Can anybody see this?

[Fake Pat]

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/020108millarmcnivenwolvie1.html

Wizard's got new McNiven Wolverine art up, but for some reason the page won't load for me?

WTF WIZARD!

[ZombieSpeedball]

Yep:


WOLVERINE: Rough Cut
Steve McNiven shows off his ‘Wolverine’ sketchbook in anticipation of his and Mark Millar’s upcoming follow-up to ‘Civil War.’

By Kiel Phegley
Posted Feb. 1, 2008



For Mark Millar and Steve McNiven, things just get sweeter the second time around. A year after their Civil War conquered the comic world, the writer and artist reteam for a post-apocalyptic action epic in the pages of Wolverine starting with July’s issue #66. And while the pair can’t wait to launch a story that doesn’t juggle the demands of every Marvel character, following up the biggest- selling comic in a decade has set their standard for success pretty high.

“If I had any sense, this would have been called Civil War 2,” jokes Millar, whose story tangentally ties into his Fantastic Four run. “Wolverine, as the story begins, hasn’t popped his claws or raised his hand in violence in 50 years. The Marvel Universe as we understand it is gone. Some terrible incident has happened, and America is absolutely f---ed.”

In order to serve Millar’s vision, McNiven met with his writer last November at the Dublin City Comic Con—a meeting which saw the artist redrawing several pages of the project to better capture the right mix of mutant menace and dystopian desolation. “We got talking and realized that the feel of those pages wasn’t quite what we wanted to get across, so I ended up coming back and redoing them,” recalls McNiven.

The result is a mix of rough sketches, layouts and completed pages that reveal the bones of a story that will take Wolverine from the brink of death to the end of days and beyond, but as McNiven explains, “It’s not all depressing and moody and him staring off into the sunset.”

THE MUTANT IN BLACK
While his inspiration for the aging mutant started with a Western feel, it ended with a country one. “I was looking to Clint Eastwood and Johnny Cash—that sort of grizzled face,” he says. “I was doing Clint Eastwood, but Johnny Cash just started to slip in there.”

DEATH WISH
When crafting this flashback where a bloodied younger Wolverine submits to a cold cock from a runaway train, McNiven made sure the emotional weight of the story hit as hard as the locomotive. “It’s flashing back to a particular event, and as the story unfolds we get more about that event and how it’s affected Wolverine.

“I definitely thought a down shot would work with that to give it a sense of him being collapsed and done—beaten up,” says the artist. “He’s a great character to bash around. It’s fun to draw him when he’s just on his last legs. You can really bang him up.”

THE FUTURE
One of the toughest elements to the story for McNiven to nail out of the gate was creating a world as dire and dangerous as his aged lead.

“His home in the future, I needed to make it a little more of…well, a sh--hole,” laughs the artist. “All that dystopian, ‘Blade Runner’ stuff is things I grew up on. I grew up on William Gibson [novels], so it’s not too far of a stretch for me. But I live in Nova Scotia, so it’s a far cry from the decayed urban environments that you see in that. Because we have Wolverine outside of the city, we wanted to make it a little rundown and beaten up.”

STUMBLING FOOL
This rough-and-tumble tromp through the woods is the opening page of Millar and McNiven’s first issue. The artist admits it took him multiple drafts to match the mood and intensity of Millar’s kickoff scene.

“The original pages I did were a bit too lush. We wanted to make it a bit more barren, with nature on its last legs rather than the way I’d originally drawn it, which was a bit too…fertile?” he laughs.

Not that the artist minds redrawing. He’s thrilled with the story he’s been given. “I’ve never read anything like it,” McNiven says. “It goes ‘all the way to 11,’ as they say.”



Want to hear more about Millar and McNiven’s run on Wolverine? Read our interview with Millar featuring MORE McNiven sketches.

[Gregory]

Is this (http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/007476868.cfm) a better link?

[ZombieSpeedball]

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/wizarduniverse_1988_225254311

[Fake Pat]

Is this (http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/wizard/007476868.cfm) a better link?

Nah, that's not the right article.

[ZombieSpeedball]

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/wizarduniverse_1988_225438092

[Fake Pat]

Nevermind.

Zombie, you gonna load em all up?

[ClintP]

Works for me.

[ClintP]

Nevermind.

Zombie, you gonna load em all up?

There are 3 images on there.

[ZombieSpeedball]

Nevermind.

Zombie, you gonna load em all up?

Just this last one I see, at the top of the page:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/wizarduniverse_1988_224356779

[Fake Pat]

Just this last one I see, at the top of the page:

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/wizarduniverse_1988_224356779

OK. Thanks. :thumb:

[Donal DeLay]

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[Fake Pat]

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That's what I get.

Some people on Millarworld are having the same problem.

[ZombieSpeedball]

OK. Thanks. :thumb:

No problem.