Alright, here's what some of you have been waiting for. I have mentioned this project over the years and more specifically in my write-up regarding the aborted BMQ fanzine I was involved in back in the late '90s. This was intended to be a feature that was going to take up a quarter of each issue (we were thinking BIG!).
If you intend to truly read this I will tell you this up front that this story is 25 pages long, was the first part of a trilogy, and that I have no intention of doing any more work on it. It's an artifact of It's time and I share it here solely to entertain you guys. In the end I think I will share with you the script for issue 2 and the plot for issue 3 so you can see what was going to happen next. I think I can write better these days but I think this story (mostly) holds up. Regardless, I hope you get a kick out of this thing.
This was done around 25 years ago in the later stages of second edition Warhammer 40k. The space craft are all based on the Space Fleet era of models, since up until the release of Battlefleet Gothic a few years after I drew this, those were the codified versions of 41st millennium space craft. There was a grace and charm about the original designs that appeal to me still, and I am still pleased with the majority of these pages.
This artwork is unofficial and not endorsed by Games-Workshop. Furthermore this blog and this post generates no revenue for it's owner and is strictly used for, and as, a free entertainment resource in support of games by, but again not official or endorsed, by Games-Workshop.