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Vinny Valenti
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There was one little bit of dialogue I liked that I assume CC contributed,
during the present-day battle with the Brotherhood:
(paraphrasing)
Colossus (carrying a steel bar): "Wolverine! I have a way to defeat the Blob!"
Wolverine: "Good. I'm in the mood ta defeat someone."
Though it's marred a bit by the excessive verbiage of Wolverine's thought
balloon in the next panel: "It was smart of Petey to use me as a fulcrum
thanks to my Adamantium-laced skeleton", yada yada......
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Tim O Neill
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I think JB's plot and the visuals really make "Days of Future Past". No scripting missteps could sink such an inspired and wonderful comic book story.
Let's look at the same three sequential pages I posted before, but without the captions and dialogue. The storytelling is just amazing:
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Tim O Neill
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Tim O Neill
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I really like the art in B&W - this is from the ESSENTIAL edition:
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Tim O Neill
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That art on the last panel was lost on the first ESSENTIAL edition - did they fix it in later editions?
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Tim O Neill
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The last panel in color....
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Tim O Neill
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John Byrne
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I wasn't fond of color holds. Thought they were a gimmick that was instantly over-used. But as much as I wasn't wild about them, I could not foresee the havok they would unleash in black & white reprints! ARGH!! And ARGH!! again!
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I wasn't fond of color holds. Thought they were a gimmick that was instantly over-used. But as much as I wasn't wild about them, I could not foresee the havok they would unleash in black & white reprints! ARGH!! And ARGH!! again!
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What is a "color hold"? I haven't heard that term before. Is this in reference to the color Kitty panel above? Where the line art is color instead of black?
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I wasn't fond of color holds. Thought they were a gimmick that was instantly over-used. But as much as I wasn't wild about them, I could not foresee the havok they would unleash in black & white reprints! ARGH!! And ARGH!! again! ------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Ah, the fun of the '80's. By and large, as a kid I read comics in black and white reprints in the UK. Those colour holds were so annoying - many was the time that I would look at a panel and wonder 'What am I missing here? There doesn't appear to be anything?' Only when I started buying the colour versions did it all click in to place.
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Tim O'Neill wrote:
| Let's look at the same three pages I posted before, but without the captions and dialogue. This art is just amazing |
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It certainly is! I'm curious, though — where has the unlettered art come from? I thought back then Orz would have lettered directly onto JB's pencils before they went off to Terry for inking…?
(I know it wasn't completely unheard of for lettering to be done on overlays, particularly if the artist was pencilling and inking, but photos of original X-Men art from this period that I've seen all look like they were lettered directly onto the boards.)
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