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John Byrne
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Posted: 29 July 2026 at 12:56pm \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

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A classic example of people speaking as if from knowledge, when they have it not.

Some of them seem not even to have read the original story!

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 29 July 2026 at 2:28pm \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

I guess 4 out of 5 is more than I was expecting.

This gives me a chance to ask, someone else on Facebook wondered if Joe MacTaggert was influenced by someone famous. I've wondered the same thing, since there seemed to be something slightly different about the way you drew his intro panel:

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Posted: 29 July 2026 at 2:49pm \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Wrong color eyes, etc., but there is just a little young Lorne Greene-ish about him, maybe...

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Posted: 29 July 2026 at 3:00pm \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

Looks like Lorne Greene might have influenced me, tho not consciously.

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Posted: 29 July 2026 at 5:25pm \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

Incidentally, at no time have I said Ernest Borgnine was my model for Shaw. That was Robert Shaw from the get-go. CC named the character, but did not participate in choosing his likeness.

(I didn’t use reference for any of them. Looking back, I am surprised at how close I got with all but Sutherland.)

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Posted: 29 July 2026 at 6:14pm \| IP Logged \| 6	post reply

"I didn’t use reference for any of them."

Wow, now THAT I didn't know. They were so close that I just assumed that you did.

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Posted: 29 July 2026 at 6:17pm \| IP Logged \| 7	post reply

Oddly enough, I am often better with likenesses when I work strictly out of my head.

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