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Brad Brickley
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| Posted: 23 November 2010 at 8:13pm | IP Logged | 1
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There it is. Thanks. I really like finding out this part of the JBverse, not having read this portion of JB's work.
It's like finding an Elvis song I hadn't heard and really rocking out. Fun!
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Wallace Sellars
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| Posted: 23 November 2010 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | 2
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Scratch that. I just saw the old hardcover. I thought there might be a new,
IDW hardcover treatment.
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Francis Grey
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| Posted: 23 November 2010 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | 3
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Been reading my way backwards from issue # 30. Now I am down to issue # 10. One of the things that has been piquing my interest the most, however, are some of the discussions in the old letter columns. Totally forgot that at one time JB had planned sequels to 2112 along the lines of 2113 or 2114. Also very interesting to me was JB's comment in one of the letter columns about Mary Ellen Colby. JB said he intends for her to eventually become a fully realized character. I believe she left off in about # 29 or 30 in her hospital bed after her beating from Gillian. I wonder where her heart will take her? Will she feel remorse for her own deeds, or will she seek ultimate revenge against Gillian? And this is going to sound weird, since she has really only been a supporting character with a few short appearances, but I feel like one of my favorite characters in the whole book is little Chrissy.
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Francis Grey
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| Posted: 23 November 2010 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | 4
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Now here is an odd thought. No doubt this idea would not serve any of JB's story plans. But what if there were a Next Man/mutate with a "handicap" of not being able to trigger others through sexual contact. The character would be the only mutate able to have a "normal" sex life without running the danger of creating more "Sandys" or "Sathananses."
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Arc Carlton
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DCBS charged my credit card this week for the Next Men 1's that I ordered, including the sketch cover. I'm hoping that they receive enough sketch covers to ship to all the people that ordered them! _____________________________ I couldn't order one because DCBS said they would only be getting a limited amount of sketch covers so they eliminated that option from the site. And to think I had a chance of ordering it the very first week of October. Darn it!
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Francis Grey
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| Posted: 23 November 2010 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | 6
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But, this is my own personal note to the long-awaited return of JB's epic. Myself, I have had a long estranged relationship with my 15 longboxes since 2002. We were separated for five years when I relocated with my family for a job. Then we've lived in six different places since 2007. The last time I really had access to my comic collection was in 2002, and I was halfway in the middle of trying to figure out how to split my collection in half between what to keep and what to purge, so everything is halfway organized between two separate alphabetizations within the fifteen long boxes. Plus everything I've collected since 2002 which is scattered in several other boxes. So imagine my ecstasy when, down at the old place we are now in the process of moving out of on weekends two hours away, I finally once again laid my hands on my own copy of 2112!!!! I am so STOKED! I am finally going to get to read it again! Should I wait until I finish all of my old Next Men issues, or should I break the sequence and go for it?!! Gahhh! It's almost as exciting as waiting one month for Iron Man to come back and beat the Living Laser in "Escape from Heaven's Hand!"
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Anthony Warlow
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Scratch that. I just saw the old hardcover. I thought there might be a new,
IDW hardcover treatment.
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yeah, the original Dark Horse hardcover had the deleted last page of the limited series (a cliffhanger ending) AND the 3 page DU preview from SDCC. A better edition, IMHO, than the IDW trade.
DU was the Byrne book I was most excited about back then - it was John Byrne doing superheroes, not derivative super heroes/faux reality like in Next Men.
I think it's still the book that would bring new readers to the table - but maybe that's just the fan in me thinking.
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Wallace Sellars
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I like those four issues of DANGER UNLIMITED, and it would be nice
to see more. However, I'm incredibly happy that it's JBNM that's going
to be back in stores!Hmmm... I wonder... Do Action Maxx and Doctor Trogg exist in the
world of Danger Unlimited?
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Francis Grey
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I don't see any reason why they couldn't.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 November 2010 at 6:21am | IP Logged | 10
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Hmmm... I wonder... Do Action Maxx and Doctor Trogg exist in the world of Danger Unlimited?++ I don't see any reason why they couldn't. •• I suppose if we play a game of "Six degrees…" the argument could be made that DANGER: UNLIMITED exists as a comicbook series in the NEXT MEN "reality". After all, Hellboy is a comicbook character there, and he appeared in DU. Not likely to happen, tho!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 November 2010 at 9:19am | IP Logged | 11
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…derivative super heroes/faux reality like in Next Men…•• You're working a little bit too hard there.
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Joel Tesch
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| Posted: 24 November 2010 at 10:11am | IP Logged | 12
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That awesome DU pic reminds me of one of my favorite elements of that series...the glimpses we got into various stages of Doc Danger's gradual metamorphoses into an almost Modok-like head and body. The Doc Danger we see in issue one during their last battle is pretty grotesque...poor guy! The fact that his was obviously a gradual change was the coolest part to me (we aways saw instant changes, ala Hunk or the Thing).
Edited by Joel Tesch on 24 November 2010 at 10:12am
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