Chris Whetzel was contacted by Village Voice Media to illustrate a universal cover feature to be used in several of their papers: Seattle Weekly, LA Weekly, SF Weekly, Riverfront Times, Miami New Times, and New Times Broward.

The subject was about a band of lawyers blackmailing those who illegally download movies; the sample cited often is Person-X downloads a movie he/she may not be proud of watching (something adult-oriented), and these lawyers track them down and mail them a letter saying "Pay us X-dollars or we will take you to court and make fetish public knowledge."

”In the sketch phase, I tried to hit all the various angles of the story to give the art directors lots of options,” says Chris.

Below are spot images, used almost exactly as Chris had initially pictured them in layouts while sketching.

The gun changed quite a bit from sketch to final while Chris was working and realized it should be a flintlock in order to complete the theme in all the images.