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Jim Petersman
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"I was far enough ahead on FF that Chris was able to see the Jean story as a finished job."___________________________
Ah, the "no good work ethic goes unpunished" form of management. I'm familiar with it. So, would this be the moment you thought "F*** it, I'm off to DC"?
********************** Concerning today's page, I suspect Xavier does have an ulterior motive. If so, I appreciate the way that you write him. He's a good guy, but somewhat callous in his methods. The ends justify the means type of guy, which is a much more difficult character to write and still make likable to the audience.
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Steven Queen
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JB wrote:
That was a go-to move for Chris. He’d ask for characters to dress in “jeans and t-shirts”, and each time it seemed like he was thinking of it for the first time!
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No sure I understand the implication here---was it a coy passive aggressive move to tell you how to illustrate a scene...or was he just forgetting he had been to that well several times?
Today's page looks great, and the story is flowing nicely. (I'd be curious after it's all "out there" to hear what you went back to change.) It's nice seeing Colossus getting some more "screen time" too. Lastly, as has been mentioned already, your depiction of water and the underwater environment is very effective. When did you first get the idea to use those cross-cutting wavy lines?
Edited by Steven Queen on 10 September 2020 at 6:52am
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Wilson Mui
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Fantastic page! I love how you drew Peter
holding his breath.
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Mark McKay
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Peter should have thought through this a little better!
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John Byrne
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So, would this be the moment you thought "F*** it, I'm off to DC"?•• As I mentioned, I had already accepted the Superman assignment. Foolishly, I thought I could work for both companies. (Shooter's boss, Mike Hobson, had wished me well, saying what was good for DC was good for Marvel.) I should have known better. Shooter had called me a "quisling" when I did the UNTOLD LEGEND OF THE BATMAN job, so there was little hope, realistically, that I could continue at Marvel while also working at DC.
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John Byrne
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I suspect Xavier does have an ulterior motive.•• Not MY Xavier!!
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Jason K Fulton
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In the parallel universe where you were able to work for both DC and Marvel concurrently - would you have had the same workload on the Superman titles? Realistically, how many books could you produce a month in the mid 80s?
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Ted Downum
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Pyotr, when he transforms...argh! Bozhe moi, tovarishch! Whales in the Atlantic must have heard that scream all the way to Ireland.
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John Byrne
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In the parallel universe where you were able to work for both DC and Marvel concurrently - would you have had the same workload on the Superman titles? Realistically, how many books could you produce a month in the mid 80s?•• At that time I was routinely turning out three books a month, two full pencils, one "flakedowns" (what Roger Stern called my detailed breakdowns). (One of the stranger discoveries of crossing over to DC was that none of the inkers there seemed to understand what breakdowns were, which resulted in a lot of pages that looked like they belonged in coloring books. The inkers were not adding the blacks and textures, as expected.)
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Andrew Bitner
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I probably didn't note it at the time, but was Colossus' leg injured in the Savage Land?
Edited by Andrew Bitner on 10 September 2020 at 8:11am
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Mark McKay
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| Posted: 10 September 2020 at 8:13am | IP Logged | 11
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Colossus was injured during the Sentinel battle.
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Andrew Bitner
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Ah...thank you, Mark!
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