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Here’s the latest “reveal” —
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Since on Sunday there's no much audience here, I'll return to the LOST ARTICLE by Byrne intended to be published inside of the lettercol of #137. Both excerpts will answer some doubts posted here.
The first excerpt follows what I already posted. Byrne assumes the blame to get rid of the character, which is not new, but the main difference is that this time he was going to do it in front of the readers of the book when the subject was hot, instead of doing it for a magazine with a 10-15k print run.
The second excerpt is the last one of the article which shows that he wrote it for the original ending, and teases with Sentinels.
Just an additional note: This article was retyped by Chris Claremont to add an introduction. At the end, Claremont added a small text after the ending was changed to introduce the album issue, since he mentions the "Elegy" title.
If you reread the 'Art of JB' you'll find out that Claremont and Byrne had plans for the sentinels way before of 'Days of Future Days' but with a different approach, man-sized. This is what Byrne is teasing, not Days of Future Past, which was conceived in 1979 during the end of the Dark Phoenix Saga as one of the first graphic novels. But I'll cover that in a few days.
In the excerpts of TCJ #57 (1980) and 76 (1982) Byrne clearly talks about working from PLOTS.
About the death of Phoenix perfectly described in the original plots of the Saga, I posted a clue in the last image, from the UPC code of the cover of #136. An advance: When Salicrup came aboard, he approved the split of #135 in TWO comics, so this fact delayed the death of Phoenix to #136.
And now, focus on what the cover of #136 REALLY shows: The DEATH of Phoenix. Can't you see the horror and grief in the faces of the characters? That's because "she's dead, Jim".
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