Army of Darkness/Evil Dead Comics Discussion Thread!

Artist Scott Cohn (who worked on the latter half of Dynamite's second ongoing Army of Darkness series) has been posting bits of a new image featuring Ash and The League of Light. He also mentioned having to submit these and wait for approvals, so it seems like this is a piece for something officially licensed. Perhaps the League is returning for a new series?
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Oh my God, the League of Light arc. NOT in my top five, but hopefully something interesting will come of this.
 
Just picked up AOD Forever #13. Whilst I had hoped that this issue was a slightly more detailed glimpse of Ash's adventures in 2093 (which were summed up to about one page of flashback panels in the main series), it's not that. The story of this issue is that these are the "Ash vs massive Deadite hoard" battles only teased in the middle of issues #8, 9, and 10, each one taking place in one of the three different time periods we saw in the main storyline (2093, 1993, and 1300 AD).

There's not really too much to say on this issue. Each timeframe had a different artist, so that kept things interesting (none of them were bad, in my opinion). I got the Fleecs and Burnham covers, so I'm happy with that. If there really is anything negative to say, it's that this should have been issue #11 instead of getting tagged on after the main story is all said and done. Besides that, it really lives up to the "gore-tacular" we were promised in the issue's announcement. If mindless Deadite-killing is something you crave, then this is the issue for you.

8 out of 10.
 
A post from artist Trevor Denham (who did that cool black and white variant cover for Space Goat's Evil Dead 2: Revenge of Hitler one-shot). Apparently this image was part of a pitch to Space Goat for his own Evil Dead 2 comic that never came to fruition. I asked Mr. Denham if he had any more images from the rejected pitch and what the story was, though unfortunately he hasn't gotten back to me :(
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MCT28 said:
Just picked up AOD Forever #13. Whilst I had hoped that this issue was a slightly more detailed glimpse of Ash's adventures in 2093 (which were summed up to about one page of flashback panels in the main series), it's not that. The story of this issue is that these are the "Ash vs massive Deadite hoard" battles only teased in the middle of issues #8, 9, and 10, each one taking place in one of the three different time periods we saw in the main storyline (2093, 1993, and 1300 AD).

There's not really too much to say on this issue. Each timeframe had a different artist, so that kept things interesting (none of them were bad, in my opinion). I got the Fleecs and Burnham covers, so I'm happy with that. If there really is anything negative to say, it's that this should have been issue #11 instead of getting tagged on after the main story is all said and done. Besides that, it really lives up to the "gore-tacular" we were promised in the issue's announcement. If mindless Deadite-killing is something you crave, then this is the issue for you.

8 out of 10.
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Aw, I was hoping for something more engaging. Oh well!
 
Currently waiting to see what, if anything, Dynamite has in store for February solicits; there's nothing else coming from them for the license through the end of the year.
 
Jason Moore has limited edition Army of Darkness Forever #1 covers exclusive to his site:

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Nick Bradshaw (who has done art for Dynamite's AOD line since it's launch in 2004) did a detail-heavy Evil Dead 2 piece entitled "Welcome to my Fruit Cellar!". Not for anything official, just something for fun. The original black and white art already sold on his website for $1,150 USD (or $1,600 CAN). Colors by fellow AOD comic artist Jim Charalampidis.
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Nice! Nick's style has definitely evolved over the years.
 
Tony Fleecs did a Reddit AMA yesterday, and I decided to ask him a few questions about Army of Darkness Forever:

1) Were there any restrictions imposed from the higher-ups (Dynamite or MGM) that forced certain plot points to be changed from what you originally envisioned, or is the final product more or less what you wanted from the get-go?

1- Not TOO many restrictions. And MGM didn't edit the plot at all. When I started, I said, "I love Army of Darkness but I wish it was more gory and disgusting-- I would like to do, like, the Avatar comics... Jacen Burrows Army of Darkness" and they said MGM likes to keep the property at about a PG-13 (even though the movie was R). Luckily, Justin Greenwood and Pop Mhan are on the more cartoony side, style wise. So we got a way with a lot that I think a more realistic artist might not have. And I kept it PG13. Violence is ok. No boobs. 1 or 2 fucks.

2) That series started off as a celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Army of Darkness film... but with issue 12, it turned into a surprisingly nice tribute to the 20th anniversary of Dynamite's Army of Darkness comics with all those little cameos. Was this year-long double anniversary celebration intentional, or just a happy coincidence on your part?

2- I think part of celebrating the 30 years of AoD involves celebrating the comics too. There's one movie compared to what-- HUNDREDS of comics? So yeah-- when I started with the idea of: Can we reconcile these 2 endings-- make those fit together while telling a cool sequel story-- It quickly turned into a thing where we could make it ALL fit together, and do it organically. The movie, the TV show, the remakes, the comics... The only thing that I didn't worry about too much were the video games... because I don't play video games.

3) How exactly did you go about writing the three different time frames for the series? Did you write each era on it's own one at a time and then break it down for each issue, or did you juggle all three eras during the writing of each individual issue?

3- Juggle. I had a notes document where I sort of planned out what sort of changes each of the characters were gonna go through and I outline pretty tightly but beyond that, I just winged it. When a scene would end I'd know it was time to check in on another timeline, usually.

This isn't a question, but I also wanted to add that your covers for that series were seriously amazing, and I hope Dynamite keeps you aboard for whatever the next AOD book may be.

4- THANKS! I really switched it up on those covers. I've done AoD covers for years but these were the first ones that I did in my LOCAL MAN style and I even pushed them a little crazier than I usually do with Local Man. There's a weird freedom that comes from drawing a cover to a book that YOU wrote... but you don't OWN. Hard to put it into words.
 
MCT28 said:
Artist Scott Cohn (who worked on the latter half of Dynamite's second ongoing Army of Darkness series) has been posting bits of a new image featuring Ash and The League of Light. He also mentioned having to submit these and wait for approvals, so it seems like this is a piece for something officially licensed. Perhaps the League is returning for a new series?
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Cohn finally finished this piece. Turns out it was not for anything official, just him being nostalgic for his stint on AOD and to celebrate it's 15th anniversary.
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MCT28 said:
Cohn finally finished this piece. Turns out it was not for anything official, just him being nostalgic for his stint on AOD and to celebrate it's 15th anniversary.
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Sorry to be a downer but I think that's dreadful and not in a good way. As long as he enjoyed himself while he was drawing it though I suppose. What was he smoking? LOL
 
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Sorry to be a downer but I think that's dreadful and not in a good way. As long as he enjoyed himself while he was drawing it though I suppose. What was he smoking? LOL
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Agreed. Coloring is not his strength, especially on this pic... but his pencil/ink work is great!
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MCT28 said:
Nick Bradshaw (who has done art for Dynamite's AOD line since it's launch in 2004) did a detail-heavy Evil Dead 2 piece entitled "Welcome to my Fruit Cellar!". Not for anything official, just something for fun. The original black and white art already sold on his website for $1,150 USD (or $1,600 CAN). Colors by fellow AOD comic artist Jim Charalampidis.
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Will never not love me some Nick Bradshaw!

TF's answers are such a nice window into his process; it's all fascinating Greek to me.
 
The estate of comic artist Dave Simons is auctioning off some of his original artwork for the Inkwell Awards (which is an award ceremony for comic book artists). Among the collection is the entirety of Dave's original artwork for one of his last comics: 2008's ARMY OF DARKNESS: ASH'S CHRISTMAS HORROR one-shot, with the starting ebay bid at $4,200. Included in this collection is a scrapped pin-up or variant cover for the issue.
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Nice stuff, in both regards!
 
Almost eight years since it was announced, new information regarding Space Goat's cancelled EVIL DEAD 2: DOPPLEGANGER WARS series has finally come to light thanks to Spudd (AKA Army of Darkness & Evil Dead Comics on Facebook and Instagram). Spudd said the following "I reached out to Ian Edginton, writer of Revenge of Evil Ed who was also set to write Doppleganger Wars until it was cancelled. I asked him about it and he had this to say:"
Hi, sorry, I've been working. I've had a look for my Evil Dead files but I think they're on a defunct machine that I can't use anymore. From what I recall (and it's very sketchy!) the story didn't get much past the ideas stage before it folded. I think there were money issues or it turned out they'd didn't own all the rights they thought they did or something? The series was going to be about the original Ash vs a version grown from his possessed hand. The possessed Ash wasn't wholey evil and had to fight against the hand's power. There as also a strange creepy monastic order who worshiped the possessed hand - I think! I'm sorry I can remember much more, it was a while ago!
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So it seems like Space Goat was wanting to bring the real Ash back into the fold, but complications arose since MGM and Dynamite could have made the case that it was now the Army of Darkness version of the character. That, and Space Goat being the masters of managing their finances (especially at that moment in time) killed this project early on... but we know it at least got far enough for artwork, scripts, and being mentioned in in-house advertisements.
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Intriguing, they set this up during an earlier part of that arc!
 
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