On his blog at Marvel.com, executive editor Tom Brevoort provides a glimpse behind the creative curtain of Doctor Strange: The Oath #1, by Brian K. Vaughan and Marcos Martin.
Calling it “a basic step-by-step tutorial on how a comic book page or sequence is made,” Brevoort begins to break down the evolution of the first issue, from initial outline to first draft to revised script.
It’s interesting to note that in the first draft, the hospital waiting room scene featured Iron Fist and Gravity.
However, Brevoort writes: “As it turned out, Gravity was unavailable (wrapped up in events in BEYOND! at the time), so we wound up substituting Arana in his place …”
He promises Martin’s page layouts in today’s installment.
November 14th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Link goes to articule about Nic Cage, not Brevoort’s blog
November 14th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Fixed it. Thanks.
November 14th, 2006 at 11:07 am
22 pages of story + 1 cover +29 frickin’ pages of ads = an annoying reading experience.
in the magazine business, if there are more ads you get more “content”. it’s called ad/edit ratio.
this is called crapping on your readers.
November 14th, 2006 at 4:26 pm
So Gravity was left out because he’s off-planet in Beyond? If that’s the case, so is Spider-Man.
Arana is clearly lying, therefore she has been replaced by a robot duplicate.