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

...and now p.7, showing SHIELD's intel on the incident:

Amusingly enough, the image above is the second draft of this layout page. Here's the original, with a different Tony Stark pose in panel 2:

Yyyyyeah, that original Tony pose struck me as kinda goofy, so I replaced it. 

On to p.8, as SHIELD officer Major Tom Aramaki continues a briefing (to Nick Fury, though I'm not sure if that's been clarified yet) summarizing the ongoing incident:

Scramjet missiles ahoy!

Stand by for Shocking Plot Twist, folks:

Dunh dunh dunnnnnnh!

Okay, so maaaaybe the Napoleon Dynamite reference was a bad call on 2005 Me's part. (Well, 2004 Me, come to think of it, as I was writing this while Livewires was still coming out.)

Anyhoo, that's the first half 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.) Our next update in a few weeks will continue serialization of issue #2 as what really happened will be clarified in full. (Well, mostly.)

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?