FAILED-PROJECT FRIDAY: EMPOWERED AND THE MASK CITY MELTDOWN (pt.1)

UPDATE: This is technically a repost of sorts, but given that the cover image above was, I think, my very first Patreon post way back in 2019, I'm hoping you'll bear with me.

So!

The image above would've been my variant cover 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, and neither did the next artist I pitched it to. After that, 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've decided 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.)

First, though, I'm going to rattle off multiple posts based on the first issue's cover, for which I have a further crapload of roughs, Work Stages, Guest Artist pencils(!) and more lurking in the defunct project's folder. This time around, behold my bud Ryan Kinnaird's final colors for the cover, accompanied by the initial roughs (and logo) I worked up for the variant cover.

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.