Todd McFarlane lately provided a tour of his studio for ComicBook’s The Collectibles Show, and whereas he was exhibiting off all of his cool stuff there have been a few issues he revealed that I assumed had been actually attention-grabbing as a result of we’ve by no means seen them earlier than.
At one level McFarlane confirmed off a web page from his Spider-Man/X-Force crossover that he was engaged on with Rob Liefeld. When Marvel noticed the web page they threw a match over it and reduce it, so it was by no means revealed, due to the Comics Code Authority’s tips. The artwork sees Juggernaut being brutally stabbed within the face.
It was this censorship that precipitated McFarlane to give up Marvel Comics and begin his personal firm, which ended up being Image Comics. He defined within the video:
“You would have thought I killed a baby or something like that. All of a sudden I’m on the phone with like five editors, and a bunch of people going, ‘Todd, you can’t do it, you can’t do it?’ and it’s like, why? And they said, ‘Becuase it’s in the Comics Code.’ I said, ‘The Comics Code? I’ve been asking for the Comics Code for three years. Why didn’t somebody send me the Comics Code? What is the Comics Code? Is there even a copy, or are you guys just making this up?’ And they were like, ‘Well, we just don’t think it’ll work,’ and then the absurd conversation I had…they just went, ‘Todd, you can’t stab people.’ I can’t stab people? What are you talking about? I just bought an issue of Frank Miller, and the cover is Bullsyee gutting Elektra through the gut. ‘Ohh, well, you can do it in the stomach, you’re doing it in the eye.’
“So, I’m going, ‘Here’s what is going on to occur — I’m a few days from having the newborn. I’m going to be a father; I do not know the way a lot that is goign to eat my time….I’m completed. I’m completed.”
So, this is the reason why he quit Marvel Comics. It makes sense, it was a time where comic books really needed to evolve.
McFarlane also shared a look at a redesign of Wolverine that Marvel Comics asked him to do. Ultimately they never used it, but here is what McFarlane’s vision of Wolverine was at that time. As you’ll see, he went full punk.
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