Interesting to read in the narration the "fallout" of Wolverine's encounter with the Hulk...
There has been a lot of canonical "creep" in the power/abilities of both protagonists since Hulk 181(?) was published, but (for me at least) it's hard to see how Wolverine could have been expected to win - at least within the constraints of the comics code!
Although, if memory serves, there was a What If (Wolverine killed the Hulk) published a few year later, so what do I know!!
I'd buy a figurine of whatever Wolverine is fighting in that third panel. Great and fun design for a spur of the moment.
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Most of my designs for ALPHA FLIGHT happened “on the spot”. The Great Beasts for instance, were designed without any preliminary doodles. The first time I knew what they looked like was when i drew them, on the page, for their debuts.
Absolutely *loving* today's page! So glad to see Sasquatch pop up as part of Wolverine's training... and that monster(?) in the third panel looks really cool. Gotta figure there were a whole bunch of missions in Canada that Logan took on long before he was approached by Professor X.
Speaking of the Great Beasts, I just made the mistake of googling them (I know, I know!).
Man, what a mess! I see even Tundra was brought back, to be defeated second time. (By melting! Not a really clear knowledge of what tundra is on display there!)
... Most of my designs for ALPHA FLIGHT happened “on the spot” ... The first time I knew what they looked like was when i drew them, on the page, for their debuts.
JB: "Most of my designs for ALPHA FLIGHT happened “on the spot”. The Great Beasts for instance, were designed without any preliminary doodles. The first time I knew what they looked like was when i drew them, on the page, for their debuts."
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Are you more or less spontaneous today than you were back then? Do you ponder an Elsewhen page for long or just let the pencil dictate layout and content?
Love seeing how much comes from pure 'on the spot' inspiration vs careful planning. Some other comic writers/artists do blogs as well (or whatever you'd call other forms) and there is a variety it seems of those who plan it out carefully and those who go in charging and everything inbetween. Kind of cool. I work in programming and am an oddity with doing it all on the spot - make it up as I go along. Drives others nuts but in my 20's it let me get work done so much faster than anyone else and some of that code is still in use today (heaven help us). Now as I slow down in my 50's I find I'm slower but still doing a lot of the 'flying by the seat of my pants' stuff. Sadly unappreciated now, as everyone wants the latest and coolest programming methods so when I say 'yeah, that can be done in a week' I get 'how' as a question and I shrug 'experience, I know how long things take'.
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