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My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #3, pt.3!
🕑 Added 2021-12-20 14:01:03 +0000 UTC(UPDATE: Here's a link to our previous installment, in case you'd forgotten what the heck was going on in the series.)
Behold, the next set of my layouts for issue #3 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of posts publicly. Keep this to yourselves, won't you? (The joke of using the title "Unnamed Robot Comic", by the way, is that Livewires' mecha protagonists consider the term "robot" to be an offensive slur.)
The final art on the series was done by my old bud Rick Mays (and the fine inker Jason Martin and the coloring studio Guru eFX, lest I forget) , but as you can see I cranked out insanely tight, fully dialogued, Sharpie-and-pencils layout pages for the series ahead of time; not only was this approach a faaaar from cost-effective use of my worktime, but in retrospect I feel that these layouts constricted Rick from drawing the beautiful faces and figure work he produced for other books. (Oh, well.)
A few words on one of the pages:
I quite like that shot of Social Butterfly in panel 4, gotta say; and I was rather impressed that I was able to get away with panel 5's none-too-subtle hint that the Livewires miiiight just have active sex lives. (At least, I don't think that line of dialogue was cut from the final, published comic, which I haven't read in a very long time.)
Anyhoo, stand by for more Unnamed Robot Comic layouts within another week or two, okay?
NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: At the moment I'm not quite sure what's going up when, thanks to the semi-randomized "M/W/F+" posting schedule I'm using nowadays.
Comments
Adam Warren
Yeahp, that was the idea.
Burninator
Eh, I've spent enough time around people in the deep black ultratech space that I'm not remotely surprised that somebody would have thought adding a sex drive was a good idea.
Strypgia
Line's in there, and that's what I always thought it implied. Mostly filed the 'why would they even be built with sex drives?' under 'must be a heavily root-level built in thing of human-emulating brains.'
Burninator
I went and pulled my copy off the shelf to check, and that line is indeed in the published copy.
