IRON MAN HYPERVELOCITY rough

My cover rough for the first issue of IRON MAN: HYPERVELOCITY, the six-issue miniseries that I wrote and laid out for Marvel Comics. In fact, as of today (2/7/07), the second issue should be on the stands.

The actual, published cover was done (and done well!) in Illustrator by artist Brian Denham, whose DA address I'll attempt to link to ASAP. Photoshop whizzes Guru eFX did the suh-weeeeet coloring on the final piece.

As for the project itself, lemme paste in my sparkling solicitation copy here:

IRON MAN: HYPERVELOCITY #1:

A single, grueling night of high-speed, mechanized mayhem finds Tony Stark and a new, uniquely improved version of the Iron Man armor caught in the crossfire between the bleeding-edge technology of an insurgent mecha subculture and the massed hardware of an elite “cape-killing” paramilitary force. Besieged by ballistic missiles, supersonic jihadi LMDs, seductive viral avatars and cyberdrug-addled roboravers, Iron Man must push himself far beyond his technological and biological limits to survive the onslaught of ultra-tech war machinery...