Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login
Fan Fic
Byrne Robotics > Fan Fic << Prev Page of 32 Next >>
Topic: X-MEN.ELSEWHEN.06--Comments Post ReplyPost New Topic
Author
Message
Wallace Sellars
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 01 May 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 17705
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 8:02am | IP Logged | 1 post reply

I recently reread the first thirty-one issues of JOHN BYRNE'S NEXT MEN, and still consider that series to be our host's best work; however, X-MEN ELSEWHEN is making JBNM's position at the top miiighty precarious.

And when you consider the way XME is being presented here in daily single-page installments sans colors and inks... That's pretty amazing!
Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Wallace Sellars
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 01 May 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 17705
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 8:07am | IP Logged | 2 post reply

Let me clarify... JB's drawing is at an all-time high here. Everything from the backgrounds to body language to clothing and drapery to faces to scene framing to shading has risen a notch (or two or three)!
Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Wallace Sellars
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 01 May 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 17705
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 8:10am | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Make no mistake; I'm enjoying the writing as well. It's rising to the level of what I consider to be JB's greatest single issue book, BATMAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA!

*Please excuse the choppy posts.
Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Darren Ashmore
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 30 April 2004
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 964
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 8:19am | IP Logged | 4 post reply

Loving this.  The entire project is exceptional and as someone who has all but given up monthly comics this has me genuinely excited.  The X jet on today's page is quite spectacular, and I'm thrilled that the real Cyclops is back. The respect he shows for Professor X is in stark contrast to the bolshy, frankly unpleasant Scott seen in recent, non-Elsewhen, continuity.
Back to Top profile | search
 
Brian Miller
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 28 July 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 31325
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 8:22am | IP Logged | 5 post reply

JB's drawing is at an all-time high here. Everything from the backgrounds to body language to clothing and drapery to faces to scene framing to shading has risen a notch (or two or three)!

********

You ain’t wrong, friend. 
Back to Top profile | search
 
John Byrne
Avatar
Grumpy Old Guy

Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 133693
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 6 post reply

…I'm thrilled that the real Cyclops is back. The respect he shows for Professor X is in stark contrast to the bolshy, frankly unpleasant Scott seen in recent, non-Elsewhen, continuity.

••

It's all "bad boys" writing and reading comics, these days. Respect for authority makes a character weak. And actually BEING an authority figure, well, that's just intolerable.

Back to Top profile | search
 
Matt Hawes
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 April 2004
Location: United States
Posts: 16513
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 10:15am | IP Logged | 7 post reply

 Wallace wrote:
...JB's drawing is at an all-time high here...

I agree. I spend some time looking over the details of each page. Great stuff!


Back to Top profile | search | www
 
Richard Palmgren
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 31 May 2009
Location: United States
Posts: 328
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 11:10am | IP Logged | 8 post reply

It's all "bad boys" writing and reading comics, these days. Respect for authority makes a character weak. And actually BEING an authority figure, well, that's just intolerable.
-------------------

Maybe you should've made Wolverine more polite.  Then the domino effect of his popularity on characters of the 80's and 90's would have been hundreds of superheroes saying "please" and "thank you"

(or maybe it was his hairy arms that made him so popular)
Back to Top profile | search
 
John Byrne
Avatar
Grumpy Old Guy

Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 133693
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 11:30am | IP Logged | 9 post reply

Speaking of the new Brotherhood, was it you or Chris who came up with the Nightcrawler connection for Mytique?

•••

All Chris.

(How far did he go with that? At one time he wanted Mystique to be Nightcrawler’s father.)

Back to Top profile | search
 
David Schmidt
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 11 July 2017
Location: France
Posts: 441
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 11:38am | IP Logged | 10 post reply

He didn't get that far.

Recently (well 15 years ago I think) it was revealed Nightcrawler's father is Azazel, a real demon.

So Nightcrawler demon appearance isn't the result of his mutation but of his demon origins...

Brilliant!


Edited by David Schmidt on 14 November 2019 at 11:39am
Back to Top profile | search
 
John Byrne
Avatar
Grumpy Old Guy

Joined: 11 May 2005
Posts: 133693
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 12:20pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply

Chris never did understand what a mutant is—and largely thanks to him, most readers don’t either.
Back to Top profile | search
 
James Johnson
Byrne Robotics Member
Avatar

Joined: 16 March 2009
Location: United States
Posts: 2174
Posted: 14 November 2019 at 12:29pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Constant dealings with space aliens. Consistent dealings with  supernatural beings.

Sounds like Chris was writing the wrong book.


Back to Top profile | search
 

<< Prev Page of 32 Next >>
  Post ReplyPost New Topic
Printable version Printable version

Forum Jump
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot create polls in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

 Active Topics | Member List | Search | Help | Register | Login