The insert in the front of the bag states:
"This beautiful book features pin-ups by some of the industry's leading cartoonists and illustrators. Inspired by the series A Distant Soil, famed creators David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Mike Kaluta (The Shadow), Charles Vess (Ballads and Sagas, Sandman), Dave Sim (Cerebus), award winning science fiction artists Frank Kelly Freas and David Cherry, manga artists Tolmoco Tanaguchi and Buichi Terasawa, David Mack (Kabuki), Trina Robbins (A Century of Women Cartoonists, Wonder Woman) and many others have all contributed to this volume.
Included in this special edition, a signed, numbered, limited edition acid free print created by A Distant Soil artist/writer Colleen Doran, as well as an acid vfree certificate of authenticity, and a limitation sheet signed by a selection of Images of a Distant Soil artists such as David Mack, Walt Simonson, Caesar, Trina Robbins and Jim Valentino.
A Distant Soil has received wide critical acclaim as one of the finest comics in the industry, cited by The Years Best Fantasy and Horror as among the best comics of 1994 and lauded by Combo, Wizard, The Midwest Book Review, POP magazine, The Comic Buyer's Guide, Sassy and many others."