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Mark Haslett
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JB: Here's a weird one:Looking back thru various Sentinel appearances, all
the way back to their debut, and it seems as if I was the first to draw them
with their mouths open--and with that Doctor Doom like grating inside.
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I know Neal Adams drew a Sentinel with an open mouth, expressing shock
when Larry Trask finally convinces the Judge to use that strange device to
wake up Alex Summers. I don't have an image to post, but I remember the
impact of the Sentinel looking completely freaked out by the Judge's
surprise move. Probably issue #59, iirc.
Edit: I just found the page online, and it revealed two things -- no Doctor
Doom grating, and the Sentinel is scripted to say "Waking up Alex Summers
is no big deal" - but his gaping mouth made me read the image as a
Sentinel in panic. But then, the next page, has the classic moment when the
Sentinel accidentally injures a human and raises the alarm: "Disaster!" he
shouts, open-mouthed - with no grating.
Not sure if this is helpful or not. Was the query about just the open
mouth/grating combination?
Edited by Mark Haslett on 21 November 2018 at 2:31pm
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John Byrne
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There it is! I knew something was buzzing deep in the furrows of the back of my brain!!
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Brennan Voboril
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Richard Stevens
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Couldn't possibly just color Wolverine's can to look like a Coke. That would be too easy!
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Philippe Negrin
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Isn't Coke even more dangerous than a beer ?
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Peter Martin
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Now it looks like he's holding a dead-man's-switch. Even more dangerous than a can of Molson's.
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Trevor Krysak
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Since this discussion is focused on stories from around that time I have a bit of a What if question for you, JB.
If for some reason Chris Claremont had decided to leave the X-Men instead of you back in the day and an offer had been made for you to be be the writer/artist on the series would you have stuck with the series? Or was Fantastic Four just inevitable at that point?
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John Byrne
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I’d reached a point such that, because of what I felt was Chris’ mishandling of the characters, and readers accepting that mishandling, I no longer felt I could work with them. Clearly that is no longer the case.
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Greg Kirkman
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While I understand that a lot of people were clearly embittered by JB’s departure from X-MEN, I think his FANTASTIC FOUR run was a more than fair trade. Better to have the latter book get a really great shot in the arm than for JB to toil away unhappily on the former book for a few more years.
And, in my heart of hearts, I prefer the FF run to the X-MEN run!
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Peter Martin
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Yeah, the FF was my fave; it felt like such a good fit. I was too young to have any emotional baggage from UXM, as I missed the whole of JB's run (being a whelp and all).
That said, these pages JB has posted here do give me a 'finally back home' kind of feel. Suddenly the characters look and feel spot on after years in the wilderness.
Edited by Peter Martin on 22 November 2018 at 10:38pm
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Trevor Krysak
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John Byrne wrote:
| I’d reached a point such that, because of what I felt was Chris’ mishandling of the characters, and readers accepting that mishandling, I no longer felt I could work with them.
Clearly that is no longer the case. |
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Clearly. It's good to see you find some of the old enthusiasm for them. Or a new enthusiasm. Either way the pencils look great.
Thanks for the answer.
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John Byrne
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...‘finally back home’...••• That really is how it feels. Strange, after all these years, but there it is!
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