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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

11" x 17" imaginary "What If" cover, the subject is: "What If Magneto Formed the X-Men?" It is based on an interview you gave in The Art of John Byrne and included preliminary sketches of what some of the characters would look like in this alternate reality:

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The customer would like a cover logo similar to What If # 1, but incorporating the X-Men logo from your run. Here is the What If # 1 cover reference:

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- Please include the Marvel Banner and Comic Code Stamp as in the following commission:

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There is no corner box illo for this one, but please do include the price, title, and issue number as shown on the original What If # 1 cover. (The issue number is up to you)

Characters are the ones you mentioned in the interview:

--Cyclops
--Angel (or Archangel)
--Beast
--Marvel Girl (Psyke)
--Iceman
--Scarlet Witch
--Quicksilver
--Magneto

(These characters would look somewhat different than their traditional appearances, as evidenced by the preliminary sketches.)

The background choice is up to you.

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Matthew Wilkie
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 1:56pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Very nice indeed, sir.  I want to buy this comic!  And love the corner box - I miss them.

 

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Aaron Smith
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Wow! The changes in appearance are great, especially the ice harpoon! The objects in the wreckage hint at a great story.  
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Michael Todd
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:00pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Why can't comic books like this still exist?
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Steve Gumm
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:10pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply

That is incredible!

WOW!
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Thom Price
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply

I want this comic book!
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply

One word: cool!
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Robbie Parry
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:23pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply

Very good, Mr. Byrne. As always, like the expressions and emotion coming from the eyes!
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Brett Stuart
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply

Wow!  Too cool.  I love Angel's flaming sword and Iron Man's helmet lying in the rubble.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply

It was most interesting to gaze back in time, to when those sketchbook drawings were done. I don't remember the exact year -- not sure if I was actually assigned to the X-Book yet (tho the crappy anatomy suggests not), but this was most definitely before several hundred tons of nonsense got shoveled into the characters' backstories. Most definitely the unapologetically EVIL Magneto here, for instance. Not a "freedom fighter", unless it's strictly his OWN freedom he's fighting for.

The basic story was simple enough. The accident that crippled Xavier in the "real" timeline KILLED him in this one, so our kids were on their own when Magneto found them, and, pretending to be on the straight and narrow, lured them into his clutches. Then, as the debris suggests, having "turned" the team he unleashed them on the FF and Avengers, and WON. And this happened before FF 13, so that fateful meeting on the Moon did not take place, and watching the Earth turn into a mutant dictatorship, the Watcher sort of lost interest, and eventually left to seek other worlds to observe.

Which means he wasn't around when, on the last page, the SIlver Surfer shows up. . .

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Thom Price
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Stop being a story-tease!
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Clint Ludwick
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Posted: 19 January 2013 at 3:00pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

That would have been a hell of a What If story!
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