He then relocated to Desert Hot Springs, California, where he collaborated with A. David Lewis on the independent comic book "Mortal Coils", and with Michael Colbert on the Digital Webbing Presents series "Crazy Mary", for which he continues to do covers. "Crazy Mary" was noticed by IDW Publishing, which offered him the job of illustrating a "" miniseries. He subsequently illustrated a story in Boom! Studios' "Zombie Tales". When Peter David moved his series, "Fallen Angel" to IDW, Woodward was chosen as the regular artist.