LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 2, pt. 3! (Patreon)

[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 the last page I showed you from issue #2:

Earlier in the issue, we saw the footage upon which SHIELD based their assessment of the situation; now, we'll see what really happened:

That's one big sniper rifle!

Yyyyyyyyeah, my concept for depicting the mysterious enemy in this sequence was a bold but arguably misguided one.

A second draft of this page featured a patched version of the last panel:

Not sure that was a terribly critical detail, but there you go.

High-speed mecha mayhem!

Anyhoo, that's the third quarter of Hypervelocity issue #2's layouts, folks! (Ah, yes, for the bygone days when standard Marvel issues were 22 pages long, as opposed to today's 20pp.) In another few weeks, we'll wrap up this explanatory flashback with the issue's concluding pages, 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?