Why did Wolverines arms suddenly become hairy?
When you were drawing Wolverine in your run on UNCANNY X-MEN, Logan was depicted as having very hairy arms while out of costume and sometimes having “unhairy” arms in costume — sometimes in the same issue. Was there any reason for this? JB: First, let me grumble a bit. For some reason, I have developed a reputation for changing characters. Usually when I actually do this, it is restoring them to their original forms, but the impression is more that I charge in like a juggernaut, scattering defenseless editors in my wake. The truth is closer to the other end of the spectrum. I have seen my stuff redrawn more times than I can shake a stick at, and while I accept this generally as a part of the business we’re in, I find it frustrating sometimes that other artists seem to “get away with it” when I don’t.
When you were drawing Wolverine in your run on UNCANNY X-MEN, Logan was depicted as having very hairy arms while out of costume and sometimes having “unhairy” arms in costume — sometimes in the same issue. Was there any reason for this? JB: First, let me grumble a bit. For some reason, I have developed a reputation for changing characters. Usually when I actually do this, it is restoring them to their original forms, but the impression is more that I charge in like a juggernaut, scattering defenseless editors in my wake. The truth is closer to the other end of the spectrum. I have seen my stuff redrawn more times than I can shake a stick at, and while I accept this generally as a part of the business we’re in, I find it frustrating sometimes that other artists seem to “get away with it” when I don’t. For a long time, under the Shooter Rules, I put this down to the fact that I was way off up in Canada, so I could not really make a fuss, while other artists were there in New York, where
