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John Byrne
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Well I don't know when people stopped reading the X-Men but this was a bit addressed during Ed Brubaker's stay in the Uncanny X-Men (around 2006-7) with the character of Korvus Rook'Shir (although I found the thing with the Blade of the Phoenix a bit strange).••• I am SO tired of your relentless determination to NOT GET IT, Manuel.
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Wallace Sellars
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JB, if this were a book you were writing for someone else to draw, what
level of detail would you provide the artist?
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John Byrne
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Depends on the artist. I try to utilize the particular talents a hand. JRjr, for instance, I gave bare bones instructions and just turned him loose!
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Scott Sackett
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JB, I have a technical question about something I've noticed in your pencils.
Your pencils have a variance in their line weights and I'm curious how you did that?
For example, in the most recent page in the last panel, Gladiator's forearms have a heavier line around part of them and it appears to be a single pencil stroke?
Thanks for sharing this, your art has inspired me for 40+ years.
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John Byrne
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Your pencils have a variance in their line weights and I'm curious how you did that?•• "Weight" is the key word. A lot is accomplished simply by varying pressure. Also, I rotate my pencil point from nearly vertical to nearly horizontal. +++++ Gladiator's forearms have a heavier line around part of them and it appears to be a single pencil stroke? •• Some artists -- Curt Swan, Carmine Infantino, Dave Cockrum--apply what I call the Thousand Line approach. They'd go back and forth over the same line "a thousand times" fattening it up. Most often this can be seen in their pencils. I do the same, except my "thousand lines" tend to end up closely packed on top of each other. So the trick to drawing a line thicker than the pencil is to draw it more than once!
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Wallace Sellars
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It takes bravery to see Gladiator fall, and still charge into battle against the foe who bested him.
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Philippe Pinoli
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What a display of power ! Gladiator/Superman
litteraly swated, IG's Giant Man
beheaded/"spoked"...remaining imperial guard laid
waste...in a few panels. Wow.
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John Byrne
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BTW, a notification for those who haven't realized already:This issue will end on Friday, and because of my "first Monday" police the next will not begin until July 6th.* ___________________ * Nothing even remotely significant about that date!
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John Byrne
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…IG's Giant Man…•• Colossal Boy, actually!
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Vinny Valenti
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Mark Haslett wrote:
| Lilandra sees one of her friends killed by Dark Phoenix and recognizes the shape as something she and her advisors had feared, she says, since Phoenix appeared. |
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The panel in question, for the folks at home:
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Andrew Bitner
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...wow
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John Byrne
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That panel Vinny posted is a typical example of Chris writing BIGGER than the scene—something which accidentally proved useful a few years later.
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