Jock to WRITE and draw 'Savage Wolverine'

[Colin YNWA]

There's a few of these 2000ad creators doing something interesting doing the rounds at the moment so I'll add this to the mix. Jock on Savage Wolverine.

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/07/jock-to-write-and-draw-a-very-savage-wolverine-indeed/

Now Wolverine is normally a character, even when I was a Marvel Zombie who I have little interest in but...

"Logan has the power of regeneration as we know, but he'd only ever be able to regenerate his own cells," Jock explains. "So what if thousands, maybe even millions of years in the future, the world around him has continued to evolve, and he's left literally, a Neanderthal man?"

... way to sell me on a Wolverine story!

[Mabs]

Interesting stuff! I'm sure our Jock'll do a great job!

[Greg M.]

Kinda sounds like a 'Planet Hulk' take on Wolverine. Might well give this a go. I hope they let Jock really cut loose with his depictions of claw-derived carnage - as the cover to the recent 'Shako' collection shows, he gives good gore.

[HdE]

You had me at 'Jock'.

Now, here's hoping they don't spoil it with those silly AR tags.

[Colin YNWA]

I never used to mind the AR tags, they were a genuinely interesting way to experiment with adding applications of new technology to our favourite medium. That was until the last issue of FF which had an AR tag that really helped in understanding a story. A villain was cast to some fate that wasn't really clear until you used the tag. I thought that was poor. They are fine as a fun addition, when they become integral that's not good form and a barrier to enjoyment for those who don't have the required technology, or desire to exploit it.

[HdE]

Wow - that sounds really crap.

I really hope all this pretentious dicking around with technology abates quickly. comics are comics. They are what they are, and always will be. Trying to tweak them like this just turns them into something else.

Uh, I mean... Wolverine! Woo!

[sheldipez]

I never used to mind the AR tags, they were a genuinely interesting way to experiment with adding applications of new technology to our favourite medium. That was until the last issue of FF which had an AR tag that really helped in understanding a story. A villain was cast to some fate that wasn't really clear until you used the tag. I thought that was poor. They are fine as a fun addition, when they become integral that's not good form and a barrier to enjoyment for those who don't have the required technology, or desire to exploit it.

I've been running low on phone space of late, wondering were it was disappearing to until I started going through app management and saw the marvel AR app had nearly 3GB of data cached away! FYI for anyone that uses it to keep an eye on that!

Far too many of the ar vids are pointless joke vids and not enough behind the scene stuffs. And that's without getting into how the ar tags spoil the art.

[Colin YNWA]

I've been running low on phone space of late, wondering were it was disappearing to until I started going through app management and saw the marvel AR app had nearly 3GB of data cached away! FYI for anyone that uses it to keep an eye on that!

Yeah that's the reason I ended up removing it, which is a shame as I found it cute fun. Alas I did it before the FF issue.

[Professor Bear]

Didn't Marvel say they were doing away with editor's notes because they were intrusive and distracting from the story?

This Wolverine stuff sounds a bit like Prophet to me.  This is a good thing.

[HdE]

Well, if the editors DIDN'T say that, then they need to! Those AR tags fill me with an uncommon feeling of violent rage!

[Professor Bear]

You misunderstand my point: they said this years ago to explain why they did away with editor's notes explaining continuity issues.  Now they're back, but new-fangled, not actually informative, and exclude most people from using them - so I'm wondering what the point was.

[TordelBack]

Bear is correct - Archie.

[Link Prime]

This Wolverine stuff sounds a bit like Prophet to me.  This is a good thing.

Indeed.

[HdE]

You misunderstand my point: they said this years ago to explain why they did away with editor's notes explaining continuity issues.  Now they're back, but new-fangled, not actually informative, and exclude most people from using them - so I'm wondering what the point was.

I misunderstand you because of the VIOLENT RAGE! A day later, and I'm still in an AR tag induced mouth-frothing murder-frenzy!

(Well, *maybe* I oversell that a bit.)

I've always hated editorial notes. They always seem to me like a big neon sign saying 'You don't understand what we just did because you need to spend more money on our books

I still see them in a lot of books, and they always feel horribly old hat to me.