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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 1, pt. 2!
🕑 Added 2024-01-08 14:00:07 +0000 UTC[Here's a link to our first installment in this series.]
So, yeahp, the time has come at last: I'm serializing my insanely tight layout pages for the 2005 Marvel miniseries Iron Man: Hypervelocity, the first issue of which I wrote and laid out long before an artist had been chosen; of course, the great Brian Denham wound up tackling the art for the project, but I had already rolled with these time-consuming roughs out of, I dunno, sheer perfectionism and unhinged micro-managing.
Either that, or these layouts represented the sum total of artwork I actually wanted to produce for this project. As I've noted here before, cranking out finished artwork is the bane of my g-d existence as an artist; I like (or even occasionally love) drawing loose, relatively spontaneous comic pages like this, but bog down toute suite upon having to painstakingly render my usual tight and precise completed artwork.
Even though we're coming up on the 20th anniversary of Hypervelocity's creation, I am loath to publicly acknowledge to non-Patrons that I'm serializing these layouts here, hence the "Old SF-Adjacent Project" monicker; if any Patrons have a better idea for an ambiguous nickname for this recurring feature, feel free to sing out in the comments.
Anyhoo, here's the page we left on last time, three weeks or so ago (oops):
And the first page of this set:
High contrast art ahoy! I used a combo of pencils and Sharpies for these layouts, BTW.
This layout format was, of course, a continuation of the approach I used on the previous Livewires miniseries the year before.
I based that off a fairly mundane Pershing ballistic missile launcher, IIRC.
Lotta "cape" talk from our as-yet-unnamed Leader Guy as we'll see.
This is a riff on something that's long bugged me about flying superhumans: Namely, that cape flight is rarely based on conventional, wing-based aerodynamics, so their flight patterns could very well look nothing like those of mere aircraft.
Of course, this scene's violent, gee-force-intensive jinking provides another hint that there might not be any "spam" in that thrust-vectoring "can," if you follow me.
Note that this scene predates the first Iron Man movie by three years; alas, poor, ill-fated Hypervelocity had the misfortune to debut before IM's cinematic renaissance, and was a fairly grisly failure in the ol' sales department. (Didn't sell quite as badly as Livewires, though.)
Anyhoo, expect to see another update in this feature within two weeks or so, okay?
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: No idea, TBH, but something should be coming up in the next M/W/F slot. Let's find out together, shall we?
UPDATE: Ehh, next up will very likely if not certainly be something in the Distressed Damsels vein for the $5+ tiers, methinks.
Comments
Adam Warren
Nice!
Dean Reilly
I always described this comic as "The Fugitive, but with Tony Stark as both the accused killer and the victim".
Mark Fentz
For what it's worth, Livewires was one of my favorite comics.
