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Wallace Sellars
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New JBNM in less than 30 days?!? Cool!!!
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John Byrne
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Reviewing some of the previous Next Men lore, as I plunge deeper and deeper into the new arc, I came across a reference to Jazz having been born in 1975!We have DEFINITELY passed the time frame of the original stories!!
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Richard Stevens
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But we're not even close to passing the time frame of wanting to *read* these stories!
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Jeff Thomason
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I just saw the covers for the first two issues and a couple of interior pages. I can't wait! I hope this run goes to 100. The first one ended too quickly.
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John Byrne
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I hope this run goes to 100.•• I'm not sure exactly how long it will take to tell the rest of the story -- for years now I have been saying 20 issues -- but certainly it won't pass issue 50. Most likely not to get all the way to that, really. I'm already feeling my pace on the new stories to be considerably less "leisurely".
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Paul Greer
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JB, have you heard any numbers yet in regards to how many sketch covers you will be doing?
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John Byrne
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JB, have you heard any numbers yet in regards to how many sketch covers you will be doing?•• I think Chris said something around 250.
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Felicity Walker
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John Byrne wrote:
"Reviewing some of the previous Next Men lore, as I plunge deeper and deeper into the new arc, I came across a reference to Jazz having been born in 1975! We have DEFINITELY passed the time frame of the original stories!!"
The original JBNM had technology that made it seem like it took place in the (then) near future--maybe the year 2000. However, we meet a young Hilltop--about age 30--in 1955, and that would make him 75 in 2000. He seems much younger than that, maybe 60 or less. So could it be that JBNM takes place at the same time it was published, but in a universe more technology advanced than our own? Sathanas might have helped.
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Joakim Jahlmar
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JB wrote:
"Reviewing some of the previous Next Men lore, as I plunge deeper and deeper into the new arc, I came across a reference to Jazz having been born in 1975!"
That girl sure is of a good vintage. So say a 35-year-old.
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Rob Ocelot
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Felicity: Funny you should mention this, as it was something I was thinking about just the other day.
JB hasn't revealed a lot of information about triggering other than it being artificially induced (originally) and that it spread unchecked through the rest of the general population primarily through sexual contact.
In genetics there's always a chance that a one in a million (or billion) combination can happen -- it's just statistically improbable. Hilltop may represent that one in a billion individual who naturally exhibited some aspects of triggering. Think of it as good old Aldus inadvertently stealing life in subtle ways from every person he ever touched -- and staying just a little more youthful than his peers.
(for all I know, JB may have conceived of triggering as an 'all or none' type of event with no in-betweens)
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John Byrne
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The original JBNM had technology that made it seem like it took place in the (then) near future--maybe the year 2000. However, we meet a young Hilltop--about age 30--in 1955, and that would make him 75 in 2000. He seems much younger than that, maybe 60 or less.•• I wanted Hilltop to be a robust 75.
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Wallace Sellars
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Well, it's a scientific fact that evil people live longer.
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