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Armindo Macieira
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Good ol' days when Wolverine was actually small...

Nice issue (although I was still getting used to not having mr. Byrne inking his own work).

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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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Great issue. I like the unused cover.
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Philippe Negrin
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The skull of the Master was censored and appeared as smooth skin in the French editions... The Marrina creatures ? Also censored! This was the point in the middle 80's where I started to realize that maybe the original versions were avalaible and maybe better to read. Which I eventually did.
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Love the beginnings of the new BOX subplot.  Bochs/Jeffries/Walter/Box would have made for a great spinoff title.  It's depressing on how little JB used them before he left the book. 

I keep looking at that full page helmetless Master shot and wondering what it would look like with a post-BotD JB drawing it.  It was gruesome enough for me as a kid!

Not the best Heather has looked, though that's normal after a few days in the hospital.

The pin-up is gorgeous, even with the coloring mistake.  Six members seems too few for AF, despite it working well for the Avengers and X-Men.  Eight was a healthy number for me.

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 17 January 2008 at 10:46am | IP Logged | 5  

This issue had the weakest inks of the entire JB run, I thought.

It's interesting to compare how "unattractive" Jeffries and Bochs debuted as, and how each were "prettified" by later artists.
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Posted: 17 January 2008 at 10:57am | IP Logged | 6  

Incidentally, page 8 was supposed to look like this:


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Matt Hawes
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JB, why was page 8 changed?
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Philippe Negrin
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What happened ? Why the change, Mister Byrne ?
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It wasn't "changed". It was not finished. I sent in the page with a note
that the image in the third panel needed to be statted into the fourth and
fifth as indicated. This wasn't done, and I didn't know it hadn't been done
until I saw the published issue.
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Matt Hawes
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I would think that one benefit of the computer age of comics is that such stats can be easily made by the artist these days, instead of having to rely on the people at the office.

 



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Posted: 17 January 2008 at 11:24am | IP Logged | 11  

No kidding! Sending stuff in on disc has completely eliminated this little
problem for me!

(Now I just have to worry about balloon placement and coloring!)
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Loved this issue - I remember feeling so bad for Marrina...

Curious - did Pat Broderick ink this issue?  Heather on page 9 looks like she may have been redrawn by him.
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