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Gerry Turnbull
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Loads going on in this issue!
love the nods to Universal,Forry Ackerman and was that a nod to Judge dredd JB?
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John Byrne
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Definite downturn in the art in this period.
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Geoff Gibson
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JB:
Your downturns are more visually exciting than most of the "roses" grown today! But I have some questions based on your comments:
(1) When you look back on your "old stuff" like this and see it as a "down turn" do you try to analyze why you feel it was not up to your expectations? Or do you already know why?
(2) If you do know why this art was a "down turn" -- can you articulate what it was that lead to the down turn?
(3) Along the same lines, as you continue to develop your talent (both writing and art) do you look back on certain periods as periods where you feel you were achieving what you wanted for your art (or writing) and other periods where you were in a "slump" (meaning the art or writing didn't completely satisfy you)?
Thanks,
Geoff Gibson
Edited by Geoff Gibson on 25 June 2007 at 9:02am
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Bruce Buchanan
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Well, I love the scene-setter you wrote on the splash page: "The keening wind is a banshee wail as it whistles over slime-slicked stone. In the crumbling ruins of a castle built of bad dreams, the man called the Thing faces a walking nightmare."
Brrrr!!! Makes me want to double-check my locks and look under the bed for monsters!
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John Byrne
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(1) When you look back on your "old stuff" like this and see it as a "down turn" do you try to analyze why you feel it was not up to your expectations? Or do you already know why? **Everything I do is the best work of which I am capable when I do it, but there are still periods I look at months and years and decades later, and it is so obvious that I was not firing on all cylinders that I wonder how I could possibly not have noticed this at the time. Forest/trees thing, I suppose. (2) If you do know why this art was a "down turn" -- can you articulate what it was that lead to the down turn? **As I have probably made abundantly clear over the years, I am basically never satisfied with my work. In fact, the very idea of being satisfied scares the willies out of me. That way lies stagnation! So here I was experimenting, looking for different ways to shake the cobwebs out of the work. At the time, it seemed to be successful. Looked back upon ---- not so much. (3) Along the same lines, as you continue to develop your talent (both writing and art) do you look back on certain periods as periods where you feel you were achieving what you wanted for your art (or writing) and other periods where you were in a "slump" (meaning the art or writing didn't completely satisfy you)? **Yes, to both, and sometimes at the same time!
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Michael Hogan
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Somebody refresh my memory: who sent that little flying thingie that released Venom?
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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It was Doom (Kristoff), while planting explosive devices and other stuff in order to...
But that would be a spoiler!
By the way, a bizarre issue, but i liked it!
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Dave Phelps
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Here's a hint - you'll find out why it was doing what it was doing in #278.
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Wallace Sellars
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Panel five of the last page looks miiighty spooky...
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Brian Miller
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Love the Gordon inks. Like the epilogue, too.
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Andrew Davey
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While i ws reading Fantastic Four at the time, I don't think i was following the Thing mini-series (if thats what it was).
What allowed Mr. Grimm to change back and forth on the "Beyonder World"?
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Greg Kirkman
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Panel five of the last page looks miiighty spooky...
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There's moment in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (when Judge Doom is flattened by the steamroller, and then gets up and walks over to the helium tank) which always reminds me of that panel.
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