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Group "First Look" interview with the creative team behind D'Arc Tangent, an independently published science fiction love story about a woman and a robot set against a war that began eighty million years ago. Foglio describes conceiving the story seven years earlier from a sketch of a robot with a sword, shopping it unsuccessfully to underground publishers, and finally self-publishing after collaborating with Freff and recruiting Chris Claremont as a story consultant. They discuss their publishing model of keeping every issue in print, following the trail blazed by Elfquest, and their ambition to create genuine science fiction in comics capable of winning Hugo nominations. Singer, an associate SF editor at Berkley Books who serves as publisher, describes the steep learning curve of dealing with distributors, while the team explains their plan for a roughly sixteen-issue run that weaves multiple prologues and subplots into a novelistic whole.