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Paul Wills
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It almost feels like I'm watching a movie with these pages!
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Steven Queen
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I've seen inkers too many times over the years turn JB's work into "not John Byrne art" to in-any-way-shape-or-form wish these pages were inked. This is the Real Deal here.
What astonishes me more is how undiminished (or perhaps even improved) his talent is by the years.
(For the record, I'm not calling you old Mr. Byrne!).
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Brian Miller
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Kate journeyed back in an effort to change the timeline, which she did
by preventing the murder of Senator Kelly. At that moment, she should
have ceased to exist, disappearing out of Kitty as if she’d never been
there.
*****
👍🏻
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Paul Wills
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I've seen inkers too many times over the years turn JB's work into "not John Byrne art"-------------------------- I agree - In the past I've seen some inkers make the art look like their style and was always disappointed. I want to see John Byrne art, not **** art!
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John Byrne
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Kate journeyed back in an effort to change the timeline, which she did by preventing the murder of Senator Kelly. At that moment, she should have ceased to exist, disappearing out of Kitty as if she’d never been there.***** 👍🏻 •• What was particularly frustrating in this was that I had fought and won on the point that Kate's actions would not create an "alternate timeline". I'd even convinced Captain Mulitiverse himself, Mark Gruenwald, that the mechanics of the trip (Kate going back thru her own "mind-line") meant there was no point where a divergence could happen. Then Chris wrote what he wanted, and neutered my story.
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Chris Durnell
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It took me a moment to figure out the last panel wasn't three or four separate figures, but the same figure "congealing" in time. (At first I was trying to determine who the other "skeletons" were.)
I imagine this is something that would be made more clear by the colorist like how sometimes we'd see three or four Caps/DDs/Spiders in the same panel moving with one figure fully colored, and the others colored in lighter colors in order to illustrate motion and time.
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Mark Ward
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I remember very well the day I picked up X-Men 108 from a 7-11 spinner rack. It was during one of my brother's soccer games on a Saturday in Sebastopol, California. I was 11. I assume it was only a few months after Star Wars came out and it had that flavor big time. It was my first issue of X-Men, and while it wasn't the first comic I bought, it was because of this issue the first series I bought religiously going forward, and the first series that sent me to comic-book stores and back issue mail catalogs to complete a collection going back to 1963, so when I think of the X-Men it's JB first, Neal Adams second, Cockrum third, Kirby, etc. I also think of Claremont, of course, but 108 was the first time I recognized art transcending its supposedly disposable media and established tropes, hidden in plain site as it were. Like Peak TV decades later. This new series brings back all these memories because it feels the same as it did in '77, which is quite a feat of time travel. As technically great as the work by Paul Smith, Cockrum's 2nd run and JRJr were, JB, you've definitely recaptured the magic of your 108-144 run. And, as an aside, and as much as you might dislike them, the Imperial Guard have always been my favorite offshoot (I did read LoSH back then without noticing the similarities, and because the narrative perks of super-teams and big casts I was there for the Great Darkness and for the New Teen Titans, too). Along with the Starjammers, Alpha Flight, the Savage Land, the circus issue, the Hellfire Club, DoFP, all of it.
tldr... Much thanks for all this and all that.
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Wallace Sellars
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I'm perfectly happy (ecstatic even) with the pencils JB has provided. Seeing a skilled inker's work over them would be a nice bonus, but is in no way necessary.
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Tim O Neill
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I would say every page twists into a direction I didn't expect, bit now it feels
every panel is a new revelation.
This series is so much damn fun, and what make sit great is how you are
depicting the characters. In particular for me, Scott and Jean's dynamic - this
gap of time in which she was in Jamaica Bay is a chasm between them, and yet
the weight of their relationship colors every interaction between them.
My impression of Scott and Jean is they are soul mates, but I am not versed on
the original team's run before the Cockrum issues.
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Eric Sofer
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Tim - It was intolerable. "I could love Jean... if only my blasted eyebeams weren't so deadly!" "Oh Scott... I wish you wouldn't let your deadly eyebeams come in between us." Repeat twice more an issue, rinse and repeat.
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Brad Hague
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By the time Bishop was created, was that forced upon you by editorial edict?He supposedly came from the future that was instigated by Days of Future Past.
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John Byrne
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Bishop was ordered by marketing. “You must have a new X-Man, and he must be Black.”
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