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Dean Munday
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| Posted: 21 October 2019 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | 1
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As wonderful as this experience is, it is criminal that these stories are not being formally published - inked & coloured. Not just for we eager, fortunate 'virtual-readers' - but also for an audience out there that is being denied them.
I gather the original notion was to reprint Phoenix: The Untold Story as Issue Zero and go from there. I've just re-read that same tale. As powerful and dramatic as Jean's 'death' was when #137 was first read back in 1980, its impact has been severely diluted with her eventual resurrection and everything since. There used to be a joke about Marvel - "nobody ever stays dead - except Bucky" - and even that punchline is now denied us.
The 'original' ending to the Dark Phoenix saga - which had Jean 'adjusted' by the Shi'ar - and how the team deals with the consequences - is a far more interesting premise. The final panel of the penultimate page of 'The Untold Story' sets this up suberbly. The hatred on Scott's face is tangible. This 'series' is a God-send.
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Michael Genitempo
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| Posted: 21 October 2019 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | 2
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I agree - how Jean would deal with it has been on my mind for a while. In fact, even how Charles and Lilandra would be together is interesting too...Can’t be back to being a couple like nothing happened (or could it)?
Not knocking the published version which had tremendous impact of course, but it is interesting if it had gone this way too...
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Wallace Sellars
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 5:42am | IP Logged | 3
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As strange as it may seem, this could be the best work of JB's career!
Next to JBNM, that is. ;-)
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Michael Genitempo
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 6:13am | IP Logged | 4
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His FF work was pretty darned awesome too!
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James Woodcock
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 8:17am | IP Logged | 5
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Oh Lord, is this Proteus and not Magneto?
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 8:19am | IP Logged | 6
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Oh Lord, is this Proteus and not Magneto?•• Geez, I hope not! That will screw up everything I have planned!
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Tim O Neill
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 8:39am | IP Logged | 7
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Today's last panel with Storm and Moira has a lot of impact
- you know just where to put your "camera," JB!
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 8:41am | IP Logged | 8
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Thanks for noticing, Tim. When I'm laying out a panel I tend to do a quick 360º around the center point, making sure the angle I choose is best for both clarity and "drama".
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 8:59am | IP Logged | 9
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But it was the Sentinels!!!
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Steven McCauley
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 9:32am | IP Logged | 10
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JB, is that a shadowy figure in the foreground of panel 3? If so, I think I know who it is.
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Larry Gil
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 10:15am | IP Logged | 11
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Here's hoping we get to see Unus and Mimic in this run:)
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 22 October 2019 at 10:29am | IP Logged | 12
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Well, not the Mimic. He’s too hard to draw properly without him looking goofy!
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