In
case you haven't been paying attention, the trade paperback of Knight
Watchman: Graveyard Shift is currently available at Amazon.com
for a measly $8.09 (plus shipping). This book collects the four issue
mini-series originally published by Image Comics, written by myself
and Chris Ecker and featuring the fabulous art of Ben Torres.
Ben's
career as a designer began at the Hasbro Toy Group, working on Star
Wars, GI Joe, Batman, Starting Line Up, Pokemon, Aliens, Predator,
Monsters Inc, Planet of the Apes and others. He also served as
creative consultant on various television series such as GI Joe,
Vortech and Transformers and contributed concept designs and story
content for movies such as Star Wars, Men In Black and Jurassic Park.
As
far as I know, Ben's comic book career started right here at Big
Bang Comics. Actually, it began with the pre-Big Bang story
Brother Hood, the back-up feature in 1993's Berzerker
#4 which evolved into Graveyard Shift.
The
first two issues of Graveyard Shift were published by Caliber
Press, but the series was interrupted by our movie over to Image
Comics. Those first two issues were reissued by Image with new covers
and back-up stories. The series concluded with issues 3 and 4 which
contained all new material.
I
thought I'd use this blog post to share some of Ben's Knight Watchman
pieces that are not reprinted in the Graveyard Shift trade
paperback. These include the original two covers to the Caliber Press
issues, a presentation piece and a drawing that he gave to me.
Also
presented here today are Ben's two original KW sample pages, which
have never appeared anywhere except for one figure used in an ad. You
will notice that KW's uniform features the second (unused) version of
the chest logo, the black shield with the eyeball on it. It's also
either the grown-up Galahad in the Watchman suit, or more likely just
drawn before we decided that the older Reid Randall would be more
massive than his junior partner.
Either
way, once we saw Ben's take on the character we knew that we had to
do the mini-series.
Knight
Watchman: Graveyard Shift is available at Amazon.com at:
http://www.amazon.com/Knight-Watchman-Graveyard-Chris-Ecker/dp/1481885340/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370392185&sr=8-1&keywords=knight+watchman+graveyard+shift
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