I really dig the pencil Diablo piece.

Interesting to note that JB has already captured his versions of Johnny, Reed and Sue in the character sheet. However, The Thing is pure Kirby in execution.

Since we are sharing. Here is the only JB FF page I own. It is a little blurry. The page is twice up in size and doesn't fit well on my scanner.

I've often talked about my older brother's comic collection and how I discovered the Marvel Universe of the mid to late 70's. It was really cool for me to read those issues (Sphinx/Champions of Xandar/Terrax/Skrull Aging Ray) and JB was doing the art. The names didn't really mean much to me at the time (probably '81-'82) but I liked the art. A year or so later I was at 7-11 looking for the new issue of G.I. Joe, MY first Marvel monthly comic, and I saw a copy of the Fantastic Four #248. I recognized the name "John Byrne". Needless to say, I bought it and continued to buy every month with JB becoming my favorite comic book creator.

I still love the characters and have enjoyed various issues over the years but I never really got over my disappointment of JB leaving the book. I was reading a letter column in a recent issue and a letter writer referred to Jonathan Hickman's run as equalling or even bettering any run in the history of the comic. I respectfully disagree. Jack and Stan's issues are the greatest with JB's being the only one that can even be compared to it.