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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BruceB" data-source="post: 1084575" data-attributes="member: 6736">Actually, I just didn't want to spoil someone else's surprise. But now that I've got my author's copies of the Player's Guide to Fighters & Barbarians in hand, I see that he's already got some WW/SSS work in print. So I shall burble.You young'uns, he said from the distant heights of his late 30s, may not have seen some of the really great comics of the '80s. In particular, there's this guy named Tim Truman who both wrote and drew the post-apocalyptic adventure series Scout and was the defining artist and co-creator with John Ostrander of the cross-dimensional noir series Grimjack. It's difficult to overstate just how much I loved Truman's work on those (and other titles), and how much of an influence it's been on how I think about the whole uber-genre of dark-tinged action.Now, in the art notes for the Gamma World core book, I alluded in some descriptions to inspirations and examples including Truman's work, particularly for the figure that illustrates the Smart Hero basic class Gamma World-style and the Cybercologist advanced class. (She's a mutant, with one arm pretty well withered to usefulness, something exotic instead of regular eyes, and limbs agile enough that she can hold a small computer in one hand and type on it with the prehensile toes of the opposite foot.) A few weeks ago I started looking through the layout proofs for the book and thought to myself, cool, whoever's doing these basic and advanced class illos really got that Truman vibe. He's got a very distinctive inking style, and I was impressed at this artist's fidelity to it.Zoom in. Read signature. Blink. Blink blink blink.I don't know just how it came to pass that Tim Truman's doing art for SSS these days - he's illustrated the prestige classes in the Scarred Lands Player's Guides, and then these pieces for Gamma World. But I am really happy about it.</blockquote>

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