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John Byrne
Imaginary X-Man
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 11:42am | IP Logged | 1
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Amusing coincidence: stepped into the storage room at the back of my Studio, looking for something unrelated, and there on a shelf was my original copy of UNCANNY X-MEN 138. (With bellbottoms!)
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Miguel Montenegro Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 13 April 2005 Location: Portugal Posts: 14
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 11:57am | IP Logged | 2
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I think I have been not been framing these right... Anyway, here's another one. Had some trouble figuring out the smaller figures because of the low-res image: Hope I got it right.
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John Byrne
Imaginary X-Man
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | 3
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Still not faithful to the pencils.
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Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 01 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5685
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 12:22pm | IP Logged | 4
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I'm starting to think there are no coincidences...
and I'm so happy to see the real Cyclops again!
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Thomas Woods Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 09 June 2004 Location: United States Posts: 1281
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 12:38pm | IP Logged | 5
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Man, the new pages are great. Really like page 3.
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John Byrne
Imaginary X-Man
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | 6
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Interesting that so many of you like Pg 3 especially. I think it's the weakest of the four!
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Nathan Greno Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 20 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 8699
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 1:47pm | IP Logged | 7
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Finished my lunch break early and took a stab at inking a panel. I'd much rather do this with actual pen and ink... but here's my digital try...
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Thomas Woods Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | 8
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Interesting that so many of you like Pg 3 especially. I think it's the weakest of the four!
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They are all great. But page 3 panel 1 is really cool. And panel 3 has a lot of depth, with foreground, middle, and background of storm landing.
Storm in the final panel is really nice too.
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Nathan Greno Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | 9
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It was fun to actually read a page :)
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 15870
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 2:14pm | IP Logged | 10
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The lettered page is my favorite.
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Phil Southern Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: United States Posts: 141
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | 11
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This is just the best!
JB, I think what you see as "weakest", I just see as "style". Anyway, you're not being paid to be a critic, you're being paid to write and draw a comic...oh, wait...nevermind
The bottom of Cyclops boot is especially cool!
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Thomas Woods Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | 12
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I don't buy enough comics these days to say this with a lot of evidence, but the few X books I have been able to see seems to boil down the combat to 1 or 2 panels and fill the rest of the issues with characters standing around talking.
They need to have more action sequences like this. I think it would help the sales.
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Charles Valderrama Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 3816
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 3:59pm | IP Logged | 13
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WOW!!!
This thread is becoming BETTER by the day!!!!
Again, I'm very inspired by the way JB pushes to improve from page to page!! Added X-TRA is seeing my favorite Uncanny X-Men team drawn by JB and in pencilled form... which I didn't see much of during the original run!
-C!
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Lars Sandmark Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 05 October 2007 Location: Canada Posts: 3136
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | 14
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Christmas in July! I lovelovelove this issue.
Thanks so much for posting this exercise JB, I'll speak for everyone here when I tell you this is everyone's dream come true. New X-men pages!
Something about the way you draw Cyclops' visor makes my brain happy. No wonder he was my favourite member.
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Nathan Greno Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 20 April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 8699
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | 15
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Hm... looking at this now, I see where I misinterpreted her neck for hair... and many other goofs...
FAIL.
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Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 14553
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | 16
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This has become my favorite new thread since JB started the "new Visions" thread a while back. Like that thread, I love how JB is apparently having some fun creating the new art, and his enthusiasm behind the work somehow makes the art that much more exciting to look at.
It's also fun to see how others interpret the pencils when they ink them. I admit, I am more a fan of the so-called "tracer" group of inkers, who follow the original lines and embellish without redrawing what is there. I am not singling out anyone in this thread, and I've stated in other threads that I feel someone of JB's caliber and experience probably knows what he's doing.
Once again, I go back to a former board member from years back who basically redrew everything in JB's pencils when the board was taking turns inking, coloring, and writing dialogue to an unpublished JB Fantastic Four story that JB sent to Marvel as a submission. In that instance, not only was it, quite frankly, some audacity to nearly fully redraw what JB had drawn, but he also changed the space outfits worn by the team so that his inked pages did not match the other pages the rest of us were working on. I recall we ended up using someone else's inks for those pages.
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Doug Centers Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 6:53pm | IP Logged | 17
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Loving these pages. Someone send a smoke signal to Tom Palmer, tell him to get his pens warmed up.
Oh, and Now I can say I Inked John Byrne's pencil's ,kind of.
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John Byrne
Imaginary X-Man
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | 18
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No, not Tom. Loved every line on HIDDEN YEARS, but it's the wrong look for this imaginary book.
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 15870
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | 19
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Mark Farmer?
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Doug Centers Byrne Robotics Member

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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | 20
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Oh, now you got me wondering JB.
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Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 29 August 2004 Location: United States Posts: 5694
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 9:39pm | IP Logged | 21
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Diggin’ It
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Casey Sager Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 596
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Posted: 11 July 2018 at 10:08pm | IP Logged | 22
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I think Dan Green always did a nice job inking JB.
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Joe Zhang Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 16 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 12100
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Posted: 12 July 2018 at 6:01am | IP Logged | 23
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Keep it going, JB. Please don't stop!
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Ted Pugliese Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 05 December 2005 Location: United States Posts: 7592
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Posted: 12 July 2018 at 6:34am | IP Logged | 24
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Ok, I know I am a little late to the party, but what a party it is. This is great, and these are incredible. Thank you for sharing, JB!
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George Lee Byrne Robotics Member

Joined: 24 October 2004 Location: United States Posts: 107
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Posted: 12 July 2018 at 6:56am | IP Logged | 25
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These pages are great! I always liked Joe Rubinstein's inks over JB back in the day.
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