Hey I’m posting this Dr. Wily cover late, Mega Man issue 10 actually just came out this month. Its the second issue of the ‘The Return of Dr. Wily’, a four issue arc adapting the classic ‘Mega Man 2′ NES game. Its also the second issue I was lucky enough to pencil interiors for. Inside Mega Man battles Crash Man, one of my favorite robot masters from 2! If you read this issue, you should let me know what you think about the Crash Man pages.
Back to issue 9, I was thrilled to get to draw this Dr. Wily Villain Sketch Variant! Here it is without title text, bar code, or anything-
I originally came up with three possible ideas for the cover and quickly sketched out a set of thumbnails for Editor Paul Kaminski to choose from. Here’s what I sent him-
Option 2 here was playing around with the original ‘Rock Man 2′ box art-
It might be kind of hard to see in my rough but you’ve got Mega Man way down at the bottom along with a Met to the left. In the final I wanted to draw all the enemies on the ‘Rock Man 2′ cover in the same positions, along with the explosions. Could have been a lot of fun.
And here’s the winner-
Paul wanted something just a little more evil from Dr. Wily so I gave him these options-
You can see in the final I flipped Dr. Wily around to prevent Mega Man’s helmet from covering the “Sketch Variant” text that would eventually be placed next to the logo. (I also shrank Crash Man down because I wanted to draw his cool arms.)
And bam, thats a sketch variant!
