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John Byrne
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 8:52am \| IP Logged \| 1	post reply

With ASSIGNMENT:EARTH 4 finished, I thought I'd spend a few days on
commissions. Not sure how many.

approx. 11x17 inches

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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 8:53am \| IP Logged \| 2	post reply

Ok, now that's a cool idea....

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Fred J Chamberlain
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 8:53am \| IP Logged \| 3	post reply

Oh my stars and garters!!! A silver Age cover with John's sensibilities.... stunning!!!

*11 to go ;) *

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Marc Foxx
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 8:55am \| IP Logged \| 4	post reply

What a cool idea!

Nice to know I'm somewhere in that line, myself, Fred!

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Greg Woronchak
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 8:55am \| IP Logged \| 5	post reply

It always makes me laugh when I see Bobby throwing snow balls on the original... not very threatening <g>.

I like your 'take' and overall cover very much!

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Joe Hollon
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 8:57am \| IP Logged \| 6	post reply

This is exceptional! Love what you did with the Comics Code stamp and Beast especially.

Great commission idea and execution.

Added for comparison since no one else did:

Edited by Joe Hollon on 22 May 2008 at 1:13pm

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Richard Callaghan
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 8:59am \| IP Logged \| 7	post reply

That's a really interesting idea for a piece, well done to whoever requested that.

Interesting also that JB's X Men, albeit older ones, have more musculature than their Kirby counterparts - something that's usually the other way round.

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Joe Zhang
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 9:02am \| IP Logged \| 8	post reply

Let's take a minute to imagine the story behind the cover of that first issue.

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Ryan Maxwell
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 9:08am \| IP Logged \| 9	post reply

The corner box hints they might be in those original costumes for a minute or two on the inside.

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Kevin Hagerman
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 9:11am \| IP Logged \| 10	post reply

Maybe the uniforms make their debut on the last page--?

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Joe Hollon
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 9:13am \| IP Logged \| 11	post reply

Another comment: normally I would think six figures is too many for an 11x17 but this worked out great (even with the space taken up by the title and corner box...although I guess Kirby gave JB a good model to follow!).

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JT Molloy
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Posted: 22 May 2008 at 9:13am \| IP Logged \| 12	post reply

That's just awesome.

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