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Peter Martin
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I also enjoyed the cookie jar line.
Time in comics is a curious thing when you stop to analyse it. A panel seems to be a single instant, but of course it is not (or rarely). That several people can talk to each other in a single panel shows the passage of time and that the duration, in such a case, must be at least several seconds. The BAMF cloud drifting forward is another example of this, albeit rarer/more unusual. And it definitely adds a little something, doesn't it?
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John Byrne
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Panels are like snapshots of the action. Generally—tho not always— there is implied action before and often after the moment shown.
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John Byrne
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So much goodness in these pages in both the art and the storytelling. It is sad that Marvel as presently configured could not find a way to publish this. I know I am far from the target audience but come on... this is a clearly worthy successor to those seminal X-Men comics of the late 70s and early 80s that became a measuring stick for all the team comics that followed. I'm happy to be able to see this in any form but there is something seriously wrong (or cowardly) at the top for allowing whatever concerns there were over continuity, timing, personal politics or something equally asinine to trump the sheer fun and value of these pages. Marvel's reticence only underlines why I no longer buy their comics despite being someone who bought thousands over several decades. I would be thrilled to find something to enjoy by Marvel now but it is more apparent than ever that the company I knew and loved for so long is gone and not coming back.••• Once again (and again and again, I expect) not publishing this at/thru Marvel was MY decision, not theirs.
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David Allen Perrin
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It’s being ‘published’ now...so I’m happy.
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Matt Hawes
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I like the way you handled the double page spread, JB. This way, we can see the whole picture as intended, and still have the opportunity to see the details up close. My favorite panel on that page is Colossus lifting up from the lava.
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Mark McKay
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JB, can you explain any more about Kitty’s powers?
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John Byrne
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As I conceived them, Kitty’s powers allow her atoms to pass between the atoms of other solid objects. She doesn’t “swim” thru matter, as it has mostly been incorrectly portrayed. The other matter doesn’t “flow” around her like water. “Solid” matter is really mostly empty space. The illusion of a solid surface is created by the electromagnetic attraction between the aloms. Kitty’s power allows her to manipulate that attraction. It is, of course, something she does unconsciously, as seen in this story. (MODOK cannot break out of the wall. He IS the wall.)
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Darren Taylor
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Wow. Just---wow! Brilliant double pager.
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BrendanT Deneen
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That shot of Piotr emerging from the rubble is quintessential Colossus!
Edited by BrendanT Deneen on 30 June 2019 at 8:10am
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Michael Penn
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If it did, JB, would you draw what she was passing through as distorted, the matter of the thing/person displaced by her matter?
(Seems like a "flowing/swimming" power would destroy/kill what she passed through, nu?)
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Samuel P. Barden
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Kitty cracks me up.
When I was reading the X-Men, Cyclops and Kitty had almost no screen time together and the one moment I remember, Cyclops was saying it was too dangerous for her to help in the mission. It was a little sad that she bonded with everyone on the X-Men except Cyclops, who was reconnecting with his father at the time.
I was surprised when I finally bought X-Men 131, where Cyclops sent Kitty on a dangerous mission to try to free Wolverine.
I'm glad to see this Kitty back and her getting some screen time with Cyclops.
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John Byrne
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The impracticality of Kitty “swimming” thru matter can be demonstrated by the simple expedient of thrusting one’s own hand into a bowl of water. Eureka! That displaced matter has to GO somewhere. One can imagine a wall (as one example) bulging around and in front of her And then conveniently flowing back to its original position?
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