That's right folks. Turner's mystery first full project at Marvel is with Jeph Loeb as the writer and Ultimate Wolverine as their subject. Newsarama.com hits us with the inside scoop as they talk about the new reveal.
"That's the news coming out of today's Saturdays Ultimate Panel at WizardWorld: Chicago. Both of these Marvel exclusive talents were announced at last year's show at this very venue, and speculation has been rampant on their potential collaboration and the extent of Turner's upcoming work with the House of Ideas. So far glimpsed only in some eye-popping covers for Wolverine: Origin [to your right] and Civil War, this (for the moment) six-issue limited series marks Turner's first interiors work for Marvel but a return to his frequent collaborator and friend in Loeb.
Superstar casting aside, Jeph Loeb has always maintained that his work is "all about the story". One has to wonder what story or idea drew him and Turner to this character and ultimately this mini-series.
"It's a chance to create something new with a character who is so familiar to the readership and to the public at large," said Loeb. "Michael Turner and I were at a dinner with [Marvel Editor-in-Chief] Joe Quesada in Los Angeles and were batting around ideas. Mike's sketchbook of the X-Men had just appeared in Wizard and it was very much on my mind. But the Marvel Universe is very tied together and interrupting any X-book is a complicated process, which is one of the reasons why I'm drawn to the Ultimate Universe. It's still small enough and new enough that creatively we can do something that is, for want of a better word, groundbreaking."
"That's the news coming out of today's Saturdays Ultimate Panel at WizardWorld: Chicago. Both of these Marvel exclusive talents were announced at last year's show at this very venue, and speculation has been rampant on their potential collaboration and the extent of Turner's upcoming work with the House of Ideas. So far glimpsed only in some eye-popping covers for Wolverine: Origin [to your right] and Civil War, this (for the moment) six-issue limited series marks Turner's first interiors work for Marvel but a return to his frequent collaborator and friend in Loeb.
Superstar casting aside, Jeph Loeb has always maintained that his work is "all about the story". One has to wonder what story or idea drew him and Turner to this character and ultimately this mini-series.
"It's a chance to create something new with a character who is so familiar to the readership and to the public at large," said Loeb. "Michael Turner and I were at a dinner with [Marvel Editor-in-Chief] Joe Quesada in Los Angeles and were batting around ideas. Mike's sketchbook of the X-Men had just appeared in Wizard and it was very much on my mind. But the Marvel Universe is very tied together and interrupting any X-book is a complicated process, which is one of the reasons why I'm drawn to the Ultimate Universe. It's still small enough and new enough that creatively we can do something that is, for want of a better word, groundbreaking."
