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Wallace Sellars
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I recently reread the first thirty-one issues of JOHN BYRNE'S NEXT MEN, and still consider that series to be our host's best work; however, X-MEN ELSEWHEN is making JBNM's position at the top miiighty precarious.
And when you consider the way XME is being presented here in daily single-page installments sans colors and inks... That's pretty amazing!
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Wallace Sellars
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Let me clarify... JB's drawing is at an all-time high here. Everything from the backgrounds to body language to clothing and drapery to faces to scene framing to shading has risen a notch (or two or three)!
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Wallace Sellars
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Make no mistake; I'm enjoying the writing as well. It's rising to the level of what I consider to be JB's greatest single issue book, BATMAN & CAPTAIN AMERICA!
*Please excuse the choppy posts.
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Darren Ashmore
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Loving this. The entire project is exceptional and as someone who has all but given up monthly comics this has me genuinely excited. The X jet on today's page is quite spectacular, and I'm thrilled that the real Cyclops is back. The respect he shows for Professor X is in stark contrast to the bolshy, frankly unpleasant Scott seen in recent, non-Elsewhen, continuity.
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Brian Miller
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JB's drawing is at an all-time high here. Everything from the backgrounds to body language to clothing and drapery to faces to scene framing to shading has risen a notch (or two or three)!
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You ain’t wrong, friend.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 14 November 2019 at 8:42am | IP Logged | 6
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…I'm thrilled that the real Cyclops is back. The respect he shows for Professor X is in stark contrast to the bolshy, frankly unpleasant Scott seen in recent, non-Elsewhen, continuity.•• It's all "bad boys" writing and reading comics, these days. Respect for authority makes a character weak. And actually BEING an authority figure, well, that's just intolerable.
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Wallace wrote:
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I agree. I spend some time looking over the details of each page. Great stuff!
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Richard Palmgren
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It's all "bad boys" writing and reading comics, these days. Respect for authority makes a character weak. And actually BEING an authority figure, well, that's just intolerable.-------------------
Maybe you should've made Wolverine more polite. Then the domino effect of his popularity on characters of the 80's and 90's would have been hundreds of superheroes saying "please" and "thank you"
(or maybe it was his hairy arms that made him so popular)
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John Byrne
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Speaking of the new Brotherhood, was it you or Chris who came up with the Nightcrawler connection for Mytique?••• All Chris. (How far did he go with that? At one time he wanted Mystique to be Nightcrawler’s father.)
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David Schmidt
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He didn't get that far.
Recently (well 15 years ago I think) it was revealed Nightcrawler's father is Azazel, a real demon.
So Nightcrawler demon appearance isn't the result of his mutation but of his demon origins...
Brilliant!
Edited by David Schmidt on 14 November 2019 at 11:39am
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Chris never did understand what a mutant is—and largely thanks to him, most readers don’t either.
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Constant dealings with space aliens. Consistent dealings with supernatural beings.
Sounds like Chris was writing the wrong book.
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