The Quest - First Colour Promotional Image

© 2011 John Freeman and Smuzz (SMS)

Ace artist Smuzz (whose credits include 2000AD and Interzone) has just delivered this terrific promotional image for The Quest, which will feature in STRIP Magazine later this year.

The Quest, which is written by John Freeman, drawn by Smuzz, might look like sword and sorcery... but trust us, there's a twist.

There's a little more information on the strip's blog here.

There's still a lot of work to be done - 12 pages are drawn so far, which feature, so far, two fights, more weird creatures than we know what to do with - all of them wonderful - and one of the major baddies has taken its first victim.

There will be blood, the artist demands...

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