4 September 2009
Ever since the beginning, there have been cover drawn and designed that were just not used. This is a showcase of just a few of those items.
Alternate Cover DWP #17
Digital Webbing Presents #17 featured the first Warmageddon story, "Travesty." Shane Nitzsche provided these layouts of a version of the story events for a potential alternate cover. After some back and forward this drawing was taken to completion and even colored. Ultimately, it was not used because Kri'lang just never appeared to be as menacing as we all wished. The finished art was used as the back cover to the Art of Warmageddon Year One.
On the left, is a cover layouts for a future issues of Digital Webbing Presents featuring Warmageddon. At one point, we considered running Warmageddon as a regular features of Digital Webbing Presents. However, that plan was shelved when DWP went full color with issue #19 featuring Sherman Danger.
This cover is an homage to the "Song of Red Sonja" from Conan the Barbarian #24. Song of Red Sonja begins with Red Sonja dancing on the cover as Conan and crew cheer her on.
The idea here was that Kri'lang the Executioner would take the place of Conan and Tiegre would take the place of Red Sonja. the background would be filled with the Warmageddon Senior Council. Artist Edwin Rhemrev was contacted to put together this cover, however the effort was soon abandoned.
When we put together the Foundation collection for Warmageddon stories, we revisited this idea once again with artist, Jake Bilbao. The Bilbao version has Kiara filling in for Red Sonja and the entire composition is flipped. The foreground contains: Li'l Myke, Python manning, Izzy, Gunnar, Kri'lang, and Kiara. The background is littered with Tiegre, young Penny, Lefty, Marcus, Ulmragha, and THF.
Of course, the Bilbao version as well as the Foundation collection can be picked up at BullCityComics.com.
 After the move from Digital Webbing, there were plans to continue future Warmageddon stories in comic book sized format (rather than magazine format). The design on the right was one of the designs considered.
The design is very similar to the final design used for the magazine -sized Warmageddon Quarterly. However, the biggest differences are:
Pricing
The pricing information for this issue would have been in the bottom right corner right above the URL. The URL in the bottom corner was kept in the final version, but the price was moved to the top.
2 Cover Features
On this cover you see the art by Shane White on the Asar cover and then the lower art by Mike Hawthorne for the Zombie City story. The goal was original to have rotating features with Tiegre, Asar, Zombie City and Izzy & Gunnar rotating into the cover slots. Scheduling conflicts ultimately cancelled those plans.
That's all for this week's looking back.
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