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John Byrne
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 11:30am | IP Logged | 1
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Wow.....would love to see a JB drawn crossover, set in the 1980s!!•• I'll be wandering thru the 80s in FINDERS OF LOST CHILDREN, but only for one regular sized issue. Not sure I could deal with all that puffy hair and big shoulders much longer! (And it may turn out to be the 90s anyway!!)
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Eric Smearman Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 11:52am | IP Logged | 2
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WOW...Now that takes me back! Great work, JB. And congrats to Dan!
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Wilson Mui Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 11:55am | IP Logged | 3
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Congratulations, Dan and thank you for all the work you do for the Forum.
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Thomas Moudry Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | 4
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That is incredible! It could've come from a "Missing Pin-Up Gallery" from '80s crossover. My Golden Age of Comics right there--sixteen.
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Sean Watson Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | 5
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AWESOME!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations, Dan that is a very good choice for a commission.
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Stephen Churay Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:10pm | IP Logged | 6
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That's awesome! Congrats Dan!
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Carmen Bernardo Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | 7
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The XM-TT crossover art that should've been... well done. (Nothing to take away from Walt and Terry, but it does seem to ask the question why either George or Dave, given that you yourself wasn't interested in either team at this time, wasn't tagged for the project.)
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | 8
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VERY COOL!!! I like seeing your take on the classic New Teen Titans, JB!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | 9
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The XM-TT crossover art that should've been... well done. (Nothing to take away from Walt and Terry, but it does seem to ask the question why either George or Dave, given that you yourself wasn't interested in either team at this time, wasn't tagged for the project.)•• As I recall, the decision was made to have a penciler who was not associated with either book handle the art chores. This eliminated any question of "Why John/Dave, not George?" (or vice versa).
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Rick Shepherd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:25pm | IP Logged | 10
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It's such a perfect fit - I've long equated JB's work on Uncanny X-Men with George Pérez' New Teen Titans run, so this feels so very right to me (and I'm sure many others, for the same reason!).
That said, I'm still amazed at how natural a fit Perez' character designs are with JB's style. Oh, sure - it makes total sense when one considers it logically, but that doesn't make it any less of a "wow!" moment to see it realised like this.
(Which reminds me of the mnemonic label I gave JB, GP and JLG-L (!) when I was growing up - 'model-sheet artists'. And I meant that in the most complimentary way possible - they weren't just incredible artists, they were the people who always drew 'on-model', giving the proper, definitive version of whichever character they drew. Still holds true!)
So much awesome here - thanks JB, and thanks Dan for commissioning it! That's my quota of cool for the day - I'm going to spend the rest of the evening with a dappy grin on my face...
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Thomas Moudry Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | 11
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Even though it went back to the Dark Phoenix well just--what?--two years after X-Men 137, I was completely pleased with X-Men/New Teen Titans. In fact, I was quite happy that it wasn't the X-Men/Legion of Super-Heroes crossover Jim Shooter had wanted.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 13 January 2013 at 12:32pm | IP Logged | 12
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That said, I'm still amazed at how natural a fit Perez' character designs are with JB's style. Oh, sure - it makes total sense when one considers it logically, but that doesn't make it any less of a "wow!" moment to see it realised like this.** Two stories, told before: • I often find myself struggling when called upon to draw George's characters. His design sense is very different from my own, depending as it does on many, many lines, and often asymmetry. My own approach to costumes design is heavily influenced by Gil Kane's anatomy-guided, smooth and symmetrical costumes. (Ironically, of course, two of the designs for which I am best known are asymmetrical: Guardian and Northstar/Aurora.) • When I was trying to work up a design for the Master, in ALPHA FLIGHT, I found I could not get Brother Blood, the TEEN TITANS villain, out of my brain. Sketch after sketch came out looking like Brother Blood. Finally I settled on something that was as far from Blood as I could get, but it was still not completely free of the influence. Years later, I mentioned this to George and he laughed most heartily. Brother Blood, he told me, was his attempt to design a "Byrne character"!
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