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Back in the day, when I was pitching for the He-Man license, I was also pitching for serveral other licenses.
One of them was Army of Darkness.

Robert Kirkman wrote the plot pitch,
Tony Moore, Cory Walker and Matt Roberts drafted up some pitch art,
and I did the leg work.

Trouble is, the people we thought were the license holder, because they represented themselves as the license holder, WEREN'T the license holder and abused our inquires to get free art out of us for an Evil Dead DVD ad.
We never even got the promised comps on those DVDs.
*sigh*

Anyway, this piece had been sitting around for years.
And once Dynamic Forces found out about the art, they wanted to use it on a cover.
Not sure which issue of the Army of Darkness series this was used on, but, it's one of them.

Tony Moore drew it up, I colored it, and there ya go.
:D

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:iconnaru7o0o:
WOOOW Brutallyty!!

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I'm going to become a Hokage one day and until then I can't lose to anyone.
ThAt'S mY wAy Of ThE nInJa !!! :katana: :ninjabattle:

Sorry for the bad english
:iconoicemano:
Hail to the King baby!

(sorry, someone had to say it!)

Great work.

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Week Daze...
:iconchrismcj:
Great work, wish the proposed stuff with Kirkman and Co. would have come to fruition because I know it woulda' kicked all sorts of ass.

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My portfolio: [link]
:iconwheels9696:
wow...this is cool. I dig the blood on the chainsaw...cool effect.

this project could have kicked all sorts of booty.
:icongavinslayer:
Love the way the blood is rendered. It adds to the pic without taking away from the linework. The brain chunks are nice, too :chainsaw: It sounds like you've been screwed over a lot in the industry!

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:iconvalstaples:
A lot of people get screwed, unfortunately.
I guess my encounters are better documented than most.

Heck, there was one artist going around talking about how I screwed him when I couldn't pay for a while because CrossGen didn't pay me.
Thing is, he ghosted for someone who was working for me, so I had no idea the guy had actually worked on MVCreations stuff. :D

He's never brought it up to me at cons.
And I won't say his name, because I understood his frustration so I don't blame him for being upset at the time (even though I never directly hired him).
I just hope he's not doing that any more since all the artists have since been paid.
:iconrobtlsnyder:
Wow I didn't know you colored that. Great job.
:iconthawk:
That really sucks. I've heard stories of things like this happening and it just saddens me.

But as for the artwork, amazingly beautiful!!!

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I really got to stop procastinating. Eh, I'll do it tomorrow. :sleep:
:iconcomicbookinker1971:
This was used as a Variant Cover for Army of Darkness "Ash vs The Monsters" issue 8 here is the [link] if you scroll down and look at the 5th set of covers just under the title "Ash vs. Monsters" you will see it is the second cover in from the left.

Man, I have no life if I can look this info up :(...actually I do have a life I am just waiting on "Sky Pirates of Valendor" Issue 3 pages to start arriving in the mail so I can get to work inking them :)

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Michael W. Kellar
FREELANCE INKER FOR HIRE
Check out "Red Handed Studios" at [link]
Check out "Sky Pirates of Valendor" at [link]

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