some J.H. Williams III in black and white.
Wolverine, Vol. 3 # 02 by Esad Ribic.
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Detective Comics, Vol. 1 # 857, by J.H. Williams, III.
*an homage to Frank Frazetta’s Black Colossus Conan cover*.
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Apparently, Greg Rucka has problems with the way Frank Cho has been portraying Wonder Woman, on his series of variant covers. So much so, he created a professional environment that Frank no longer wanted to be in, and quit after making it through 6 of 24 covers.
If that’s true, it’s disappointing. Whatever your opinions on previous Cho controversies, his WW covers are on point. Below, you can see where one of the images was cropped to hide a panty line. You’d be hard pressed to convince me there is any vulgarity in these drawings.
It’s even more perplexing when you look at the actual interior art.
So, Frank answered themarysue’s request for a comment
Since you’re asking me a straight question, I’m going to answer honestly as possible from my point of view.Wonder Woman was my dream job at DC Comics. I love and respect the character very much. When I was invited by DC to draw the 24 variant covers for Wonder Woman, I was ecstatic. I was told that I had complete freedom on the variant covers and the only person in charge of me was the senior art director, Mark Chiarello, who I greatly respect. Win-win for everyone.Now the variant covers are handled by entirely separate editorial office than the rest of the books. I was given assurance that I would not have to deal with the Wonder Woman book writer or editor at all, and were told I would only be dealing with Mark Chiarello. So I came onboard and started working right away.Everything went smoothly at first. I turned in my first batch of cover sketches and Chiarello approved them, and I started finishing and inking them ASAP since these were biweekly covers and we had limited time. Then Chiarello started getting art notes from Greg Rucka ordering him to tell me to alter and change things on the covers. (Remove arm band, make the skirt longer and wider to cover her up, showing too much skin, add the lasso here, etc.) Well, Chiarello and I were baffled and annoyed by Greg Rucka’s art change orders. More so, since the interior pages were showing the same amount or more skin than my variant covers. (For example: Issue #2, panel One, etc.) I requested that Greg Rucka back off and let me do my variant covers in peace. After all, these were minor and subjective changes. And let’s face it, being told by a non-artistic freelancer what I can and cannot draw didn’t sit too well with me.Then things got ugly. Apparently unbeknownst to Chiarello and me, DC, for whatever reason, gave Greg Rucka complete and total editorial control on Wonder Woman including variant covers by contract. My promises of creative freedom were verbal. I think this is a case of complete miscommunication and things falling through the crack during the post-DC headquarter move to LA. Had I’ve known Greg Rucka had complete editorial control over the variant covers, I would have never came onboard Wonder Woman.Since we were on the same team with the same goal – making great Wonder Woman comics, Mark Chiarello and I tried to reason with Greg Rucka to back off and let me do the variant covers in peace. But Rucka refused and tried to hammer me in line. Things escalated and got toxic very fast. The act of a freelance writer art directing me, overruling my senior art director, altering my artwork without consent was too much. I realized after Rucka’s problems with my Wonder Woman #3 variant cover, my excitement and desire for the project have completely disappeared and I decided to bow out quietly after I finish my Wonder Woman #4 variant cover. (This was around end of May.) But DC wanted me to stay and finish out #5 and #6 covers to give them some time to find my replacement.So I stuck it out and tried to deal with the flagrant disrespect for six issues, and quietly stepped off until Bleeding Cool gave me little choice but to respond. They caught wind that there was some discord in the Wonder Woman office over my covers and was about to cast negative light on the wrong people. So I went public yesterday and set the story straight, correctly naming Greg Rucka as the source of the problem before the wrong information was published.
Greg can do what he wants in this case, but this makes the man look cowardly and petty to me. It seems a personal attack on the man professionally, because of different politics. He should have just said he wanted him off the book.
Frank’s going to be OK. He’ll get a year of Wonder Woman commission requests out of this, and other side affects. Rucka just looks like the lesser man.
Wolverine, Vol. 3 # 02 by Esad Ribic.
the interiors were Penciled by Darick Robertson, with Inks by Tom Palmer, Colors by Studio F, Letters by Chris Eliopoulos, and the Script was Written by Greg Rucka.
the first 19 issues of Wolverine, Vol. 3 were written by Rucka, and they are overlooked by fans that came to the title for Mark Millar and JRJR’s seminal “Enemy of the State”. do yourselves a favor and reread Rucka’s tenure on this book. it was freaking great.
a Punisher, Vol. 8 # 01 Variant Cover, as Illustrated by Neal Adams, with Colors by Jason Keith.
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Wizard #110 “Murder, Inc” article featuring crime Ed Brubaker, Brian Michael Bendis, Brian Azzarello, & Greg Rucka.
I didn’t read a lot of the crime books mentioned in the article until years later. They’ve become some of my favorite comics.
Truly a murderer’s row of comics’ best writers.
hilarious.
we did that photoshoot at san diego comicon like 14 years ago. i won’t say who but two of those writer’s were not acting they did NOT want to be there. can you guess who?
Batman: Turning Points, Vol. 1 # 5, by Paul Pope.
Wonder Woman, Vol. 2 # 199, by Phil Noto.
Detective Comics, Vol. 1 # 752, by Dave Johnson.
Greg Rucka and Michael Lark tipped their hats to Ann Nocenti and John Romita, Jr. in an issue of the Punisher.
the first two images are the process for pages 22-23 of Daredevil, Vol. 1 # 257. That issue was written by Ann Nocenti, penciled by John Romita, Jr., inked by Al Williamson, and colored by Max Scheele.
The last five images are the process for the aforementioned tip of the hat/homage, which was published in the Punisher, Vol. 8 # 07, on pages 09-10. That issue was written by Greg Rucka, penciled by Michael Lark, inked by Stefano Gaudiano, and colored by Matt Hollingsworth.
Lastly, I personally find it kinda interesting to see how Michael Lark broke down the page, versus how it was actually published. I think it is like a 'peak behind the curtains' into the thought and design behind the scene.
cover art process for the Avenging Spider-Man, Vol. 1 # 06, penciled by Steve McNiven, inked by Mark Morales, and colored by Marte Gracia.
Detective Comics, Vol. 1 # 775, by Bill Sienkiewicz.