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Meltdown comics havok wolverine9/27/2023 ![]() I mean, look at that scraggly beard, and the hair-like-a-horn thing going on here… I wonder whether Williams really disliked the Wolverine character. There’s way too much of dialogue like this: I know it’s not meant to be naturalistic, but even in an Evil Russian Scientist Convocation way, it’s just beyond stilted. It makes for choppy reading when you have to backtrack. (It’s the woman saying “now that you’ve demonstrated” etc.) Way too often the tails seem to point to the wrong character, or are ambiguous. ![]() The main problem with the storytelling is actually the speech balloon placement. ![]() I didn’t know whether Muth and Williams would strictly keep drawing their “own” characters, but… I think the inset is by Williams and the Havok panel is by Muth?īut this must by all Muth, I think? Anyway, Muth’s artwork does display some of the common problems with fully painted characters: They look a little less dynamic than super-heroes should do. (And a horny technician.) I don’t know… is it crass to use such a recent catastrophe as a plot point? We start off in a very topical way: It turns out that the Chernobyl disaster was the result of sabotage by anti-Glasnost Soviets. How’s that going to work out?Īnd even more oddly, among the first few pages we get a spread by Sherilyn VanVankenburg. The odd thing here is that the artists are apparently not cooperating, but instead drawing separate scenes? Muth is doing the Havok scenes and Williams is doing the Wolverine scenes. Whatever the reasoning, this would seem to be (conceptually) the most perfect Marvel/Epic crossover book: It’s got writers with impeccable Marvel credentials, and the artwork is done by two of the most accomplished creators of painted artwork that Epic had employed (Muth, for instance, on the much-lauded Moonshadow series and Williams on, for instance, the less lauded Blood: A Tale series). Surely these books would have sold better if they’d have the “Marvel” logo on the covers? Was the point to use these as a way to bring more attention to the other Epic books enticing Marvel fans to buy Stray Toasters by publishing an X-Men spinoff in the same format? Marvel experimented with doing a few more upscale Epic books featuring Marvel characters, and I still don’t quite understand the logic. By Walter Simonson, Louise Simonson, Jon J Muth and Kent Williams
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