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Mark Haslett
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| Posted: 03 March 2024 at 5:38pm | IP Logged | 1
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John Byrne’s Wolverine is so special to me that I virtually know every single
panel he appears in by heart.
Reed Richards became, to me , a hero who could have his own book under
JB’s guidance.
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Rebecca Jansen
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| Posted: 03 March 2024 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | 2
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Aunt Petunia!
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Eric Jansen
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She-Hulk!
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Mark McKay
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| Posted: 03 March 2024 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | 4
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Wolverine definitely popped in my head first, followed in a close second behind She-Hulk.
Wolverine was definitely my favorite character by far, during my core comic reading years, fueled by all my infinite re-readings of the Death of Phoenix trade paperback. And She-Hulk? In what world did I think I’d become some big She-Hulk fan? But those Fantastic Four issues, followed by her own series, certainly made that happen.
I consider JB to be as much their creator as the people who originally created them. |
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Jason K Fulton
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Sue Richards
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Paul Wills
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| Posted: 03 March 2024 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | 6
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I've come to realize that John Byrne is really good at writing female characters!
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 03 March 2024 at 10:57pm | IP Logged | 7
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How long a list is too long a list.
Wolverine became a character I was pretty obsessed by under JB.
Galactus
Dr Doom
She-Hulk
Superman
The FF as a whole
JB has this ability to take any character & make them better, but without
throwing the baby out with the bath water. Some stuff he will address,
some, he will just ignore & not reference - which is the best way to do it.
But what he never did, & what I think newer writers could definitely learn
from, was to add in crazy new law, that fundamentally changed the
character, moving them further from what they were, just to make his mark.
If anything, his mark was to make a character MORE of who they were
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Peter Martin
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She-Hulk definitely has to be mentioned.I really liked what JB did with Namor. No one has handled Dr Doom better, though I would hesitate to call it an extrapolation, as it was so faithfully in the mould created by Lee-Kirby. The Invisible Woman was a proper extrapolation (and a brilliant, necessary one).
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Charles Valderrama
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Wolverine is the easy answer.. but to me the "All-New, All-Different" X-Men series meant nothing to me until JB and Terry Austin took on the art chores on the book!
Namor wasn't very interesting to me till JB started spinning his tales.
Also, DOOM Patrol wasn't really on my radar till JB took a stab at the title.
-C! |
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Koroush Ghazi
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If forced to choose a single character, as opposed to a team (Fantastic Four), then I choose Galactus. In my opinion JB transformed Galactus from an often awkwardly-used baddie to a truly fascinating cosmic enigma
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Fred J Chamberlain
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I remember that Superman went to the top of my favorite, by
the end of Man of Steel.
Namor left me with the real-world realization that any
character can be great, with the right writer.
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John Byrne
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As Neal Adams said, there are no bad characters, only bad writers.
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