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Marcus Hiltz
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WOW. This will get me to end my 6+ year period of not buying comics!
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Lars Sandmark
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| Posted: 25 July 2010 at 10:03am | IP Logged | 2
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JB wrote, "...after I finish the second JURASSIC PARK."heh,
When I logged in just a minute ago I checked this thread first, and read that without noticing the 'official' announcement of the wide screen reveal. I thought "Ha! JB slipped and accidentally let the secret-project title out!"
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Lars Sandmark
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The French edition cover.
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Nathan Greno
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Just read the news!!! :D
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Matt Hawes
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| Posted: 25 July 2010 at 10:49am | IP Logged | 5
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John Byrne wrote:
| ... YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO HAVE READ ANY OF THE PREVIOUS ISSUES IN ORDER TO PICK UP THE NEW ONES.Trust me on this! And SPREAD THE WORD... |
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I'll be doing my part!
And I have some customers at my shop who will be very excited by the news that "Next Men" is returning!
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Ian M. Palmer
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Gun to their heads, I'll bet most of these wankers could not write an eight page, done in one story. They could delete every instance of the word "splash" in one of their scripts. That'd be the page count taken care of. IMP.
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John Byrne
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Gun to their heads, I'll bet most of these wankers could not write an eight page, done in one story.++ They could delete every instance of the word "splash" in one of their scripts. That'd be the page count taken care of. •• As I have mentioned on more that one occasion, reading those old six and eight page stories with an adult eye and mind, I became aware of how very, very TERSE they are. Talk about fat free! There are, for instance, usually NO transitional scenes. If Superman decides he needs something on Mars, the next panel he is landing on Mars! If what he decides he needs is something that is to be brought back to Earth, often Mars is skipped entirely! He thinks "I need the fonebone device! That's on Mars!" And in the next panel he is RETURNING from Mars with the device!
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David Hunt
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Good Lord. I just read the news. I am very excited about this. Mr. Byrne, I look forward to once again being able to read about those lost refugees from the Greenery. I am also curious to see how the overall “look” and “feel” of the book will compare to what it was back in the 90’s. You have refined your artistic skills since then. I’m sure that path that we take to get the planned endpoint will have changed (new ideas replace and refine old ideas over a decade and a half), but…Damn, I don’t even have the proper technical vocabulary to ask what I want to know except in the most generic and crude of methods: How close to the previous issues look, feel, atmosphere do you expect your art to be?
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Simon Bowland
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Fantastic news!
But please, JB, can you handle your own lettering for this?
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Darren Taylor
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This is great news.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 25 July 2010 at 12:14pm | IP Logged | 11
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I am also curious to see how the overall “look” and “feel” of the book will compare to what it was back in the 90’s.•• Funnily enough. . . When Bill Roberge was here a while back, we were poking thru the flatfiles with my old pages, and I was surprised to discover this one was still there… 
Of all the pages I did on NEXT MEN, this was my favorite. Can't really say why, but as you can see I immediately brought it out and affixed it to the corner of my drawing board, and THIS is the look I will be attempting to recapture for the continuation of the series.
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Rob Ocelot
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Wow. Thanks, JB. This annoucement gave me goosebumps.
I think I'm more excited about possible return of the letters pages (and AFATH) than I am the story. Of course I realize the JBF is technically the modern equivalent of those pages but there was something about reading those JB gripes on real paper with entire months for your words to stew in my brain that made the experience.
(a weird aside: I first picked up 2112 in 1991 a day or two after my father had bypass surgery. Nearly 20 years later, my father had cardioablation surgery this past thursday. How coincidental is THAT?)
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