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My way-too-tight layouts for "Unnamed Robot Comic" issue #2, pt.1!

Added 2021-09-20 13:01:04 +0000 UTC

Behold, my first five (in fact, six; see below) pages of layouts for issue #1 of 2004's Marvel mecha-team miniseries Livewires, titled here as "Unnamed Robot Comic" as I'm more than a tad dubious about identifying this series of posts publicly. Keep this to yourselves, won't you? (The joke of using the title "Unnamed Robot Comic", by the way, is that Livewires' mecha protagonists consider the term "robot" to be an offensive slur.)

UPDATE: Interestingly enough, on closer perusal I've noticed that the first layout page above is the version that actually made it into the published comic, featuring the first appearance of the Livewires' creator; the second page above, also flagged as "page 1," was an earlier draft with a different opening scene with "Stem Cell" that wound up being replaced.

The final art on the series was done by my old bud Rick Mays, but as you can see I cranked out insanely tight, fully dialogued, Sharpie-and-pencils layout pages for the series ahead of time; not only was this approach a faaaar from cost-effective use of my worktime, but in retrospect I feel that these layouts constricted Rick from drawing the beautiful faces and figure work he produced for other books. (Oh, well.)

Anyhoo, stand by for more Unnamed Robot Comic layouts shortly, okay?

NEXT TIME ON THIS HERE PATREON: The new "M/W/F+" posting schedule has kicked in with a non-fixed selection of posts, so who knows what the heck I might post next? (Alas, you have to be subscribed to the $5+ Patron tiers to get the full M/W/F treatment every week of the month.)