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Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 17 April 2004 Location: United States Posts: 8009
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Posted: 25 January 2020 at 10:36am | IP Logged | 1
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"Fascinated by the apparent demand for work that falls deep inside “his old stuff was better” territory. Proof again, I suppose, that “old stuff” is measured on a sliding scale."
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Speaking of which, I was shocked when I realized that almost same amount of time has passed between your leaving X-MEN in 1980 and going back to X:HY in 1999 as between the end of X:HY in 2001 and your working on ELSEWHEN today.
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Thomas Fels Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 31 May 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 129
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Posted: 26 January 2020 at 4:43am | IP Logged | 2
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What I remember from the JB Doom Patrol is that it gained steam after a while, and got better and better, and even addictively good. Do people here agree on this? Or is it just me?
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17659
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Posted: 26 January 2020 at 11:13am | IP Logged | 3
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I enjoyed the entire series. The vampire "transition" issues were the least engaging for me, and those focusing on Grunt and Nudge were the most so. I wish JB owened Grunt, Nudge and her ghost soldier boyfriend (whose name escapes me at the moment) so that we could see more of them.
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John Byrne
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Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 132136
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Posted: 26 January 2020 at 11:23am | IP Logged | 4
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At least my ownership might have protected them!
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Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 12 February 2018 Location: Canada Posts: 4410
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Posted: 26 January 2020 at 12:00pm | IP Logged | 5
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"What I remember from the JB Doom Patrol is that it gained steam after a while, and got better and better, and even addictively good. Do people here agree on this? Or is it just me? "
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That's how I found it. I was very disappointed there wasn't a longer run. I hadn't seen the other versions outside the original '60s comic and the Teen Titans appearance circa #13-15 and I thought it was really solid. The extras in this collection make it tempting, I'll have to check it out. I did see the '70s Showcase revival DP. I did not like the Joe Staton redesign for Robotman though, but there was a funny cover on the Comic Reader by JB about that!
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 26 January 2020 at 12:11pm
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John Byrne
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Posted: 27 January 2020 at 12:23pm | IP Logged | 6
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Altho some fans at the time interpreted that TCR cover as indicating deep animosity between Joe Staton and me, it was actually inspired by Joe having been told to make the new Robotman a “Byrne robot”.
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Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 01 May 2004 Location: United States Posts: 17659
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Posted: 29 January 2020 at 6:44am | IP Logged | 7
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Aaaargh!
*owned*
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James Johnson Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 16 March 2009 Location: United States Posts: 2041
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Posted: 26 February 2020 at 11:51am | IP Logged | 8
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I received my copy yesterday.
This will give me some reading enjoyment over the upcoming weekend.
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Leigh DJ Hunt Byrne Robotics Member
Joined: 20 February 2008 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1570
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Posted: 08 March 2020 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | 9
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Got mine today. Nice that there's lots of extras including art sketches and character designs plus older DP stories that JB worked on.
But the binding is awful. Marvel has got a bit worse recently with their Omni binding but it's still a million times better than this. Only the middle fof the book lays flat.
Also, odd to put in a foreword by JB that is actually the text piece from #1 of the run.
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