While I don't know that an intro from me will help the sales of this book, as I am not a hot name in comics, and never was, I am very happy to talk about the only comic I read regularly, DARK RED.

I worked only briefly in comics, or comix as we called them, for four years in the early 1990's. It is gratifying to see precisely the kinds of comix we had hoped to do in the mainstream today, especially as personified by Lynn and her associates who have an amazing comic which I hope you will all read and enjoy as much as I.

In our day, we had a pretty good number of artists with the skills to draw realistic looking people. Airbrush artists and painters, who used photographs in their work, were considered esoteric or rare, because computers were still barely used.

Perhaps because I am primarily a writer, I feel that the main thing that makes a comic work is the story. No matter how well drawn a badly written tale quickly pales, while a very crudely drawn story can still entertain. What Lynn does here is what we tried to do in panels like GENERATION SEX, which was to take a group of somewhat ordinary people, and add an element or two that makes the story special, above the level of a soap opera. Lynn generously added two levels to DARK RED, the supernatural element which allows for interesting spectacles, villains and challenges, and the challenge of having a blind protagonist, so we can ‘see' what the world looks like to someone without our vision. I love the strip and admire the work and dedication that comes with taking real people and making them real comics. I hope they'll go on forever and that you will read them all.

Tom Thornton

New York,
8th of March 2008