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Mike Sawin
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Posted: 30 July 2006 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

But...that picture doesn't look anything like Hugh Jackman.
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Daniel Kendrick
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Posted: 30 July 2006 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

I agree with Mike.....it's not pretty boy and I mean c'mon, look at those claws! They look like claws and and...they CURVE!?!?

*bad joke, keep on moving*

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Matthew Hansel
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 4:20am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Marvelous!

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Thanos Kollias
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 5:22am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Bah, what does Byrne know about Wolverine? This one is all wrong: short, ugly, curved claws, wearing costume....

How I wish Marvel had the guts to approach JB again and let us see him tackle again the characters he draws better than anyone else out there.

Great Wolverine drawing, JB.

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John Byrne
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 5:42am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

JB, how do you picture the cutting edge of the claws?  It seems that, over time, his claws have come to be drawn as blades... a sharp tip and a knife-like edge running from the inside base to the end.

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Back when I was drawing UNCANNY, I saw the claws as having basically a D shaped profile, curve on top, tapering to an almost infinitely fine point. This would have made them, being indestructible, fine for stabbing or slashing -- especially slashing against other metals.

The change didn't really occur "over time", either. It was Frank Miller, in the WOLVERINE miniseries, who decided to draw them as little Samurai swords -- Frank was in his ninja period -- even tho I pointed out to him at the time that doing so put the cutting surface on top of the blade, meaning Logan's slashing movements would have to be backhanded for the blades to work. Other artists realized this too, I guess, as the blades took on a V profile, with the sharp edge down -- but no longer looking like claws. (What was amusing there, to me, was that the less they looked like claws, the more Chris' long-rejected notion that they were a natural part of his body -- "biological adamantium"!! -- came into vogue.)

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Lionel Faure
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 9:11am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

WOW! Now, that's Wolverine!

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Darren Taylor
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 9:13am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

Nice one!
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 9:14am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Awesome Commission Mr. Byrne!!!

Edited by Juan Jose Colin Arciniega on 31 July 2006 at 9:14am
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Matt Fugate
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

The expression on his face almost makes it look like he's got just the middle claw of his right hand out, if you know what I mean :)

Beautiful piece.

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Bill Collins
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

I like the perspective,and that he looks short!
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Chad Carter
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

 

He also looks like a guy you wouldn't want to be around too much. I hate the "mentor" Logan stuff. Wolverine's a mean guy. He's got rage issues. He's like the mean drunk uncle of the MU. The only thing he has to impart is "keep your distance". Leave it to the man who made Wolverine popular to get him right.

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John Byrne
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Posted: 31 July 2006 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

...the man who made Wolverine popular...


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Mea culpa, mea culpa.
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