{"id":3332,"date":"2012-12-07T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2012-12-07T11:31:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:31:48","slug":"mercury-completes-orbit-original-artist-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/?p=3332","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Completes Orbit: Original Artist REVEALED!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Detail from art by Jesse Hamm<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of weeks ago, my friend and Periscope Studio-mate Jesse Hamm<\/a><\/strong> posted the ULTIMATE<\/strong> incarnation of the meeting of\u00c2\u00a0Wolverine and Freddie Mercury<\/a><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0in an epic three-page strip .\u00c2\u00a0Take a moment to head over to Jesse’s blog and click through the pages.<\/a><\/strong> Go on, we’ll be here when you come back.<\/p>\n

Ha!<\/strong> Awesome, right? But what is MORE <\/strong>awesome is the following exchange on a Facebook comics group (click to embiggen):
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That’s right! Rob Marsh <\/strong>came forth and revealed himself as\u00c2\u00a0the artist who created the original<\/strong><\/em> Wolverine\/Freddie Mercury page submitted to Marvel twenty years ago! The page that would eventually inspire me and others to explore the mystery of the meeting of those two great men; one a fictional anti-hero archetype, the other a larger-than-life rock icon lost too soon.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Jesse Hamm. Thanks, everyone who participated in this exercise in comics storytelling (See here<\/a><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0and here<\/a><\/strong>). Thanks, Steve Bunche<\/a><\/strong>, who first posted the original page that got this ball rolling in my head.<\/p>\n

And a very heartfelt thank you<\/strong><\/em> to Rob Marsh<\/strong> for loving the art of comics enough to keep submitting samples in the face of rejection letters, without which dedication none of this would have been possible.<\/p>\n

It’s a kind of magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago, my friend and Periscope Studio-mate Jesse Hamm posted the ULTIMATE incarnation of the meeting of\u00c2\u00a0Wolverine and Freddie Mercury\u00c2\u00a0in an epic three-page strip .\u00c2\u00a0Take a moment to head over to Jesse’s blog and click through the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25PVe-RK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colleencoover.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}