Please keep up the excellent work – and don’t let anything bad happen to Molly; she and Mercy are the best pairing in comics since Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne.
Thank you so much for your loyal reading and support! I hope you continue to enjoy Mercy and Molly’s tales. I try my very best to make each new story connect with all that’s gone before, and yet take Mercy to her own “next chapter”. It’s kept me engaged for years now. No sign of stopping…