Volume One of Weird Luck is complete!
Every time we reach the end of a volume, we'll be bringing you a series of bonus short stories drawn by an assortment of fantastic guest artists. These stories will be prequels to the main Weird Luck storyline, providing more background and giving you glimpses into regions of the broader Weird Luck multiverse beyond the city of Tal Sharnis.
This first series of prequel stories, in between Volumes One and Two, is titled The Corvus Drive Papers. With the exception of the first one, most of the stories in The Corvus Drive Papers take place about 13–14 years before the main Weird Luck storyline, and deal with the adventures of rogue scholar/sorceress Madeline de Verninac as she pursues her obsessive quest to obtain all existing knowledge about the infamous Corvus Drive.
This week's delightful piece of guest art is by Emmy-nominated animation director Guy Moore. The shows Guy has worked on in his 30+ years in the animation field include Beavis & Butt-Head, Daria, The Venture Bros., Codename: Kids Next Door, Kindergarten: The Musical, and Muppet Babies (the show that got him his three Emmy nominations). Check out samples of his work here!
Guy is also a longtime friend and gaming buddy of Nicky and Andrew's, from way back when they were teens. Nicky and Andrew managed to catch him in a rare stretch of free time when the first season of Kindergarten: The Musical had just wrapped, and somehow managed to persuade him to illustrate a 2-page installment of The Corvus Drive Papers.
Somewhere in the middle of working on the art for that 2-page story (which you'll be seeing in a few months), Guy got inspired to bang out the "Intermission" drawing you see above, to serve as a transitional page between the end of Volume One and the beginning of The Corvus Drive Papers. Presumably these are the Muppet Baby versions of Charles and Arok.
Our first prequel story, "Ethan Rex and the Ghostly Abbot," begins next week!
Meanwhile, all 11 chapters of Volume Two have already been written, and Mike will be getting a nice big head start on drawing them while you enjoy The Corvus Drive Papers.
Volume Two will be titled The Long Tuesday, and will answer some of the questions that Volume One left us with––questions like: Will Agent Sojac track down the Corvus Drive before someone activates it? Who hired Angelica to steal it? Who is Max? Who is Beth? How did the city of Tal Sharnis become an interdimensional disaster zone? And why does Charles have the head of a penguin?
