The Redeemers #0, page 2
May 2009
Pencil, sketch pens, tablet PC, Adobe Photoshop CS3

NOTE: These pages are shown without captions or SFX in the interests of protecting the story from leaking before the book is released.
The Redeemers is a story written by Eric Rampson and is set to be printed by Ronin Studios. The story follows an up-and-coming Chicago rock band, whose growing fan base is not only due to how much they can rock, but because of how amazing their live show is! The special effects, the storytelling, the costumes! Or so it seems. The Redeemers actually all have REAL supernatural powers and are regularly challenged at their shows by demonic forces!
Here's where we first see the Redeemers really go to work. Gabe has angelic powers, and does a neat little trick with his guitar that you'll see on the next page ;) Dex is a mage, and can channel his magic through his drumsticks like magic wands. As for Neil, he's actually a bear-like werebeast! This page, while cool, kind of doubles as a shout out to a lot of my friends, who I threw cameos of either them, or their OC's in. The only demon who I was given an explicit description of was the bulldog-faced leader, the rest of them were not described. Heck, there wasn't even a specific amount of them! So making up the team of demons, we have Psyguy (of fireball20xl.com, panel four on the left), Bibly's succubus, Avitu (moniras.com, panel four second from the left), Ame (tlwelker.com, panel four second from the right), Cailen Crow's Ellipses (cailencrow.deviantart.com, panel four on the right), and The Wise Mankey (panel six). Also shown in the crowd are Meta (meta.fireball20xl.com, panel five to the left of Neil), Megz (guardianheartcreations.com, panel five to the right of Neil), and Maddy (an actual friend and one of my OC's, panel six on the right).

The Redeemers © Eric Rampson
Artwork © WTAW Productions