Blogging Warmageddon

Previously thought to have been lost, Raven's Town and all the art from the project has been located. These files have been sent to Jamal and the Raven's Town story will one day be told here at Warmageddon.com.

 

Raven's Town was written by Stephen Forbes with art by Gerry Fernandez  (layouts and character design by Shane Nitszche). It tells the story about how the bwang city of Raven's Town received its name.

TAGS : bwang, Gerry Fernandez, Raven's Town, Shane Nitszche, Stephen Forbes

Two weeks ago, we suffered a huge drive crash which swiped out a lot of the Warmageddon material. We are still trying to access the damage, but we know for sure that the art of 2 stories have been completely lost. Those stories are Battle Royale by Nando Pinto (which was running on the site) and Raven's Town by Gerry Fernandez.

 

Battle Royale is a story that has been sitting in the Warmageddon vault for almost 5 years.  It was the final story of the transition of Ulmragha from mild mannered and pretty orc to ... well, to Ulmragha the fighter that catches the eye of THF. That story is now being rolled into a future ongoing story that we will present at a later date and the 9 pages that are now on the site will disappear tomorrow.

 

Raven's Town is a story that has been through at least 4 different artists. It's not a story that's important to the Warmageddon mythos, so it's one of those filler stories that will we assign some time in the future.

 

by Jeffrey Stevenson and Seth Damoose

 

Brat-Halla is a concept that we wish that we'd come up with first. It's a humorous comic that follows the Norse gods when they were kids. You have young Thor with his brothers, Balder, Hod, Heimdal, and Loki. You have Frig and Odiin. There's a plethora of gods and goddess with predefined relationships and personality quirks that Stevenson uses to great effect.

 

Brat-Halla is a web comic that started at Kevin Smith's Movie Poop Shoot web site with colors by Warmageddon's very own, L Jamal Walton. You can get all these adventures online, but if you order from Bull Citu Comics, Jamal has 50 very special issues of Brat-Halla Volume 1 in which he is drawing 50 sketches. 

TAGS : Brat-Halla, Jeffrey Stevenson, Mik'L, review, Seth Damoose, Tiegre, Warmageddon

We've had a bit of a production blip at Warmageddon Central, so this week we're foregoing the next Mik'l update and will be giving you 2 doses of Ulmragha. Next week, we will return to the normal schedule of Ulmragha on Tuesday with Mik'l on Thursdays.

 

Diamond Previews

Every month, comic book shops all over the world receive a preview book from their major distributor. This book is called Previews and lists all the comics that will begin shipping in 2 months. Previews ships as 2 different books. One is a main Previews book with all the comic book publishers, but Marvel. The other is the Marvel Previews book containing all the upcoming comics from Marvel Comics. We're taking time to highlight the high fantasy and sword and sorcery comics in the latest issue of Previews.

 

So that you can located them easily in this month's Previews books, we will note the comic books by the Previews book (Main or Marvel), page number, title and volume or issue number.

 

Marvel is known for its superhero comics. Occasionally, the superhero books will have some high fantasy or sword and sorcery element, so this month you have

Page 12: Tales of the Dragon Guard: Into the Veil #2 (of 3)

Page 62: Thor: For Asgard #3 (of 6)

 

Every now then, we will highlight some quality pulp inspired comics. Those will be noted by HM.

 

Dark Horse

Turok is not high fantasy nor sword and sorcery, but it's pulp inspired and features native warriors battling dinosaurs in a world lost in time. This is a chance to get in on the ground floor of this new series written by comics veteran, Jim Shooter.

 

Page 44: Conan the Cimmerian #25

The Guild is a prequel to the popular web video series, The Guild, about a group of RPG players.

 

 

DC's Wildstorm imprint beings us 2 comics this month both based upon MMORPGs and a barbaric tale of Vikings.

Page 117: Free Realms Book Two TP

Page 119: Telara Chronicles #2

Page 127: Northlanders #33

 

Page 157: The Last Unicorn #5 (of 6)

This is the second printing of the Complete Edition as the original printing has sold out and it selling for greatest than retail in the secondary market. The Rocketeer is Dave Stevens's love letter to pulp inspired fiction.

 

Page 190: Orc Stain #8

 

Page 218: Amryl Entertainment - Cavewoman: A Night Out One Shot

Budd Root's Cavewoman is a voluptuous jungle girl who is trapped in the past along with the entire town of Marshville.  This one shot follow her antics with Klyde (her large gorilla friend) as they try to visit the theatre to watch King King.

 

Page 224: Archaia Entertainment LLC -  Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard HC

Page 252: Candlewick Press - The Odyssey GN

Greek myths are filled with action, adventure, and sorcery. The Odyssey is the story of Greek king Odysseus's trek home following the Trojan War.

 

Dynamite Entertainment

Billed as an "extension" to Burroughs's novel, The Princess of Mars, Dynamite is bringing the adventures of John Carter and Dejah Thoris to comics once again.

Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World Vol 1 #1.5

Page 266: Pat Lee's Widow Warriors #4

Page 288: GG Studio - Mediterranea #2

TAGS : Conan, Dejah Thoris, John Carter, Mouse Guard, Previews, Red Sonja, Ulmragha, Xenozoic Tales

Keeping It Together

The desire to keep things in a neat and orderly fashion occasionally leads to hilarious results. The story behind Keeping It Together is that Jamal had this rash that was being treated by a cortisone ointment. Unfortunately, the tube of cortisone and the tube of glue looks strikingly familiar. The color of the 2 fluids within the tubes were strikingly familiar. It wasn't until Jamal squirted the "ointment" into his hand and began to spread it unto the rash that he realized that there was something wrong with his "ointment". That realization came too late as he had already spread the rapidly curing glue to the rash. From that experience, Keeping It Together was born. Incidentally, this one of the first strips where Thomas's antics can be attributed to a mistake.

 

Groo: The Hogs of Horder

Groo is a creator owned series of mini series published by Dark Horse Comics, lettered by Stan Sakai, colored by Tom Luth, scripted by Mark Evanier, and drawn (and written) by Sergio Aragones. Groo has been published regularly since 1982 by a series of publishers and is a sword and sorcery parody. Groo is renown for his skill with the sword, lack of intelligence and his knack for causing accidents.

 

The overall series has used humor to touch on many different topics over the years. With the Hogs of Horder, Aragones and crew parody a lot of recent events from the war in Iraq, the economic collapse, government buyouts, and even the exodus of US manufacturing job. As you can see this series covers a lot of ground. Unfortunately, you can't cover so many sensitive topics with sucha  break neck pace (this is a collection of four issues) without the tale becoming preachy and overbearing. We at Warmageddon Central love a good Groo tale, this just wasn't a particularly good one.

TAGS : Dark Horse, glue, Groo, Mark Evanier, review, Sergio Aragones, Thomas

Gerald Lange provided the character designs for the mandrake, mandragora, yeti and sasquatch. We've seen the sasquatch once and the other will be showing up in future tales East of Warmageddon.

TAGS : Art of Warmageddon: Year One, Gerald Lange, sasquatch, yeti

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