LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 4, pt. 1!

[Here's a link to our previous installment in this series.]

So, yeahp, 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.

Anyhoo, onward to Hypervelocity issue #4. First off, my cover rough:

And next, a series of color variations from the fine lads at Guru eFX on Brian Denham's cover artwork; I leave it to the Patron to spot the differences!

I think the last one might've been the one that saw publication, but have neither the time nor the interest to check. Onward to my interior layouts:

That previous jpeg was flagged as "OLD"; here's an updated version, I guess...?

 Ah, right. The "OLD" version was probably scanned with an inferior scanner, as opposed to my beloved Epson Perfection models (4490 and 550) that are unrivaled at grayscale scanning.

Cyberdrugs ahoy!

"Mekstacy 4.7" is likely a reference to Netscape Communicator 4.7, which was my browser of choice for a very long time (IIRC).

Absynthe returns, not surprisingly!

Wellp, this is a fine point to pause serialization, as we move on to the kickoff of issue #4's action in another two weeks or so. (In fact, the rest of the miniseries arguably makes up one long action scene, in a manner not unlike Empowered vol. 11's book-long ordeal of violence.)

And now, back to work on page roughs on a new introductory story for fantasy project The Chaste and the Chained, folks! (6pp in, and progress is lookin' good!)

 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?