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John Byrne

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Joined: 11 May 2005
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Posted: 08 June 2018 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
There was a LOT of "pie-in-the-sky" thinking back then. Part of what wrecked the industry.
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Jeff Scott
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Posted: 08 June 2018 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I hate to say this, but...I bought the Futurians GN when it was released and was not impressed despite the fact it had a rather cool cover.  Today I just don't recall much about it.
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James Woodcock
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Posted: 08 June 2018 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
The art was beautiful. Still have my copies
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Eric Jansen
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Posted: 08 June 2018 at 7:03pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I think Lodestone was betting everything on its THUNDER AGENTS revival and their thinking that the characters had fallen into the public domain.  When John Carbonaro sued and won, it didn't leave them with much, and so FUTURIANS was a victim of a totally unrelated situation.  (And then Carbonaro was never able to do much with TA!  Too bad he and Lodestone/Deluxe Comics couldn't have made some sort of deal.)

It's interesting that the three companies that I (as a fan, and one that didn't even try hard to be "in the know") knew that promised creators extra-good pay--Atlas/Seaboard in the 70's, Lodestone/Deluxe in the 80's, and CrossGen in the 90's--all fell of their own weight.  I guess the lesson is if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 08 June 2018 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
The good thing about Atlas -- I was just breaking in at the time -- was that they offered much higher page rates than the Big Two, and Marvel and DC had to match them, or risk losing talent.
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