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John Byrne

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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 8:34am | IP Logged | 1  

MODOK!

Just for funzies.

Tho I do find myself wondering how that rocket blast propulsion system of his works. Since I've seen plenty of people having conversations around him in normal tones of voice, I felt I was safe having him "sneak up" on Kitty. But how loud is that thing?

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Andrew Bitner
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 8:46am | IP Logged | 2  

AWESOME!!
And... maybe the air jets on his chair are just a loud whisper?
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Eric Ladd
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:11am | IP Logged | 3  

15 pages and what I can only assume is a splash on page 16! My guess is there is a whisper mode that was used to get close and then he turned on the louder, quicker jets to close that last 10-15 feet and surprise Kitty.
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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:16am | IP Logged | 4  

Catching up on the fun.... aside from the obvious enjoyment of seeing these X-MEN pages and the story unfold, I'm LOVING the page layouts here, JB!!

(Wondering how you decide which angled panels you want to play with from page to page!!)

-C!
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John Byrne

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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:18am | IP Logged | 5  

Wondering how you decide which angled panels you want to play with from page to page!!

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Mostly they are dictated by the flow of the action. Consider the previous Kitty page. Since most of the action is vertical, I went for vertical panels, shifting only in the last couple to mirror Kitty's disorientation.

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Wilson Mui
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:32am | IP Logged | 6  

MODOK needs to update his chair technology!

(I haven't been to the comic book store in years. This
book would get me back there.)
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Valmor J. Pedretti
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:35am | IP Logged | 7  

The horror on Kitty's face. My heart raced a bit on that panel.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:49am | IP Logged | 8  

MODOK needs to update his chair technology!

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I saw a version of MODOK with mechanical spider legs, which I thought was pretty cool. Not sure of the vintage, tho.

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Ryan Maxwell
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:52am | IP Logged | 9  

Well, there’s an unforeseen twist!  I love the shot of Kitty phasing through the grate!
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Adam Schulman
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:56am | IP Logged | 10  

That was certainly unexpected. I don't recall the X-Men ever fighting MODOK before. Or even A.I.M., for that matter. 

Anyway, if there exists science capable of creating MODOK, there's science capable of creating very quiet jet blasts, I sez. 
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John Byrne

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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 9:59am | IP Logged | 11  

Hm. Just thought of something.

One of my background ideas for Kitty was that when she was in "phase" mode, she did not need to breathe. I drew the previous page with that in mind. But it occurs to me, Chris and I didn't do anything with this, and I don't think Chris used it after I left.

Or did he?

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Darren Taylor
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Posted: 23 July 2018 at 10:04am | IP Logged | 12  

Viewing these wonderful pages really does feel like getting the X-Men back!

Brilliant. 

The little kid me is having the time of his life JB. Many thanks.

-D 
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