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John Byrne
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A warning, btw! Since I gave you two pages at the start of this "issue", tomorrow's installment will be the last for the week, until Monday.
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Wallace Sellars
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I dig that eye-catching bright burst in the second panel...
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Philippe Pinoli
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ARE U KIDDING ME JB ? This ride is incredible, if I
didn't knew these pages were drawn weeks ago, I
would swear you are making fools of us all every
single day with our useless speculations...you are
reallly good at what you do...the GOAT as a matter
of fact.
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Philippe Pinoli
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Paging Jim Warden : I need this page !!!
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John Byrne
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…you are reallly good at what you do...the GOAT as a matter of fact.•• NEVER gonna get used to that term!!! Ba-ah-ah-ah. . . . .
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 29 July 2020 at 7:03am | IP Logged | 6
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Whenever I have drawn the Blue Area of the Moon, I have found myself flashing back to the junior version of myself who bought FANTASTIC FOUR 13 off the rack--with great trepidation! The villain, it was announced in the previous issue, was to be the Red Ghost, and ghosts scared the willies out of me. And why was he red? Was it blood??Something of a relief when he turned out to be the Commie Who Walks Thru Walls. Something else drifts thru my brain when I visit the Blue Area. though. As when I visit the Savage Land. Or Attilan. Or Atlantis. Places of mystery and intrigue--that HAD TO BE EXPLAINED. Slowly but steadily, as the fans-turned-pro took over more and more, the mysteries were chipped away. And not, it should be added, replaced with anything BETTER. Explaining how the Blue Area could exist, or how the Savage Land could exist--well, that's just no FUN!!! And it falls very much under the heading of giving the fans what they THINK they want.
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Chris Harvey
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Mind blown....
Cyclops: This isn’t how it was!
Rest of us: Yeah, it was....
Can’t wait to see where you take us from here!
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David Allen Perrin
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MAYBE...this IS what happened! (?)
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Steven Queen
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| Posted: 29 July 2020 at 7:32am | IP Logged | 9
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Kurt Vonnegut lectured at my university once in the early 90's. He said take that first chapter about your villain...the one that explains his horrible childhood, and how he ended up this way...and toss it in the trash. He's just bad---and your readers will just be thrilled that he is.
When you draw...don't you rely in some small part for the viewer's brain to trick itself into seeing a 3D object?
I think it's the similar with the mysterious corners of fictional worlds---it's better they remain in the dark, un-quantified, because our imaginations will then fill them with the wildest things we can conceive.
For that same reason, I find I often prefer the beginnings or stories to their ends. It takes a very, very skilled hand to finish a story is a way that pulls all the elements together without diminishing them (or expectations) from their wild half-formed beginings.
You've bravely chosen a difficult line of work, Mr. Byrne.
(So far, so good!)
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John Byrne
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You've bravely chosen a difficult line of work, Mr. Byrne. •• The hardest part is writing in the middle. Too many writers seem to forget their job is not to END the story. (Oo! When I find I have run out of things to do in ELSEWHEN, should I. . . END the story?)
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Steven Queen
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Chris Harvey wrote:
Rest of us: Yeah, it was....
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Caught me off guard too---look again, more closely.
That's not Phoenix getting ray-zapped...it's Marvel Girl getting torched.
Edited by Steven Queen on 29 July 2020 at 7:45am
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Michael Genitempo
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After all these years seeing Jean die somehow still hurts... that's one brutal panel...
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