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Eddie Avila
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*****In case I didn't already mention this, it's a continuation from where we left off in TRIO, but One, Two and Three are "guest stars" in this new title. Thought it might be fun to do a sort of "series of crossovers", where each four issue miniseries picks up from the end of the last, but with a different title and new characters.******
What a great idea! Since I never really bought much that JB didn't create, it'll be just like the good old days when JB moved from title to title in that other comic book company! Cool stuff ahead!
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Sean Watson
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JB, why not just make it were the DU characters can cross from their world over into Trio's and the new book like you did with Golgotha. The machine you set up in Trio was able to focus on different time periods. Which you could use to bring characters back and forth from different times in the DU universe. That would be a way to work around the alien invasion story plot. Just an idea. That way to you could have the best of all the worlds you have created.
Edited by sean watson on 11 April 2013 at 8:28pm
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Tim O Neill
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JB: "In case I didn't already mention this, it's a continuation from where we left off in TRIO, but One, Two and Three are "guest stars" in this new title. Thought it might be fun to do a sort of "series of crossovers", where each four issue miniseries picks up from the end of the last, but with a different title and new characters. This plays to the overall effect I have been trying for, first with TRIO, now with ****** ***** -- I want these books to read as if they've been around for a while, so the reader is dropped into the middle of the action, instead of having to wade thru an origin issue (or six). Backstory is picked up as we go along. This is, of course, how I was first introduced to comics. Superman, Batman, Flash, even the FF had been around for a while (I had no idea how long!), and it was fun to "play detective" and pick up the Who, What, Where, When and Why as I read, issue to issue."
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I think this is a great way to read comic books. Meeting characters "already in progress" is the way I was introduced to favorites as well. I found a stack of X-Men comic in my brothers collection with issues missing in between stories, and I had to piece together what I missed.
I really like the miniseries approach, JB - I like how you are weaving them together, and when Golgotha and Quinlan show up, it's such a fun moment for us longtime readers. A fun surprise that we recognize, but something new readers don't need to enjoy the story. A very cool win-win.
THE HIGH WAYS and TRIO are wonderful reads, and I am really jazzed for DOOMSDAY.1. And I'm also looking forward to the surprises we don't know about that you are cooking up in the lab!
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Simon Williams
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Brilliant! That first panel is something else... the angle, perspective... I want to be John Byrne when I grow up!!!
More comics should look like this. Thanks for keeping the style of comics that I love alive and well John! :)
Edited by Simon Williams on 12 April 2013 at 7:55am
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Jodi Moisan
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That looks really nice!!
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Darren Taylor
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Great page John!
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Gundars Berzins
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I can't wait but must.
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Flavio Sapha
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I use to say that JRJR is the distillation of all the best MARVEL artists rolled
into one...now, JB is proving he's the sum of the best cartoonists ever to put
pen to paper! There's so much good stuff to see in that single page! Wow!
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Bill Guerra
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So, I just want to make sure I'm understanding this properly...there will be no "Trio 2" series, but this one instead? If so, I'm bummed about the lack of more Trio, but this idea really sounds fascinating! I'm in for it! The page looks great, too!
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Anthony Vitrano
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I think this is a great way to read comic books. Meeting characters "already in progress" is the way I was introduced to favorites as well. I found a stack of X-Men comic in my brothers collection with issues missing in between stories, and I had to piece together what I missed.
******** Tim, I think you touched upon the "detective" part of the allure and charm of reading comic books (EDIT: this was Tim quoting JB); agree that it's a great way to read comics and is one of the greatest strengths of the medium. I too was intrigued to find out more of what I didn't know seeing what was "in progress". The backstory became tantalizing- making me want to go back and find out whatever I missed (hard to do circa 1974) but definitely helped keep me hooked going forward (a little mystery helps keep the interest going).
I think my local library having individual older issues that could be checked out helped me go backwards in those days. Such an antiquated concept today- my 3 year old son's introduction to serialized comic books will be so much different.
I currently have a MTU Essentials which reprints the good chunk of JB's run on the book and my son is content to flip through it. (So sad I don't want to let him read today's stuff. MY today's stuff when I was three was what got me hooked for life!)
Edited by Anthony Vitrano on 12 April 2013 at 10:46pm
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John Byrne
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One of the really SAD things that has happened, as the marketplace has shrunk and the anal-retentive fringe has moved closer to center, is that publishers have adopted a policy of pandering to that part of the audience.Today, instead of consigning the freak letters -- the ones that complained if the letter writer had not figured out the whole story by page three (and also complained if he HAD!) -- to the trash, editors and writers prowl the internet, and tailor the stories to these readers. As an illustration of this kind of reader, I mention again the complaints I received when I "revealed" in MAN OF STEEL 2 that Lois Lane was an army brat. Variations on "Why wasn't this mentioned in the FIRST issue?? If you don't tell us these things, how are we supposed to know??" To which my reaction was "I DID just tell you!!" A lot of readers are so obsessive about the details, it seems almost as if they are afraid they might be spontaneously QUIZZED at any moment. Which was, I cam to realize, one of the principle objections to the Superman reboot -- suddenly these readers didn't know everything. The "detective" element, which was so exciting to readers in days of yore, was exactly what they loathed.
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Aaron Smith
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A lot of readers are so obsessive about the details, it seems almost as if they are afraid they might be spontaneously QUIZZED at any moment. Which was, I cam to realize, one of the principle objections to the Superman reboot -- suddenly these readers didn't know everything. The "detective" element, which was so exciting to readers in days of yore, was exactly what they loathed.
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I find it very sad that some people think that way. When I discovered comics and realized that Spider-Man, for example, had been around for twenty-some years before I first read about him, I was thrilled by the idea that I had all that history to learn about. I didn't want to know it all at once. That would be like having my dinner instantly beamed into my stomach without a chance to savor each bite.
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