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Dan Slott
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Posted: 29 March 2019 at 1:02am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
JB, Hi!
Following you from Marvel Team-Up to FF was more of a factor of how old I was at the time and how much money I had to spend on comics.

In grade school, the 5 or so titles I regularly followed (and could afford to follow) were Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two-In-One, Detective Comics, and The Brave and The Bold. (I liked Spidey, Batman, and Team-Up books).

By the time you were starting your FF run, I was getting more allowance and I could afford to pick up another title. It was an easy choice because you were drawing it and it also featured the Thing (who I loved from MTIO).

So I'm someone who read your FF run *first*, became a die-hard fan, and then went *back* and collected all of your X-Men run. By the time I was a senior in high school, I was one of your "Faithful 50", reading everything you were currently putting out at that time, and had raided every back issue box I could find of *anything* you'd drawn and that I'd missed. Including WHEELIE AND THE CHOPPER BUNCH. ;-)

I get similar accounts from Spidey fans who hopped on board with Superior Spider-Man and have gone back to catch up on my earlier Big Time and Brand New Day runs. Every comic is somebody's first, and everybody comes to a creator's body of work in their own way and time. And it's all good. :)
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Posted: 29 March 2019 at 7:11am | IP Logged | 2 post reply
“John Byrne isn't a sci-fi fantasy adventure fan. I always wondered back in 1978 why didn't he try his hand at Marvel's 'Star Wars' as much as I love his draftsmanship style and his take on Starlord ( I'm not a fan of GOTG) even that story he and Claremont came up with was kind of tame and lame.”

What now? I’m NOT a sci-fi fantasy adventure fan? Boy, I guess that explains why my career has been so unfulfilling for 45 years. <sarcasm>

Oh, and STARLORD? I was strictly Art Robot on that one. If it was “tame and lame” that can be laid on Chris’ doorstep—as, indeed, can the opposite.

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Leigh DJ Hunt
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Posted: 29 March 2019 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Dan, it's been clear to me over the years that a lot of your work has has some homage to JB's work, especially the Thing/She-Hulk and GLA work. Helped by having artists who often are heavily influenced by JB such as Paul Pelletier and Andrea Di Vito. 

The current FF run is not giving me the same vibe however, not sure if that's down to the stories or the inconsistent artwork.

EDIT: Now I've read this week's FF and it has a big JB call-back with Wendy's Friends which was nice to see as I loved that issue. 


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Shane Matlock
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Posted: 29 March 2019 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
JB, anyone who thinks you aren't a sci-fi fan really needs to read your Star Trek stuff at IDW. Actually anyone, Byrne fan or not, who likes Star Trek: TOS should read your IDW stuff especially the photo comics, because it's the closest we will probably ever come to new episodes of the original series. But also how can anyone have read almost any of your work and come away thinking you aren't a fan of sci-fi?

Dan, my favorite comics of yours were the ones you got into because of John Byrne... She Hulk, Great Lakes Avengers, and the Thing. I was not a fan of your Spider-Man run but have been enjoying your FF. Wish Esad Ribic was doing the interiors because his covers are beautiful. Not to knock the artists because I enjoy Sara Pichelli and Aaron Kuder, but Ribic is just on another level.  


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Posted: 29 March 2019 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
“I'm shocked Byrne didn't shoot the host in the face for so much as looking at him wrong as he usually does to everybody else he's ever come into contact with.”

Isn’t the internet great? You can say ANYTHING without having to provide even the tiniest scrap of supporting evidence!

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Rich Marzullo
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Posted: 29 March 2019 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
These commentators have issues.
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Leigh DJ Hunt
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Posted: 30 March 2019 at 2:21am | IP Logged | 7 post reply
That one just sounds like exaggerated sarcasm. At least that's what I'm hoping.
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Posted: 30 March 2019 at 5:28am | IP Logged | 8 post reply
We’d like to think so, but I’ve seen too much of this. People who’ve realized anything they put on the web will be out there forever.
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“Yeah, I can relate to John. I remember reading the Marvel Team-Up multi-issue sage with Scarlet Witch, Moon Dragon, Vision, Dr. Doom and, of course, Spiderman.    That totally blew my young brain away.”

Uhmm......

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Eric Ladd
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The detractors are tough to spot in that sea of positive comments. I also like Michael Avila's response to "ego" guy.
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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 04 April 2019 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply
Just caught the latest (and I assume last?) installment of the interview. Very cool to see some surprising faces show up (When Neal Adams says that perhaps it's time to pick up the pencil again, you'd best listen, dammit!)
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Here's the link to the latest video:
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