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Scott Barnett
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| Posted: 21 November 2019 at 10:43am | IP Logged | 1
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No complaints from me; this was a nice surprise today!
Just keeps getting better and better!
Have a good weekend, Chief- see you and the X-Men on Monday!
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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 21 November 2019 at 10:48am | IP Logged | 2
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I love when JB's characters get poetical.
Welcome back, Peter and Logan! Haven't seen you guys in YEARS!
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Vinny Valenti
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"I love the way JB draws cockpits! I always go back to the opening of FF 286 my all time favorite book from you know who."
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I see what you did there.....
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Sean Sinclair
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| Posted: 21 November 2019 at 11:29am | IP Logged | 4
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Nathan Greno wrote:
Interesting! That’s actually one of the last issues of JB’s X-Men run I added to my collection (when I was a kid) — because it only focused on Professor X. |
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So you stopped reading right before the first appearance of Alpha Flight, the Proteus Saga, and that whole deal with the Hellfire Club and Dark Phoenix? Dang, buddy, that's poor timing! Did you pick it back up at some point?
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 21 November 2019 at 11:33am | IP Logged | 5
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I think Nathan means he skipped the Xavier issue, not that he stopped there.
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Peter Martin
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I read it the way Sean did originally, but reading it again, I think Nathan means, when he was completing his run by JB, that was the last one he procured.
I think Nathan is the same age as me, and JB's run on UXM ended before I was 6 years old. I'm therefore presuming Nathan did as I did, and picked them up as back issues.
Tim made a really good point: Wolverine works best when Cyclops is around.
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Scott Barnett
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By the way, one of the things I love the most about these two pages (although they're just an example of JB's overall work) is the difference in body language between the characters- the way they each sit in chairs, the way they all ran to the plane. Distinctly different posture and attitude.
Wonderful acting!
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John Byrne
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Jim Salicrup paid me one of my favorite compliments when he said my characters even stand around in character. So, of course, I’ve spend all the years since trying to live up to it.
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Scott Barnett
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It's true. You don't even have to give Wolverine any dialogue- his posture and body language scream, '...yeah, like I give a s#!+...'
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Nathan Greno
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| Posted: 21 November 2019 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | 10
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Sean: So you stopped reading right before the first appearance of Alpha Flight, the Proteus Saga, and that whole deal with the Hellfire Club and Dark Phoenix? Dang, buddy, that's poor timing! Did you pick it back up at some point?
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Sorry I wasn’t clear. My bad.
Peter has it right, I picked up the issues after they came out (I found JB in the early days of his FF run) — and the Prof X issue was one of the last ones I bought. I was first introduced to his X-Men run through that Dark Phoenix TPB that came out in the 80’s.
I did skip Alpha Flight 6 — but I bought the rest off the spinner rack. I ended up getting it eventually.
It’s hard to imagine making those kinds of decisions now... but I really didn’t have much money at the time.
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Rod Collins
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It's nice to see the X-Men interacting with the rest of the Marvel universe, something that was killed off around the time of the first Secret Wars series.
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John Byrne
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As X-Men popularity grew, Chris quickly grew tired of the characters (especially Wolverine) being scooped up by anyone and everyone for appearances in other titles. Titles on which he was given no input. His solution was to extract the characters from any interaction with the rest of the Marvel Universe. Can’t say I blame him.
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