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Rick Whiting
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Posted: 27 January 2015 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | 1  

Newsarama put out an article yesterday spotlighting and analyzing JB's "Snowblind" story from AF #6.

http://www.newsarama.com/23333-remembering-comic-books-most- infamous-snowstorm.html

http://www.newsarama.com/23333-remembering-comic-books-most- infamous-snowstorm.html

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John Byrne
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SO tired of the "did it to meet a deadline" crap.
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Fabrice Renault
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Link doesn't work for me.
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Jason Stephens
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Posted: 28 January 2015 at 12:55am | IP Logged | 4  

That was a great issue.  I loved the Great Beasts storyline.

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gene holman
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IMO those "blank" pages contained more storytelling and action than an entire issue of most of the books I thumb through these days. One of my favorite comics.
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Matt Hawes
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Posted: 28 January 2015 at 10:29am | IP Logged | 6  

Here is a working...

LINK!


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Jim Petersman
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Assistant editor's month had "stunts" like this happening in most of the titles released that month. Why would this particular one be indicative of anything other than joining in on the fun? The "meeting deadline" (I used it right this time!) riff only works if you completely ignore all context around assistant editor's month. Including the blurb on the very first page!
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Andy Mokler
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Dick Mikes · University of Notre Dame
It's crap like that that explains why Byrne is nothing today,

JB, do you ever feel a little like George Lucas?  I mean, guys like this must feel that you "raped their childhood" to bother being so bitter, right?
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Michael Hogan
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Coming up: JB draws Black Panther fighting Cloak and the Shroud during the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965!
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Andrew Bitner
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Read that issue while a student at Rutgers College. Blown away by how inventive and fun the story was. Sad that so many didn't get it or had to ascribe nefarious motives to JB and/or others, when it was nothing but a fun story.
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Mark Haslett
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This issue and the Fantastic Four were the only comics that month that weren't diminished severely by "Assistant Editor's Month" imho.

The "confusion" people seem to exhibit looking at that issue now-a-days only underscores how well-done these pages were. They're too good to be recognized as a joke, yet too odd to be seen as normal.

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Eric Ladd
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Posted: 28 January 2015 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | 12  

We also seem to live in an age where entire generations of people don't investigate beyond the surface. Judging a book by it's cover seems to have become the norm. It is rare these days that people take the time to understand why something is the way it is instead of just running with their assumptions.

Mark, I completely agree. The subtlety of the joke is lost on the fools because it is constructed so well.

** edited to add comment to Mark


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