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John Byrne
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John Byrne
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One would imagine that to draw Fabulous-man smashing a Skrallillion Space frigate into junk would be a tad easier than drawing a busy subway station, mostly due to expectation. The viewer is like to have seen the latter many times and in a great position to judge and perhaps has less hard facts to go on with the former.•• This points also to why the dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK looked so good, while the elephants in JUMANJI didn't. We know what elephants look like!
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Rick Senger
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I really like that subway platform page, too. The variation of camera angles, the placement of shadows, the knowing and sure-handed representation of cars and trains and Prof. X's cool wheelchair. Little touches like the grass growing thru the tracks and the clouds and the metal tower. It's pure Byrne (and a bit of a Michael Golden vibe in the sleek, curvy lines of the cars in the last panel and maybe Prof. X's face in panel two.) Just lovely stuff.
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Peter Martin
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Just focussing on this page again (unsurprisingly, as it's in front of my eyes), there's a whole lot of real world detail that's worth mentioning. Not just the station (the wooden bench and the detail above the waiting room door are very nice), but things like Kitty's handbag and the shoulder-bag that Willie's lugging and the drapery and shadows of Kitty's clothes in the third panel.
Edited by Peter Martin on 18 March 2019 at 9:35am
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John Byrne
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I’m certainly struck by how far my drapery has come since the first time around! Well! It HAS been forty years. >choke<
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John Byrne
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...subway platform... ••• Train, not subway. A suburban commuter line.
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Stéphane Garrelie
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Very nice page.This series as a whole looks great.
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Vinny Valenti
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"Train, not subway. A suburban commuter line." -- I assume that JB knows this since it's somewhat in his neck of the woods, but there really is a Metro North commuter station about 4 miles away from Salem Center, NY | |
(And yes I did once exit I-684 just so I could drive through Salem Center, why do you ask?)
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 18 March 2019 at 1:42pm
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John Byrne
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I honestly didn’t know Salem Center was a real town. It sounds so Claremont! I used New Canaan CT as my main “model”.Maybe I should have used East Erbun NY.
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Wallace Sellars
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It's the "regular" scenes like this one that help make the "super" ones so exciting.
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Vinny Valenti
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I just checked Google Maps and I'm learning for the first time that there really is a 1407 Graymalkin Lane right there - LINK.
Claremont may have been the one to choose the town, though. I recall a reference to the mansion being in Scarsdale during the original team's run.
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Jeffrey Rice
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Love that van!
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