LAYOUTS FROM AN OLD SF-ADJACENT PROJECT: Chapter 3, pt. 1! (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, onward to Hypervelocity issue #3's cover art by Brian Denham, with colors by Guru eFX:

And here's my rough for said cover:

And a variant rough, which was kinda striking but featured too little imagery of Iron Man  himself:

 And on to our first interior page layout:

Why, I'd entirely forgotten that bot about digitized Tony always having the taste of blood in his (nonexistent) mouth. Lordy loo!

Iron Man behind the wheel!

In retrospect, this Hypervelocity issue was definitely waaaaaaaay too talky, albeit in a narrative caption form of talkiness.

A "dark web" reference circa 2005; huh.

Next up, an amusing page to close out this post on:

Alas, when I resume posting from Iron Man: Hypervelocity within a few weeks, you will soon experience an even more severe dose of "over-narration." (Oh, well.)

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: Finished that challenging and difficult Marvel script on Monday; 'twas a mere 70 pages long, BTW, which amazingly is not that long for a 30-page comic taking place in 6-8 different timeframes and settings, often simultaneously. Am now recopying my page roughs as partial-color thumbnails while attempting to throw together DiD content for a Distressed Damsels $5-tier post. Yay?