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LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 5, pt. 2!

Added 2024-09-13 13:30:02 +0000 UTC

[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, here's our first interior layout page from Hypervelocity #5:

Pretty sure those are nonsense Cyrillic characters in panel 2, but I'm also reasonably sure I would've used coherent foreign-language translations in the published issue.

A lot going on in these opening pages, clearly!

I had already created Empowered's Sistah Spooky by this point, so perhaps she could've faced off against this "Super-Spooky" gunship...

And we'll wrap up with page 5 from the issue:

Ehh, I'd safely assume we did not use the term "Tony-tard" in the published comic, as Absynthe's often quite alarming first-draft dialogue was understandably watered down in the final version of the story. Lordy loo!