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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | 1
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Would it bother you if I said it was one of my favorite periods for your inking?
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John Byrne
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | 2
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We'd just have to agree to disagree! :)
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Brian Floyd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | 3
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Johnny's powers would be useful for one reason that I can think of: Barbecue restaurant. He could fire those pits up real quick!
(I can think of other useful applications, but that's what I'd do with them.)
Now, what I want to know is, if Johnny goes to the beach, is he immune to getting sunburned?
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Richard Stevens Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 04 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1954
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | 4
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I'd love to see a Johnny Storm take on those liquid salt-based solar power plants. Maybe one of his hobbies is helping to reduce atmospheric carbon by keeping a city or two fueled up, preferably somewhere disadvantaged that needs the help.
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Jim Petersman Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 26 June 2012 Location: United States Posts: 650
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | 5
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"Hm. Not a good period for my inking."___________________________________
Here's where my art ignorance stymies my understanding. You were both penciller and inker on this issue. What is it you see in the inking specifically that bothers or disappoints you, JB?
I ask because my brain doesn't seem to be able to differentiate the inking from the total drawing. Or, quite possibly, I don't really understand inking.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | 6
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T'is enough to say I am dissatisfied. More would just be feeding the trolls.
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Jean-Francois Joutel Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 7:36pm | IP Logged | 7
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Hm. Not a good period for my inking.
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You were pretty busy those days. Writing the Thing; writing and illustrating Alpha Flight; writing and illustrating Fantastic Four, and doing a whole bunch of unaffiliated covers (probably forgetting some other stuff too). Not since Kirby have I seen a person carry so much on their plate.
Back to the original topic, I thought the Mystery Men had some pretty good observations on useless powers. Especially the invisibility, so long as no one is looking at him.
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Thomas Woods Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | 8
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Not useless at all, but I always felt Angel had the 'worst' power, followed by Cannonball. Would be glad to have those powers myself, but in a world of superheroes I would have felt like I got the short end of the stick.
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Rick Whiting Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | 9
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It's the same with movies. The amount of times characters have been thrown through glass windows, jumped off buildings and grabbed onto something without having their arms ripped off and jumped out of moving cars without a scratch but yet we still go and watch films and TV shows. They're there to entertain. If films / TV shows were realistic they'd last maybe a minute and be very very boring.
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Trevor, I agree with everything you said. One of the things that I really hate about most modern superhero comics from the Big 2 and most of the live action film and TV adaptions is that the comics creators,filmmakers, and show runners keep trying to make this stuff as realistic as possible. I especially hate how Hollywood feels the need to make superhero films more "grounded" and "realistic" so that they can appeal to non comic book readers, but then turn around and make action flicks with ordinary people who are doing "superhuman" feats.
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Jim Petersman Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | 10
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"T'is enough to say I am dissatisfied. More would just be feeding the trolls."___________________________
I hear you.
So that I don't drift the thread again, I'll choose Cloud from the Defenders as a pretty useless power as far as the Marvel Universe goes. There's a She-Hulk guest star if I ever did see one.
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Robert Bradley Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 07 April 2018 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | 11
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Thomas - the Angel's power of flight wasn't so unimpressive in 1963 when Marvel's stable of heroes included flyers like Iron Man, Thor, the Wasp, Doctor Strange and the Human Torch.
Over the years when more and more powerful heroes were introduced he became much more irrelevant. At least Hawkman had an arsenal of weapons to fall back on. For a brief period of time the Angel had Hercules' mace, but eventually it was deemed necessary to give him a power boost and secondary mutation.
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Mario Ribeiro Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 08 April 2018 at 6:10am | IP Logged | 12
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I believe "R.and R." was the first FF story I read (if not, it was the second). In the second page, the powers of half the team were not only introduced (for newcomers), but also in new, fresh ways (for long-time readers). Very well done. JB!
Edited by Mario Ribeiro on 08 April 2018 at 6:11am
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