DELETED SCENE: Resurrection.
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DAVE: We unfortunately had to cut this scene. The original sequence had Vrill wake-up in a dingy, Giger-esque bio-mech laboratory with a creepy surgeon-mechanic putting the finishing touches on the mercenary commander’s new chassis. The whole “can you hear me?” thing created a nice parallel to the scene where Vikki wakes up in the med-bay aboard the MLF crawler, though this is obviously much darker.
But the scene never really fit anywhere. The pacing would’ve been thrown off as the story continues at a pretty frenetic beat for a while. We also have new and insidious villains to introduce shortly and we didn’t want to steal their malevolent thunder.
NIC: I think this scene, though deleted, is important and significant because it shows the true nature and tone of the comic in three panels.
DAVE: How so?
NIC: That Cpt. Vrill survived the explosion and the fall implies that this is a tale of entertainment, where the villains can come back at any minute, cyber-ized or not, and be ready for more. As I once said, FREE MARS has a very 80’s flavour, one that we fuel with things such as Bowie-esque make-up and other musical/cinematic references. But, most of all, I like this scene because this gentleman here embodies the classic hardcore mercenary that just won’t die. He and his never-ending ammo are landmarks of this type of story. And for that, I’m satisfied.
DAVE: In the end, we had to scrap it (no pun intended). Originally, I had planned that the surgeon would be unsure as to Vrill’s feelings about his new body. Until, that is, Vrill lets out an enthusiastic “Yesssssss!” Maybe that’ll show up in the blu-ray…
Cool – Shades of Bobby Newmark, post-wilson…
I’ve got the site bookmarked, so when I hit the tab and this picture popped up the first thought that ran through my head was “you’ve got to be kidding me.” I mean, how can Vader’s automation at the end of Episode III not come to mind?
Now that I’ve gotten that out of me, for clarity when you say ‘deleted,’ do you mean that this never happened and Vrill really did snuff it, or is he actually coming back but you just didn’t want this page in the comic proper?
I agree with BRain on the vader but also the openign credtis to the 6 million dollar man cam in to mind the whole We can rebuild him make him stronger and faster , but NIck man yoru skills are insane I also got the terminator theme music in my head when seeing this , excellent job again Dave and Nic
Norman- thanks. Good to hear from Gibson fans.
There was definitely an intention to sort of pay “homage” here to Episode III, but not in a good way. Right now the Internets are abuzz with Lucas and his additional changes to the original trilogy, many seem like genuinely bad ideas. We kinda wanted to make fun of all that this week. Vader’s, now infamous, “NNNooooooo!” is replaced with an enthusiastic “YYeeesssss!” from our merc commander.
Oh, Brian- your question. Good point.
I’m going to that this brief scene is unofficial, so Vrill may have actually died when he fell 20 stories to the streets of the Jovian Quarter. That said, it certainly would be cool to see this biomechanical bastard return. So, maybe it’s pseudo-official?
For the record, I’m not opposed to Vrill coming back. I was just thoroughly amused by the obvious inspirational parallels. Also, I neglected to mention this the first time; Nic’s art still kicks ass.
Now…
*assumes position on soapbox*
As for Lucas, I agree. These new(er) changes to the old trilogy are just stupid. Vader saying “no” when Luke gets the piss shocked out of him and Obi-Wan’s new krayt dragon call didn’t need to be added. And he still didn’t fix Greedo shooting first. The only thing the old trilogy ever needed was to have the picture and sound remastered, and maybe polish some SFX (like the lightsabers). That’s it. No new dialogue or altered scenes. The only decent change he ever made (which itself is inconsequential) was showing Vader get back to his Star Destroyer in ESTB for the ’97 re-release.
That said, making Yoda CGI in Ep.I was a no-brainer. He should’ve done that in the first place.
*steps down from soapbox*
They should have just saved his brain and spinal cord. All those open gashes are going to get infected!
Also a passing hint at classic Iron Man, with the round power unit on the chest, no?
Eli.
Brain Dave now I feel compelled to weight in on the Starwars topic mainly the whole Greedo shooting first adn he dow and if watch very carfully at least on my old vhs copies of the movies you can see Greedo shooting first then han shooting but Greedo’s shot going wide right and hitting the wall behind Han and Han’s hitting the mark, on a side note Han has a bakery a couple towns over from me
Comichero, I mean no disrespect, but for the love of god would you please type with some semblance of proper grammar. It is nigh impossible at times to understand what you are trying to say.
Sincerely,
Me.