FAILED-PROJECT THURSDAY(?): EMPOWERED AND THE MASK CITY MELTDOWN, pt.2: Cover roughs aplenty! (Patreon)

The images above were my various cover roughs for issue #1 of an abortive two-part Guest Artist miniseries titled Empowered and the Mask City Meltdown. Note that our previous post in this series featured toughs for the variant cover I would've drawn myself, whereas these roughs would've been drawn by the actual Guest Artist.

I initially wrote Mask City Meltdown 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.

The various roughs are fairly straightforward, though I should probably clarify a tweak made to rough #3:

Yeahp, had to truncate the head of the "MEGASCALE BLDG KAIJU" to keep it below the space that the logo would've taken up.

I would ask "Which one's your favorite?" to get a li'l feedback going, though that might be a tad premature as you don't yet know what the hell the story's about, and hence might have difficulty interpreting the rather vague drawings. 

On that note, 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: Our regularly scheduled Failed-Project Friday post tomorrow will feature either A) the complete work stages on my variant cover or B) some of the incomplete cover and interior art by the miniseries' second Guest Artist. Woo hoo!