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Posted: 25 October 2018 at 2:36pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

It is! It’s modeled after the one I use every time I take the train into NYC. Something I could not have imagined doing when I lived in Calgary!
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Man! Just the subtle detail of the weeds growing through the tracks - a lot of artists wouldn't think of that...
and the rest...well, anyone who says your artwork is not at its highest level is nutz.
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I've always liked the quiet scenes you draw JB: those of houses, furniture, drapery, etc.  They're just gorgeous. 
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Beautiful pages, JB! The quality of the drawing on the faces, particularly on that second page, and the backgrounds... it's all sky high.

I want to read this story.
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Holy Moley! More stuff. Who are those people? Why are they there? Ack!

Agree with the station. Dead on suburban station. The catenary engineer I work with would approve!

I really like the van. Makes more sense than a limo.
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Laren Farmer
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Love it. 
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Darren Taylor
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Wow! Wonderful work.
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I've always liked the quiet scenes you draw JB: those of houses, furniture, drapery, etc. They're just gorgeous.

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For which, much thanks!

When I was starting out, I knew I would never haver the power of Jack Kirby, or the quirkinesses of Steve Ditko, or the elegance of Joe Kubert, the photorealism of Neal Adams—but I had to have something to call my own.

I’m a masochist, so I chose one of the hardest things to pull off in comics: subtleties. The turn of a wrist. A raised eyebrow. And the bits of business that build backgrounds most readers won’t even notice, but create verisimilitude.

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Brennan Voboril
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Well you nailed it because I can go over much of your later work - it was there in the beginning but not to the level of what you later became - and see those subtleties done like few others have.  

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After all these years, it's kinda mind-blowing to see a continuation of this... 

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Luke Smyth
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Beautiful pencils and quite a tease.

Speaking of “1980”, do you have any recollection of the X-Men Colour
album you were going to do with Chris and Terry around the time of
issue 137?
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After all these years, it's kinda mind-blowing to see a continuation of this... 

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Marvel did follow up on it, years later. Not too well, as I recall.

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