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John Byrne
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I wonder how many of you know the story behind Jahf and Modt? Or, Modt and Jahf. I jotted those names in the borders of the pages, and a few days after I sent them in was chatting with Chris. He said the names, and I chuckled. “You used them?” “What?” “Reverse the order.” “Modt and Jahf.” Pause. “D’oh!” A few months later he tried his own variation with the robots Colossus fought on the Moon.
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Matt Hawes
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Sadly, I doubt many modern comic book readers would get a reference like that. I am purposefully avoiding mentioning the reference in case anyone on the thread is still trying to figure out what those names are based on.
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Eric Ladd
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Matt, very few modern readers would recognize the reference to these guys. I barely got it many moons ago! =)
Edited by Eric Ladd on 12 March 2019 at 12:35pm
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Philippe Negrin
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Sorry being foreign and everything (and maybe too dumb), I don't get the joke. Could a kind soul explain ?
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Rebecca Jansen
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Ha, I'll admit it, I didn't notice that before!:^)
First daily newspaper strip if I remember correctly. One of our local papers ran it in the '70s though I probably preferred Broom Hilda and Hagar at that age. Maybe someone who knows how to do the spoilers thing can post it?
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Matt Hawes
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Philippe, the names “Modt and Jahf” was a pun on the names "Mutt and Jeff," which was a popular long-running comic strip that began early in the 20th century as a newspaper strip and later in comic books and cartoons.
Here is a cover from DC comics' comic book series based on the characters:
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Robbie Moubert
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Mutt 'n' Jeff was adopted as cockney rhyming slang for being deaf although it's usually shortened to just "mutton".
"What did you say? I think I'm a going a bit mutton!"
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 12 March 2019 at 7:36pm
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Philippe Negrin
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Wow. Thank you for the answers. I could never have guessed that reference !
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 13 March 2019 at 8:24am | IP Logged | 9
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Drawing some pages with Henry Peter Gyrich on them, I got to wondering how much the character had been screwed u—I mean changed since the last time I had anything to do with him. Not a lot, it seems—tho I did find him listed as created by George Perez and Jim Shooter. Nope. It’s not exactly a gold star on my resume, but I drew him first.
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Eric Sofer
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Mr. Byrne, I like your Gyrich best, as well. All your character.
If Jahf and Modt were the first two guardians, I wonder who the next two could have been? Fahcks and C'roh?
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Tim O Neill
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Gyrich!!
And I had no idea about the origin of Jahf and Modt - that’s awesome!
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Peter Martin
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Must have been a long while since you last drew Gyrich.
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