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        | Mal Gardiner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Love Colossus in panel 2 - just leapt off the page at me for some reason.
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        | Richard Stevens Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Switching back to Earth is a really neat way to convey how BIG that explosion(?) in space is! And it's always great to see the Muir Island crew.
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        | Eric Ladd Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Nice to see Muir island back to full population. I’m sure everyone is curious about the explosion in space.
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        | Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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 |  More Sean and Moira? Yes, please! 
 This scene reminds me of the transformation Banshee went through when he was changed from villain to hero. I recall early Banshee being drawn with an almost impossibly long upper lip and gruesome visage. However, by the time he joined the All New, All Different X-Men, he had become a more traditional superhero handsome.
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        | Jason Ladwig Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          JB, the panel today with the Stratojet in the back ground, did you do the figures first or the background then erase? I cant tell, it so clean.
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        | John Byrne 
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          Figures first.
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        | Mark McKay Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          JB, regarding the stars against a white background. How would you expect those to be handled by the inker or colorist?
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 Edited by Mark McKay on 30 June 2021 at 7:19am
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        | John Byrne 
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          I've never been in the biz (as so many readers have not) so I'm not sure what an editor would/could do.
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 |  ••• This is one of the reasons I grumbled when various fan awards started including a best/favorite editor category. Ask a hundred fans and ninety-nine of them would not be able to define an editor’s function. Is this book good because of the editor or despite him/her?
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        | Michael Arndt Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Echoing what Wallace said.
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 Always a treat to see Sean and Moira. | 
       
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        | Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          In my experience, editors are mostly notable when something goes massively wrong--a book ships late, there are huge and obvious typos in the lettering or balloon tails lead to the wrong character, the coloring is off, a double-page spread is split up wrong or the pacing is thrown off by poorly placed ads... the list goes on.
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 If an editor does a good job, it should be virtually invisible. 
 Just an opinion. (By a one-time comic book editor.) | 
       
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        | John Byrne 
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          Editors, letterers and colorists, and to a slightly lesser extent inkers, should be “invisible”.
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 |  Ideally, of course, no part of the package should stand out more than the rest. All should be serving the STORY as a seamless whole. 
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        | Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Agree completely. If one part sticks out like a sore thumb, it's usually for bad reasons--but even "good" reasons aren't always good for the book as a whole.
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