Legend of Bill’s very own color wizard Don Kuehn & LoB’s Saturday Barwench Tales cartoonist Jason Williams sent me a lil’ surprise earlier this week, and boy did MY eyes pop out of my head when I got it in my Inbox. Don had a fun idea of doing a Star Wars-like poster (think of the classic Hildebrandt poster for the first Star Wars in ’77) featuring the LoB cast, and asked Jason to draw it. Then Don colored it. What a team! LOOKIT this awesome work by LoB’s own – I’m so proud I sent a few barwenches and a crate of the Wet Gill Tavern’s finest homemade ale (is that a GOOD thing?) to both their houses. THANK YOU, GUYS!!!
I’m thinking this needs to be made into a print and added into the LoB store, with special ones signed by me, Don and Jason!
*Click the image for a much larger view!
Fantastic!!! This would be a great addition to the LOB store.. I’d buy one for sure.. Well done Jason and Don!!
We’ll work on that Mike.
Where’s the extension cord for the sword?
WANT WANT WANT WANT WANT
Oh….My…….BADNESS!
Gentlemen, that is….wow i don;t even have words! Amazing just doesn’t seem to even encompass it, It’s breathtaking, it’s inspiring, it’s….Just wow!
Well done.
Bill has THE POWER!!!!
So, he’s gonna get a -2 sword, cursed backbiter at some point?
Awesome! My only little, teeny, tiny complaint is that I like to save these pics as backgrounds for my netbook. Unfortunately these portrait-oriented pieces of art don’t get due justice on my landscape-oriented screen.
hehe Open them in a program like Paint Shop Pro and change the image’s aspect ratio to match your screen. It will look like a company of dwarves. (Or worse.)
Turn your head 90 degrees?
Barbie Bill and his sword, Stormchaser.
Or with his luck, Lightningrod.
I like that name: Lightingrod. I can see BB going into battle and getting fried as he gets the upper hand. BBBZZZZTTTTTTTT!! YEEEOOOWWWWWW!
Foes laughing at him as he sits dazed on the ground in burned clothes and his frizzed out hair smokes.
Yes, just like Thor and Mjolnir in the movie THOR, only with completely opposite results when the pyrotechnics stop.
The expressions are interesting. Frank seems to be thinking “OK, Big Buddy, what’s next.” Gypsie looks rather bored, but Craven is alarmed or even frightened. Gina looks disgusted but whether at Bill’s showing off or at Vasheeva’s pawing. And, of course, everyone knows what (or rather WHO) is on Vasheeva’s mind. Love it!
And I like Johanan’s name for Bill’s mighty sword, Lighningrod!
Anyone ever comment that the horns on Barbarious Barian’s head are perfect for “catching” a sword, so that it knocks him good and has a good chance of taking his helmet off and damaging his neck? It’s the opposite effect of most military helmets over the years that were designed to deflect blows, like the Pickelfaube the Germans used from the 1800s to WWI where a sword blow down at the noggin would be deflected to one side or the other by the “pickel” or spike. Many helmets had crests running from front to back that did the same job, from Medieval times to WWII France, who was still using WWI uniforms. Hehe, maybe Bill could have “rotatable horns” that he turns down just before a battle to deflect the blows away…
Anybody notice that the problem is ten times worse with Warrix’s helmet?
I wouldn’t worry too much about it, I doubt there are that many people that would willingly get close enough to Warrix with a sword in hand…