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The tough guy trilogy newsletter: Wolverine, Batman, Brevoort.
Last weekend I drove to beautiful Victoria, British Columbia and spotted this amazing signed photo in a store window:
Hugh Jackman is, by all accounts, a delightful human being. It’s hard to imagine anyone else as Wolverine when the eventual reboot hap—wait a second
Does HUGH JACKMAN add “WOLVERINE” after his signature with THREE CLAWS THAT ARE ALSO EXCLAMATION MARKS??
How the fuck did I not know this before now??
Here’s my challenge to any of the current X-writers: include this idea in a script where Wolverine has to sign his name somewhere. Do it or die as a coward.
SO YOU HAVE NOTHING NEW OUT I TAKE IT
Not true! I just felt that this information was too important to bury! Today my second issue of Batman, #126, is out! Look at this goddamn page from Jorge and Tomeu! They’re unstoppable!
Plus! More amazing art from Belén and Luis in our Catwoman backup story!
I am #blessed
MORE LIKE #OUTMATCHED
Yes, that too
In other fun news, this week’s newsletter from Editor To The Stars Tom Brevoort has a couple of SALACIOUS CHIP TIDBITS! One reveals that we’ve been working on a What If-ish project together, which is getting reeeeal close to being officially announced!
The other news comes from Tom answering a reader question:
We don’t really have any direct role in the Marvel Studios films and streaming projects. We do maintain an open dialogue with the folks involved, and do regular meetings where everybody shares what they’re working on in a sort of extended show-and-tell session. But nobody on the publishing side is particularly giving any comments on scripts or production choices and whatnot. I do occasionally get called on to help answer questions of need, like some project somewhere that is looking for, say, a New York-based street gang that’s been established somewhere in Marvel continuity. And once in a while somebody may be interested in seeing scripts and artwork for something we have coming up—most recently, it was the current Chip Zdarsky-led DAREDEVIL relaunch that folks were interested in. And given the recent San Diego announcements, it’s easy to see why. (And, really, it was pretty easy to reason out why even before that announcement.)
This is the first I’ve heard of it, and I’m sure Marvel Studios let out a real sigh of disappointment when they got PDFs of my Daredevil reboot that is as far from the Charlie Cox Hell’s Kitchen version as you can imagine. Ha ha oops!! I fucked up again!!!
Anyway, Tom’s newsletter is stellar and anyone interested in comics and comics history should be subscribed to it.
ON THIS WE AGREE
Before I go, the Hugh Jackman thing above reminded me of one of my old illustration gigs for the National Post. The story was about Jackman’s one man musical show and so this is what I did:
I never turned down any comic-related assignment at my old job, until I eventually comicked my way out of the job. Life! It’s weird.
!!! SNIKT !!!
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Little off topic, but this post reminded me of how awesome ur X-men/FF mini was. I was excited about seeing what came next for Franklin and his family with the Krakoa agenda going on. Was there ever meant to be a follow up to that from u? I know Dan kinda killed that with his retconing Franklin as a non mutant, but I can help but imagine u had more to tell with that particular thread.
We're just going to breeze past the fact that he signed that picture to "Goo Goo Goggles"?