The art work on the inside cover of most comic books is usually filler, something to act as a backdrop for the business of copyright notice and other text. Often the line art from the cover, or from one of the panels in the issue, will be re-used for this purpose. But in the first issue of Quest for the Last Tree, I didn’t want to waste a single page, so I asked Noor to create a special work of art just for the inside cover. This is the amazingly evocative image that he came up with, a subtle foreshadow of things to come: