Her Wings: Variant Cover Editions · 5:06am Dec 4th, 2021
Context: a variant cover is an alternative cover American comic book publishers, mainly the big two and IDW, make for a single issue of a comic series. Originally a promotional gimmick it's since turned into an arbitrary fact of the industry, sometimes as an incentive for certain stores (shop at Forbidden Planet to get THIS cover by big name artists. Shop at Hot Topic to get THAT cover by other big name artist). They don't have much point beyond looking pretty, the industry's done far more confusing/outright monstrous things over the years and what the hell, it puts money in those artist's pockets and we get a cool poster/lock screen out of it.
Point is I put certain lines from Her Wings into https://app.wombo.art/ and this is what came out. They have a very fitting Dave McKean quality to them. If he, like. Sneezed. Everywhere.
This is my favourite. It has that feeling I wanted for the story, two people who share space (and maybe some intense feelings but also can't do anything about it without it going wrong.) (But would it be so bad if they did and it did?) Plus what I'm interpreting as the Death portion of their face inadvertently winds up with a chill smile! Very in character.
"I'LL BE IN YOUR DREAMS TONIGHT! PLEASANT SCREAMS!"
This one put me in mind of a tall Dash looking down on/watching out for a smaller, peppier Death, which an interesting total inversion of their dynamic.
This was for "Are you afraid of me now, little pony?"
Happy DeathDash/Sad DeathDash
Death was smiling but quiet now. She was like that, flowing from eruption to the stoic goth bit. Dash envied that level of control.
Second favourite. Like someone (thinking Dash) holing something, (Death's shirt?) when the implication is she has a draw full of Death's wing feathers somewhere.
Here's what it did when I tried "Spider-Pony".
I didn't even specify for a New Yorkish backdrop! It just added it! Cower before the might of machine learning!