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Brennan Voboril
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Richard Stevens
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Couldn't possibly just color Wolverine's can to look like a Coke. That would be too easy!
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Philippe Negrin
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Isn't Coke even more dangerous than a beer ?
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Peter Martin
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Now it looks like he's holding a dead-man's-switch. Even more dangerous than a can of Molson's.
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Trevor Krysak
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Since this discussion is focused on stories from around that time I have a bit of a What if question for you, JB.
If for some reason Chris Claremont had decided to leave the X-Men instead of you back in the day and an offer had been made for you to be be the writer/artist on the series would you have stuck with the series? Or was Fantastic Four just inevitable at that point?
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John Byrne
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I’d reached a point such that, because of what I felt was Chris’ mishandling of the characters, and readers accepting that mishandling, I no longer felt I could work with them. Clearly that is no longer the case.
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Greg Kirkman
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While I understand that a lot of people were clearly embittered by JB’s departure from X-MEN, I think his FANTASTIC FOUR run was a more than fair trade. Better to have the latter book get a really great shot in the arm than for JB to toil away unhappily on the former book for a few more years.
And, in my heart of hearts, I prefer the FF run to the X-MEN run!
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Peter Martin
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Yeah, the FF was my fave; it felt like such a good fit. I was too young to have any emotional baggage from UXM, as I missed the whole of JB's run (being a whelp and all).
That said, these pages JB has posted here do give me a 'finally back home' kind of feel. Suddenly the characters look and feel spot on after years in the wilderness.
Edited by Peter Martin on 22 November 2018 at 10:38pm
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Trevor Krysak
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John Byrne wrote:
| I’d reached a point such that, because of what I felt was Chris’ mishandling of the characters, and readers accepting that mishandling, I no longer felt I could work with them.
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Clearly. It's good to see you find some of the old enthusiasm for them. Or a new enthusiasm. Either way the pencils look great.
Thanks for the answer.
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John Byrne
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...‘finally back home’...••• That really is how it feels. Strange, after all these years, but there it is!
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Mike Baswell
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Speaking of after all these years, on the day after Thanksgiving 1980, my Dad and I went to get haircuts together and on the way, I convinced him to stop at the Majik Market on 4th Ave. in Bessemer, AL. where we lived so I could look for comics to read that weekend, and I picked this up, not knowing at the time it was JB's last issue. Now, 38 years later, I get the same thrill as I did then seeing you working with these characters again. Thank you sir!
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Nathan Greno
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Marvel just announced a new series of trade paperbacks collecting the most popular X-Men events from across the team's more than 50 years of history.
The Dark Phoenix Saga is one of the upcoming volumes...
(Boy, that's an awkward cover -- maybe it's not final)
JB's X-Men run is constantly being reprinted... I'll be incredibly surprised if Marvel passes on publishing this new Elsewhen series.
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