I've always loved these 'blast from the past' sequences from John. It reminds me of John's time travel arcs on JK's 4th World and Blood of the Demon.

Also loved his Elseworlds story of Kal-El during the Revolutionary war.

John handles these stories like none other: his picture perfect renderings of Humanity's History span from the Jurassic age to the far away future. Past sequences all seem so accurate and realistic. My hat to him.

"Also loved his Elseworlds story of Kal-El during the Revolutionary war."

That's a personal favorite of mine too and IIRC JB said in an interview he had that story on his mind for something like 15 years... kinda like what's happening with Next Men! 

JB, my question may look stupid but did you used the recent  "ANGEL/Frankenstein 2" one-shot as a training to inking the pages of Next Men in your original style?

Your inking style has evoluated of course, but I feel a great deal of resemblance in the strokes and the amount of details between the 2 of them.

Just curious... 

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Nope. In fact, I was after something different from NEXT MEN in AF2, as I had been in AF1. In those issues I wanted the inks to be very rough and think, hopefully evoking something not unlike a woodcut.

Hello,

To anyone that might be kind enough to answer these questions after recently rereading JBNM 30:

1. In JBNM 27 Ducummen forms an "uneasy alliance" with Hilltop. Then Hilltop kills him and we never know why Control had associated himself with Hilltop in the first place. Control had "kidnapped" the Next Men for his own agenda in the earliest story arc right? Why the sudden change?

2. Since Jack isn't abducted and thrown thru time in JBNM 30 does it mean we'll never see him again? According to Kirkland he becomes "Priest John Kavanagh" and reveals the existence of the NM in the history books not until the year 2032.

3. If Van Damme has always been MIV for the "past 50 years" (I quote) does it mean his origin as a recent android created by Prof Kenniston is a lie? Were all the flashback sequences about his creation a lie?

Thanks to anyone who'd like to enlighten me.

Really hard waiting for the new JBNM issue...

Since Jack isn't abducted and thrown thru time in JBNM 30 does it mean we'll never see him again?

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You've not been seeing some of JB's sneak peeks have you?