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John Byrne

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Joined: 11 May 2005
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Posted: 25 August 2026 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Found a YouTube video declaring CHAPTER ONE to be this.

Didn’t bother to watch. CO was neither presented nor promoted as a “reboot”. So calling it a failure is starting at a false premise.

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Petter Myhr Ness
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Posted: 25 August 2026 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
I saw that video and went "Huh?"

Has Spider-Man ever been re-booted, by the way? Just a thought that crossed my mind, as I'm not aware of any (and I'm not talking about alternate universes).
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Brian Miller
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Posted: 25 August 2026 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
I thought CO was phenomenal. You really brought the quirky look to Spider-
Man that hadn’t been seen in a long time. That splash (you know the one) is
probably my favorite image ever of the character.
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Brad Wilders
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Posted: 25 August 2026 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Such a failure, they offered you Chapter Two?
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Jason K Fulton
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Posted: 25 August 2026 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
My old-man brain initially read this thread title as "McFarlane Spider-Man Relaunch". Probably need to start wearing my readers more often.
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Charles Valderrama
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Posted: 27 August 2026 at 1:33am | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Caught the silly video…and it brought back fond memories of CHAPTER ONE.

If only we could get an Artist’s Edition. (Isn’t there an anniversary coming up??)

-C!
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John Byrne

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Posted: 27 August 2026 at 11:42am | IP Logged | 7 post reply
It will be interesting to see if Marvel attempts to cash in on the success of ELSEWHEN with a bunch of Byrne books.
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Brandon Carter
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Posted: 27 August 2026 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
I'm still a bit surprised that Marvel hasn't done a John Byrne X-Men Omnibus.  I believe that's the only major Byrne-drawn Marvel work that hasn't been put in a Byrne-specific omnibus.  I expected an omnibus of the original X-Men run plus HIDDEN YEARS in the same volume.  Marvel did HIDDEN YEARS as a separate volume but the original X-MEN run is only available split between UNCANNY X-MEN Omnibus 1 and 2 and not as a separate Byrne volume. 

I really like the format that Abrams used for ELSEWHEN.  In lieu of an Omnibus, I would like to see Marvel collect the Byrne X-Men issues in a similar hardcover series.  I would divide it up in the following way:

Volume 1: UNCANNY X-MEN 108-109, 111-123
Volume 2: UNCANNY X-MEN 124-136 & PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY
Volume 3: UNCANNY X-MEN 137-143

That way, if someone wants to read the ELSEWHEN timeline, they could read Marvel volumes 1 & 2, then ELSEWHEN volumes 1-3.  If someone wanted to read the canonical Marvel timeline,  they could read Marvel volumes 1-3 (ignoring PHOENIX: THE UNTOLD STORY).



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Brian Miller
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Posted: 27 August 2026 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply
By splitting it up, tho, Marvel can sell TWO Omnibus volumes instead of just
one.
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Peter Hicks
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Posted: 27 August 2026 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
“ It will be interesting to see if Marvel attempts to cash in on the success of ELSEWHEN with a bunch of Byrne books.”
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Given how very many of your books both Marvel and DC reprint on an ongoing basis, I would be hard pressed to detect if there was an extra push.  BTW, you had a double page spread in last month’s Fantastic Four 65th anniversary issue, so check your mail for that little cheque.
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Doug Centers
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Posted: 28 August 2026 at 1:25pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply
Brandon, I would throw in Iron Fist #15 into that first volume of yours.
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Tim O Neill
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Posted: 28 August 2026 at 8:19pm | IP Logged | 12 post reply

Brian M: "By splitting it up, tho, Marvel can sell TWO
Omnibus volumes instead of just one."


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I totally agree - and Marvel has been consistent for many
years in ensuring that Death of Phoenix and Days of Future
Past are rarely published together. I bought those off the
newstand and they were released so close that they should
be included together, but they are both so iconic that
Marvel splits them up to get more cash out of us fans.

I think they only time they have been in the same edition
is ESSENTIAL X-MEN 2.
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