Danger Unlimited Q for JB
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Topic: Danger Unlimited Q for JB
Posted By: Anthony J Lombardi
Subject: Danger Unlimited Q for JB
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 12:04pm
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JB Your latest commission involving Golgotha is pretty neat. I love the design of the character and think it was a great choice to have him as a Captain American villain. I love the design of the character. I know next to nothing about the character. I so looking up info on him. I saw he was created for Danger Unlimited. I've only read one issue of the series. It is disappointing to discover that there were only four issues. I read the reason there wasn't more was because of the failure of 'Legend' and the 90's crash. Which brings me to my question. Had those events not happen. Do you think DU had the potential to be a lasting and successful series? I can't say for certain if it would have. I like what I read so I'm bias. Also could you tell me how many appearance Golgotha has made in your comics and what comics were they? I'd like to hunt them down.
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Posted By: JohnByrne4
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 12:18pm
| DANGER UNLIMITED was actually killed by the idiotic ordering policies of far too many shops back then. XXX units were ordered of the first issue, XX of the second, X of the third -- all before the first had even been shipped. I realized that those who bought the first issue would not be able to find the third or the fourth. No way to build an audience. |
Posted By: Charles Valderrama
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 12:39pm
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I've mentioned this before but I often wish JB would find a way to relaunch DANGER UNLIMITED thru IDW as a regular series. -C!
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Posted By: Joe Hollon
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 12:45pm
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I've mentioned this before but I often wish JB would find a way to relaunch DANGER UNLIMITED thru IDW as a regular series. ******* I'd settle for a one-shot! Double-sized of course... |
Posted By: Michael Arndt
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 1:02pm
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JB, I have a follow up question: Was there an ending planned to DU (like NEXT MEN)? |
Posted By: JohnByrne4
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 1:32pm
| Not as such. DU was my FF. There would be revelations, and occasional changes of course, but no ending. |
Posted By: Anthony J Lombardi
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 2:18pm
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******* I'd settle for a one-shot! Double-sized of course... ~~~~~~~~~ A one shot wouldn't do it for me.
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Posted By: Sean Watson
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 2:20pm
| Same here!!!!! |
Posted By: Philippe Negrin
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 3:30pm
| Totally ok for a new run of four episodes... |
Posted By: Doug Centers
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 5:33pm
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I had discovered DU about a year ago, and soooo loved the small sampling. If there was ever the potential for one those great JB runs it was right there." Damn you direct sales, damn you all to hell!"
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Posted By: Samuel P. Barden
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 6:15pm
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I had to hunt for issue #3, despite being at the comic store every week when the books were released. I can't remember where I got issue 3 from or if I had to order it. |
Posted By: Tim O Neill
Date Posted: 17 July 2015 at 6:36pm
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STAR TREK: NEW VISIONS has been in an amazing groove with the last few issues. It's great to see a continuing series from JB, and I would like to see DANGER UNLIMITED have similar room to develop and grow. |
Posted By: Frank Turk
Date Posted: 24 July 2015 at 1:19pm
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Well, since no one else is writing The Fantastic Four, ... Seriously tho: nobody else is writing the Fantastic Four. The world is a poorer place for it. |
Posted By: Brian O'Neill
Date Posted: 24 July 2015 at 2:28pm
| What did retailers say was the logic behind decreasing the number of copies ordered? |
Posted By: JohnByrne4
Date Posted: 24 July 2015 at 2:30pm
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What did retailers say was the logic behind decreasing the number of copies ordered? No logic. Standard Operating Procedure. |
Posted By: Steven Myers
Date Posted: 24 July 2015 at 9:41pm
| I remember having problems finding first issues of certain series (including Next Men) because the speculators had bought them out. Another way to not build an audience: 5 people buy all copies of issue #1 with no interest in buying any more. |
Posted By: Joe Zhang
Date Posted: 24 July 2015 at 11:36pm
| Indeed, now that Marvel has voluntarily put the Fantastic Four in publishing limbo, it's a great time for the return of Danger Unlimited. |
Posted By: Shane Matlock
Date Posted: 25 July 2015 at 12:00am
| I'd love to see more Danger Unlimited! It was great to see more Next Men a few years back and I always hoped we'd see some more DU too. I also enjoyed Babe. |
Posted By: JohnByrne4
Date Posted: 25 July 2015 at 6:10am
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I remember having problems finding first issues of certain series (including Next Men) because the speculators had bought them out. Another way to not build an audience: 5 people buy all copies of issue #1 with no interest in buying any more. And we wonder why the industry failed? This was typical of the period. Shops over-ordered first issues, so there would be lots for the speculeeches. Ditto the second issue, tho not so many. By the third issue they were down to the number they expected to sell to regular readers -- who had not been able to get the first two!! |
Posted By: Geoffrey Langford
Date Posted: 25 July 2015 at 7:06am
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Is there a reason you've not brought the book back through IDW? They seem receptive to publishing your material in all sorts of formats. IDW published a trade edition collecting the 4 issues of DU. It seems logical to now follow up with a new 4 issue mini series that continues on from the original series -- then IDW could publish TWO new trades - one collecting the new mini and one collecting BOTH mini's. Free money to you in sales royalties. Rinse, wash, repeat - with a third mini series. |
Posted By: Wallace Sellars
Date Posted: 25 July 2015 at 9:13am
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I would happily buy new DANGER UNLIMITED comics, but it's more of the TRIO, TRIPLE HELIX and CONCLAVE universe I'm eager to see! |
Posted By: Andrew Bitner
Date Posted: 25 July 2015 at 9:18am
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Add my vote: I'd love to see more DU as an ongoing. Now I'm wondering-- would DU be part of the same world as Trio and Triple Helix? Hm. |
Posted By: Brian Miller
Date Posted: 25 July 2015 at 9:30am
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It's sorta possible. Golgotha was pulled from another universe in Triple Helix, I believe. |
Posted By: Steve De Young
Date Posted: 25 July 2015 at 6:05pm
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My local shops both still do basically the same thing. They order the number of copies that their pull list subscribers have committed to buy, and for the most part, that's it. The extremely mainstream DC and Marvel titles (Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, Avengers) they order 1 or 2 extra copies, max, for the shelf. Though I stopped getting monthly comics a few years back, I recently thought about getting my feet wet with a couple of individual titles again...when I found out I was going to have to go through all kinds of wrangling to get them locally, I decided against. If a book store operated that way, it would go out of business. When I hear about a book on NPR or somewhere else and get interested, I can walk into a local bookstore and usually find it pretty quickly. The idea that the same isn't true of comics is dumbfounding. |
Posted By: Charles Valderrama
Date Posted: 27 July 2015 at 3:43pm
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I would happily buy new DANGER UNLIMITED comics, but it's more of the TRIO, TRIPLE HELIX and CONCLAVE universe I'm eager to see! ***** I agree
. eager to see DANGER UNLIMITED in the TRIPLE HELIX universe!! C'mon, JB, make it happen!!!! PLEEEEZZEEEE!!! -C!
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Posted By: Nathan Greno
Date Posted: 27 July 2015 at 11:50pm
I'd be happy to see more DU commissions |
Posted By: Mason Meomartini
Date Posted: 28 July 2015 at 7:39pm
| Who are the characters in the top left, top right, and the male and female in the bottom right? |
Posted By: Nathan Greno
Date Posted: 28 July 2015 at 8:18pm
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Mason: Who are the characters in the top left, top right, and the male and female in the bottom right? ---  |
Posted By: Flavio Sapha
Date Posted: 28 July 2015 at 8:27pm
| DU was magic...! Probably my favorite thing in the Byrneverse! |
Posted By: Mason Meomartini
Date Posted: 30 July 2015 at 4:30pm
| I'd like to see an illustration by John Byrne arranged like this but with Danger Unlimited in the middle, the Fantastic Four on the left, and the Challengers of the Unknown on the right. |
Posted By: Gundars Berzins
Date Posted: 03 August 2015 at 7:30am
| I love all of the Byrneverse work. DU was maybe at the tops. |
Posted By: Robert Ingrao
Date Posted: 05 August 2015 at 2:35am
| if there is any comic id like to see un-cancelled its Danger Unlimited - it really had such a fantastic storyline - so much potential |