The Venger vs the Wolfman

I'm continuing my look at the stories I'll be including in next year's The Venger Special. So far we've seen the cover choices by Marco Rudy and a couple of the finished art pages from Matt Zolman's "Crossfire" story. Also included in the book will be a prose short story of the original Venger. Written by Barri Lang, "Venger vs the Wolfman" is a great period piece and really invokes the old pulp novel feel. Artist Sam Crouch will be contributing several spot illustrations to go with the Barri's story as well. Here is the title piece, built around the style of an old time circus poster. I'll post a couple more later down the line.

The Venger Special- update 2

Last time I posted a cover image done by Marco Rudy for the Venger Special. Here is another version of that cover image. On this one Marco threw some red color to the blank background. The final decision hasn't been made yet on which one that will be used. I'll wait until we are almost done with production to finally decide. There are some more tweaks to it and photoshopping that will need to be done. I have a certain look I'll be going for, something  that will remind the reader of the old pulp novels.

Another Peek

Ok folks here is the final look for the Black Shroud, the villain that will be appearing in The Venger: Sins and Secrets #3 and #4. Brett made just a couple of tweeks to the other design to knock it out of the ballpark. When I was creating the character I had a few ideas on the design and sent them to Brett. And with a series of emails back and forth we were able to work on this until we got something we both really like.

I'll post some more on these issues in the future- I am way behind on getting the plot to Brett because of lots of real life stuff. But once we get cracking on it expect to see more.

Public Enemies

I'm really looking forward to this movie. I'm a big fan of period pieces like this as well as both Depp and Bale. These guys are two of the most intense and powerful actors out there today. I have read a few advance reviews online and all are superb. This should be great- don't expect it to do Transformers numbers at the box office but I hope it still does well, to show the studios the audience will support movies like this.

Ghost Zero by Dave Flora

Everyone should check out the link on the side for Ghost Zero. It is a great webcomic done by Dave Flora. I have been following him for a while with Ghost Zero from its previous incarnation as the Revenant to now. My first exposure to it was on DrunkDuck.com and also his postings on digitalwebbing.com. Dave does a fantastic job of doing a modern pulp story. His art, pacing and story are all superb. Like I said please click the link on the right and enjoy!