Spotlight Ravage Pitch

Line art by me

Colors by Andrew Griffith


Pitch co-written by me and Josh van Reyk



At Botcon '09 this past summer, my good friend Josh van Reyk and I pitched a story idea to some of the good folks from IDW Publishing as a possible issue of their Transformers Spotlight series. Unfortunately they had to turn us down on "Spotlight Ravage." But it wasn't because the story sucked. It turns out they already had a similar book planned, only this one would focus on the Movie Universe version of Ravage and was being written by the one and only Simon Furman. And in a strange coincidental twist, not only did his book, the soon to be released Transformers: Tales of the Fallen #5, feature (a version of) Ravage too, but it also had the exact same "hook" that our story had. And by "hook" I mean something that makes the book (fairly) unique and interesting for comic book fans. I won't say what that hook is, but if you take into account the fact that this cover is an homage to Larry Hama's classic G.I. Joe #21, a comic famous for being the first to have the very same hook, then you can probably guess what that hook is.

Even though the pitch didn't get the green light, I'm still proud of it. And I owe a huge thanks to Josh van Reyk [link] for co-writing it and teaching me how the pros make a pitch. Another big thanks goes out to my other good friend Andrew Griffith [link] for working his coloring magic on this concept cover. And yet another ginormous thanks goes out to my other other good friend Shaun Knowler [link] for always supporting my scribblings. Thanks guys!