The dynamic storytelling of Ed McGuinness goes to be placed on show like by no means earlier than in a comedian finest fitted to his abilities. In case you’ve been a Marvel Comics fan, you’ve greater than seemingly come throughout artwork by Ed McGuinness in numerous titles like Avengers, Superb Spider-Man, Hulk, and many extra. McGuinness’s bombastic artwork and expressive, kinetic motion will probably be the featured attraction in Marvel All-On-One, a 50-page one-shot written by present Implausible 4 author Ryan North that includes The Thing of the Implausible 4 preventing the complete Marvel Universe in splash pages. Sounds fairly thrilling, proper? As The Thing would say, it’s clobberin’ time!
ComicBook spoke to Ed McGuinness about Marvel All-On-One #1 to discover out his method to tackling a comedian made up totally of splash and double-page spreads, how that differs from engaged on a month-to-month comedian, why Thing is the good Marvel hero for this sort of one-shot, his most anticipated matchups, and extra. We will additionally completely reveal inside pages for Marvel All-On-One #1, on sale August twentieth.
ComicBook: 50 splash pages is a lot for an artist to tackle. I’m curious the way you method a challenge like Marvel All-On-One in contrast to a common month-to-month comedian.
Ed McGuinness: Drawing a guide consisting of solely splash pages could be very daunting. Each web page is a single picture and has to transfer the story alongside in a clear, readable means. I attempted to have a look at each web page as a cowl so far as composition. I had to pay tremendous consideration to the stream and directional momentum as nicely to hold the eye transferring to the subsequent picture. It was a ton of enjoyable and a ton of labor all at the identical time.
In your opinion, what makes The Thing the proper protagonist for an epic conflict like this in opposition to the complete Marvel Universe?
The Thing has all the time been considered one of my favourite characters. He has such a massive coronary heart and is all the time prepared for a struggle. He’s not as robust as the Savage Hulk, as an illustration, however he makes use of his brains to make up for it. He has no stop.
Have been there any matchups that stunned you whereas drawing them up?
There positive are, and one particularly surprising! It was fairly cool to draw to say the least!
To wrap up, what are you most wanting ahead to readers seeing when Marvel All-On-One goes on sale?
I simply hope they’ve as a lot enjoyable studying it as we had making it!
“THE THING VS. THE MARVEL UNIVERSE – A 50-Web page epic advised totally in splash pages!” the description of Marvel All-On-One #1 reads. “Ben Grimm, A.Okay.A. The Thing: He’s the ever-lovin’ idol of tens of millions and powerhouse of the Implausible 4. He’s robust, he’s type, and he by no means offers up. And he’s additionally drained, and he’s sore, and he’s grumpy. There’s all the time a new risk going through the world or the galaxy or the universe – and by some means, he and the remainder of the Implausible 4 are all the time the solely ones who can cease it. Ben Grimm is sick and uninterested in it. He simply needs a break! However when he returns to Earth after a solo mission in house to uncover the Implausible 4 have turned in opposition to him – together with the remainder of New York Metropolis, and, apparently, the complete world – he’s obtained a thriller to remedy…and a complete broad world to clobber. Ben Grimm takes on the complete planet on this particular Marvel Anniversary situation – throughout 50 pages of unimaginable nonstop motion so daring, so colossal, that the solely pages that aren’t splash pages are double-page spreads! •It’s Marvel as you’ve all the time wished to see it, at our greatest – our baddest – our most clobberingest! It’s the wildest story we’ve ever revealed! It’s Marvel All-on-One!”
Marvel All-On-One #1 goes on sale Wednesday, August twentieth. Tell us your ideas on the one-shot in the feedback beneath!
