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Darick Roberston’s early sketches of Nova, Night Thrasher and more offer a look back at the early days of his career and Marvel’s New Warriors team.
Artist, comic book illustrator and The Boys co-creator Darick Robertson offered a look back at sketches from some of his earliest work for New Warriors from the early 1990s.
Robertson shared a page of sketches titled “Pre Warriors Jan 1992” on Twitter. These sketches include are two head studies of Marvel Boy and Nova along the top of the page and Namorita looking fierce, Night Thrasher showing off his spring-lock blade and Marvel Boy striking a heroic pose underneath. In his own caption, Roberston gives the year and points out this comes from around the time he joined writer Fabian Nicieza on Vol. 1 of the book.
Four of the team’s original six members are represented, with only Firestar and Speedball not present in the sketches. Robertson started work on the series both early in its run and in his own career, over a decade before he co-created The Boys with Garth Ennis. The Boys served as a satire of superhero stories and examined the dangers of the sort of absolute power those beings can hold. The comic series went on to become an Emmy-nominated streaming series for Amazon Prime Video.
The New Warriors were assembled by writer/editor Tom DeFalco as an antidote to the practice of forming teen superhero teams filled with sidekicks. Published by Marvel Comics, the superhero team first fully appeared in The Mighty Thor #412 in 1989.
This sketch also offers a look at the start of what would be a long and storied career for Robertson outside of these two titles as well. He started with Justice League titles for DC Comics, switched over to Marvel to work on several Spider-Man titles in addition to New Warriors, collaborated with Ennis on Transmetropolitan and worked on HAPPY! with Grant Morrison.
Source: Twitter
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