X Lives of Wolverine #5 Variant Cover

Love the ninja battle! The background adds to the moment. Congrats!

Superb.So intense.

Congrats Paul!  An absolutely awesome Larraz cover!

Thanks Ed!

Great cover.

I kind of feel bad for those ninjas.

Hahaha that one looks terrified! 

FUN-tastic Cover !

Congrats on your first cover! It's an amzing one! 

Thanks!

Oh wow! This is fierce!

X-ceptional cover!!  Really like the facial expression from the guy in front.  He's not likely to survuve after this attack. 

I always love that Wolverine is truly feared among villians.

An absolute STUNNER, Paul (although "stun" is probably the farthest thing from Wolverine's mind right now...), and your write-up is the -perfect- way to describe Pepe's work; he's just so phenomenally talented.  I love that the piece reads just as strongly as a thumbnail as it does at full size, and part of that is due to the incredible lighting of the piece; the warehouse windows (with their tones!) in the background, the overhead lights, the various grey tones of the ninjas' robes...  It's jam-packed to the gills, but super clean and instantly fully readable.  And YES - just look at all that zipatone!  My favorite application has to be over the portion of Wolvie's claws that are backlit by the hanging light... leaving the tips of the blades free to shine and gleam their cold, hard death down on all.  If one was to look upon that gleam in this moment, it would be the last thing you'd see.  As these ninjas are about to find out first-hand (and then the next hand, and then the first hand again, then the next one...)  Gorgeous, Paul!  Huge congrats!

You are spot on--the tonal work in this piece is absolutely exceptional from thumbnail to fully polished art. And YES you spotted my favorite part, the zipatone on half the backlit claws, the pièce de résistance! What an exceptional artistic choice to make. Notice that big foreground blade drawing your eye right to it. Your exceptional eye and comments, as always, are much appreciated Jason!