I loved the JB/ KJ team on this Wolverine arc (minus the last issue, all JB). I saw both of them on the page. Maybe a little bit more of Klaus Janson  but, if I'm not mistaken, the book was done with breakdowns from JB, not full pencil (that's why Klaus may seem heavy handed to some Byrne fans)

I wonder what the figures are on artists being artist/ inker vs. having two people doing it.

I like when artists do their own inking because I'm seeing their work.

Once upon a time, the idea was that a strong storyteller could do pencils that were fairly loose, and thus be able to produce a high count of pages while different inkers tightened and polished the work for reproduction.

Down thru the years, tho, for unknown reasons, pencils seemed to get tighter and tighter, until the inkers were required to do little more than trace what was on the page. (Terry Austin has occasionally referred to himself as a "tracer", meaning no pejorative connotation.)

When we run into inkers who evidently think themselves better artists than the pencilers, this can create problems, of course. I cannot count the number of times I have seen my work "fixed" by inkers who clearly did not have the artistic skills they thought they did!

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They wanted to "modernize" my pencils. Which raises the eternal question, if you don't want what an artist does, why hire that artist?