BARNEY

STORMING HEAVEN 

BY FRAZER IRVING

This was done real fast becaue of the ridiculous deadlines I was under. It's basically a reworking of the last panel of the previous episode but less gory. I wanted a cover with bad trips on it and so I tried to make him make it his own by beckoning to the reader "I wanttt yourrr sssoulll" kinda incentive. See the "cosmic carpet" note that I swiftly ignored...
This is what I did in the real world. This is the drawn line art which was scanned in as the basis of the image. You'll see it's pretty sparse...
This is once the photoshop magic has kicked in. all the remaining elements have been fleshed out and the image hums. I designed this to be as retina-searing as the internal pages, but tharg disagreed and said that if I was to put that on the shelves then all the poor earthlets would be temporarily blinded by it and therefore miss out on that weeks thrillpower. And we can't have that now.
This is the solution. Darker b/g to bring out Trippy more. We also ditched the two folks at the back cos they just weren't happening, maaan...like, dude, they were Totally bugged out by the creepy redhead dude with all that like bad kaarma....farout......