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Sergio Aledo
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This image is from an actual theatre show in Spain with very famous spanish TV actors in it. Can you list the number of things in it that remember you to John Byrne? For me there are quite a few.
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I'm not sure I totally get this game 

Sorry :(
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Well, 

1. There is the Headhunter imagery from the Namor series.
2. The hairstyle of the girl looks like something JB would draw.
3.  The walls have designs on them that we saw in a lot of 70's and 80's JB work.

Edit: Correction - The walls have designs on them that that reminds me of what we saw in a lot of 70's and 80's JB work.


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3. The walls have designs on them that we saw in a lot of 70's and 80's JB work.

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We did?

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I corrected my post to say it reminded me of that.
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Still... examples please?
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I find that it is more my memory playing tricks on me. 

As I look back for good examples what I am finding is the different methods you used to draw carpet or someone's jacket back then.  Like FDR's carpet in Cap 255 or Joe MacTaggert's coat in X-Men 127-128.  I know it is not the same, still, that is what it reminded me of when I first saw it.
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The hairstyle makes sense... I feel like that's one of the styles I've seen JB draw. Other than that, I'm not sure what else...

I'm curious about the number of things Sergio sees. Do you mind listing them, Sergio? 
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Not only the hair but the actress' eyes are similar to John's style of drawing.
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That doesn't make me think of any comic art.

It was Bob Layton who would use various letratone/zip-a-tone patterned prints for wallpapers and curtains. Possibly he or Gene Day used something like that on a Byrne page?
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I'm curious about the number of things Sergio sees. Do you mind listing them, Sergio? 

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Well, I have tought at first sight that the poster was inspired by the Headhunter imagery from the Namor series.
-The hair of the actress (and she doesn't usually use that style) reminds me of John Byrne's drawings
-The hair covering the neck so we don't know what is going on with the rest of the body.
-The head in the wall quite as a trophee.
-The frontal and neutral expression on the girl's face, like deshumanizing her.
-The use of an element between the head and the wall to make "the trick".
-The person that "controls" the head trying to create the illusion of a human head in a wall (the head is perfect vertical and the frame is not)
Well, a lot of details all together... not a coincidence.
It's like when a saw the film "Indecent Proposal" with Robert Redford and Demi Moore. It was to me like a bad copy of the pages of Lex Luthor with the little town witress. I was all the film like... "They're trying to stretch this horrendous copy to a film length but they don't know how to do it".
It's only me? Any of you think this poster or that movie could have been inspired by John Byrne's art and writting?
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I can see Jean Grey circa 1978/79 comics in that
actress.
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