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John Byrne
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 2:56pm | IP Logged | 1
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...as the Earth passed thru a time dilation that took it 40 years into the Future? :)
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Brian Kelly Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | 2
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John, I’ve been enjoying this thread and these X-men pages so, so much! Thank you for sharing these!Since this story is taking place before Kitty got her code name, I’m curious to see if it will be Ariel or Sprite or something completely different!
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Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 4635
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | 3
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Hmm, maybe inking at a smaller size is a really good idea; it looks perfect! Some inking is so bravura it gets in the way of the reading. Fine for a cover or first splash page, but otherwise you stop so long for looking you've then lost the flow of the pages. I think that's what I like so much about some of the artists like Toth, Kubert, Ditko, Caniff was how consistent their approach over a whole, the comic story as a whole flowing entity. I think I lack some words here to explain but maybe others will know anyway. Great flow to these new pages and the inks.
I think sometimes you can deliberately not explain things and let the reader either make up something for themself or consider multiple possibilities.
Unglablich is 'incredible' more or less, not sure why Nightcrawler said it so much, kind of like Chekov in Star Trek was the designated male screamer? The one that got to me more was 'ein geist!'* I can't tell you how few times I've exclaimed 'a ghost' in my life, possibly never. :^|
* The one appropriate time was when he encountered The Beast who he thought died in #113.
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 24 August 2018 at 5:08pm
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John Byrne
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 4:23pm | IP Logged | 4
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Since this story is taking place before Kitty got her code name, I’m curious to see if it will be Ariel or Sprite or something completely different!••• Not sure how you figured that timeline, but if you look back a few pages you'll find Xavier calling her Sprite. LINK
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Brian Kelly Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | 5
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Ah! Thanks! I forgot that I read that scripted page.
My figurings on the timeline were based on your description of this story possibly taking place post the coda of issue #136. Kitty didn’t get her code name until issue #139. I guess I’m mistaken in my understanding.
Love your inks on your pencils, by the way!
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | 6
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Curiously enough, I thought it came out vaguely Austinian, minus the broken lines.
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I was wondering if you were actually going for an Austin look to maintain some sort of continuity in looks from one issue to the next.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | 7
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My figurings on the timeline were based on your description of this story possibly taking place post the coda of issue #136. Kitty didn’t get her code name until issue #139. I guess I’m mistaken in my understanding.••• This story takes place after 137, but it does not precisely align with those issue numbers. The timeline branches rapidly.
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Brian Kelly Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | 8
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This story takes place after 137, but it does not precisely align with those issue numbers. The timeline branches rapidly.
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Gotcha! Thanks for setting me straight! Very exciting!
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Luke Smyth Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | 9
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As expected, just wonderful. I imagine it has been a long time since you have inked over your own pencils that were finished to this degree. I’d be interested to know how you found the experience.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | 10
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It was... odd. I haven't inked my own full pencils, to the best of my recollection, since early days with the Fantastic Four. And my pencils were very different, then!
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Thomas Woods Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | 11
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As I was inking this segment, I found myself ruminating on the now notorious "spanking scene", and got to wondering how Wolverine attempting to spank Kitty is somehow worse than Le Boeuf actually spanking Mattie (with a switch, no less!) in TRUE GRIT.
The world is a messed up place!
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Did you ever have the impression that the Christian right had gone on witch hunts as bad or as successful as the extreme left has been doing over the past few years?
I find it really odd that little things like the spanking cause concern when at the same time pornography is more rampant than ever.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 24 August 2018 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | 12
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"Rampant" pornography is a large part of our shifting sensibilities. We now seek a sexual context for everything, however innocent. Life has become an ongoing manifestation of Joey Tribiani's ability to make anything sound dirty.
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