Panel 109 shows just how vital shading and hatching are to pencil work. It's why Melkormancin's work continues upward; getting better and better with each title.
This is the same attention to detail that made Eleuteri Serpieri's Morbus Gravis featuring his star character Druuna so revelutionary in the 80's and early 90s. It certainly lent notiriety to Heavy Metal magazine at the time.

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