Not sure how it ended up in the toy forum! It was supposed to be in the artwork forum. I'll see if I can get it moved.

I am actively working on this. While I am drawing the last few pages of Crimebusters #4, I have commissioned a couple different artists to do interpretations of scenes from this story. I'm hopeful one of them will pan out and I can hire them to do the whole story, but we'll see.

In the meantime, I'm trying to decide what to call the series. While the Bronze Age variant covers like the one above will have a Vhess logo on them, I think I may want to officially call the series something else. For marketing reasons, it will be easier if the name of the comic is something more evocative rather than a character name where I have to build the brand recognition from scratch. But there's also a story reason, as eventually I'm going to want to tell stories with some of the supporting characters who are introduced as the series goes along. There's a broader story framework that everything fits in, and I can see where I'm going to want to do issues here and there focusing on what we might call in D&D terms other party members.

So I'm trying to figure out what to call the series. I could stick with Vhess, or something else specific to her character. I would call the series Paladin if it weren't trademarked by Marvel. I may call it The Winter Paladin, which is one of Vhess's sobriquets in the story.

Or I am considering calling the series either Oath or Quest. I've been toying with the basic idea for this storyline for going on 25 years now, and in my head I always called the series Oath. I do want to lean into the RPG angle as well, because it's fun, and I think Quest might work better for that. I want a title that evokes epic fantasy and RPG fun, and I think Quest might do that better than Oath.

Still figuring it out, so it may ben none of these. If you guys have any thoughts or reactions to these, let me know!

A couple changes on this - while Vhess is still the main character, I've renamed the series Quest to make it a little more recognizably about the party and the campaign. I changed the title of the thread to match.

The throwback Bronze Age variant covers will still have the Vhess logo though.

I also shuffled the story order around just a little. I decided to take the story I was originally planning to have for issues #1-2 and movie it to #2-3, and shifted the story I originally planned for #3 and moved it to #1. The story in #2-3 has more of a single character focus on Vhess, while the story that is now in #1 gets more of the rest of the part in, and acts as a better setup for the main quest itself that everyone is on.

Having said all that, the big news is that I have an artist under contract for this who is currently working on the thumbanils for the whole first issue. I also have character designs for the entire party now, not just Vhess, so I will be sharing stuff with everyone here soon.

Very exciting! I was excited when you mentioned it on the stream, but seeing the art has sold me. Absolutely my kind of comic

Here's the first three pages from artist Marcos Lima - no coloring or text yet, but you can get the idea.

A band of adventurers is making camp in the Borderlands when they are attacked by gnolls! It looks grim, until the paladin Vhess rides in from nowhere to turn the tide:

Since I changed up the order of the stories, the throwback cover I shared before is now going to go with issue #2 rather than issue #1.

As a result, I've done a new throwback Bronza Age cover for issue #1. It just seemed appropriate to do an homage to Conan #1. Here's a look: