I'm not a regular cgc-boardster, but was pointed to this thread for obvious reasons.
IMO, congratulations on a project well done. You now have one of the best looking pages from that book, and I wouldn't be surprised to see more Jae post-inked pages showing up. I disagree with people that say it's no longer the original page and is now some type of recreation - you had the inker ink the page. The inker! And I completely agree with your idea to do it on the actual page. I'm not a fan of blueline inks unless it's a project where multiple inkers are doing their interpretation of an image, a-la the Big Wow auction pieces. We're not talking about a 5-figure 40 year old page. It's a several hundred dollar modern page who's brothers and sisters can be purchased at Albert's any day of the week.
If he had all day to labor over pages, and the page itself was the end result, I'd be willing to bet Jae would have inked them all for publication. But as technology advances, artists continue to explore ways to get published books out faster and more reliably. Some pencil and then ink digitally. Some pencil digitally and then ink manually. Some piece pages together panel by panel. Some drop-in digital backgrounds or digital zip-like tones/screens. But regardless of the specific process, the physical page looks less and less like the printed product.
I can see where people do not liked inked prelims - that is taking something that was meant to be in pencil form and changing it. But here, you had the time (not on a deadline) and money to revisit a page meant for inks, and allow the artist himself to fully express what he would have wanted the page to look. And not that you need more ammo for your side of the discussion, but look at the positive response Jae himself gave you. He could have said the the page was already finished, but instead he liked the idea.
andy robbins