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FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: EMPOWERED AND THE MASK CITY MELTDOWN (pt.4): Guest Artist cover art!
🕑 Added 2022-04-22 13:00:09 +0000 UTCBehold, the initial work stages on the cover illo for issue #1 of an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown, which I initially wrote with one particular artist in mind back in 2017 or so; alas, that first artist didn't end up working on it, so I pitched it to the excellent artist Rob "Robaato" Porter, who had earlier colored a bunch of Emp covers for me.
Alas, we never never quite able to get the miniseries' scheduling worked out, so Rob had to bow out of the gig... but not before doing some preliminary art for the issue #1 cover, based on my rough seen in an earlier post. I worked up some suggestions & correx based on his first draft, which led to this nearly final image:
Bit of an old-school Ms. Marvel feel to that Emp, huh? Nice!
Anyhoo, the last two pics in the gallery above (after my initial rough, which I just tacked on) were Rob's tests on doing some "damsel in distress" imagery in both B&W...
...and in color:
Once again, nice! (Oh, well.)
After Rob had to turn it down, I abandoned the project entirely, though I did briefly consider drawing it myself as part of Empowered vol. 12, a plan which was soon abandoned in turn as I had no interest whatsoever in drawing all the many, many urban environments this story would've required.
Howeva, guess what? I'm going to begin serializing Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown on this here Patreon later on in the month, using my freakishly tight three-color(!) page roughs and excerpts from my full scripts for the two issues. Yay? (FWIW, the story does feature some funky revelations about the nature of Emp's nameless city, and also hints at a change to the series' status quo that's a key feature of Empowered vol. 12.)
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: Not sure, TBH, as my post buffer is presently nonexistent, but you can rest assured that something will be going up on Monday.
Comments
KranberriJam
These pieces are great! Shame it didn't work out.
MisfitRogue
Holy shit I would have loved for Rob to do this short. What's left is awesome Edit: Just noticed Rob had her ass out in his sketch lmao!
Strypgia
Getting a bit of an Ultraman vibe from the Kaiju-sized Emp.
Pat Bryant
Speaking for myself, I'm here for the Emp and comic-related content. The other is interesting too, but less so. π
Vince Grey
Speaking for myself, I'm here for the DiD content. The other is a complete waste of time and resources, IMO.
applewifey
emp looks so cute Q_Q
Burninator
Wait, "more butt coverage"? Has Emp been sneaking notes in or something?
The Silver Socialist
Rob's black and White EMP was THICC.
Dean Reilly
With his shocked-looking face! π
Aidenke
I'd heard about this potential project from Rob way back in the day - super-excited to see what the story behind it all was meant to be.
Adam Warren
You are allowed!
TF Commando
I love seeing the Demonwolf in a silver age-style head circle.
Tim Price
Allow me to say: Yay!
