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Brian Miller
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You mean the guy in the middle of the bottom row isn't Reed Richards? Wow.
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James C. Taylor
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You know, I was just thinking "That little old African lady in Action #827, that's Reed Richards."
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Moyer Hall
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I remember sitting for hours trying to mimick J.B.'s face styles in all my
characters. I just fell in love with his work in She-Hulk and facial
expressions. It was truly the cleanest, crisp art I had ever seen in a comic.
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John Byrne
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...all those people look like brothers and sisters...
*****
Are we not, truly, each other's brothers and sisters?
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Ernest Degollado
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As is obvious by my avatar JB's rendition of Reed Richards is my favorite. Just as you can tell the difference between characters standing in silhouette when JB draws them it's certainly a thankless skill when I can recognized different characters drawn by JB without him having to resort to "extra hints" I can recognize his Johnny Storm without his face being on fire, I can recognize Reed Richards without him having to draw some part of him stretching, I can even recognize his Perry White without the cigar in his mouth. Many characters have visual cues to help the reader recognize them but the fact remains that JB's skill in drawing faces that can be recognized without these cues is a testament to his skill and dedication to the craft.
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Matt Hawes
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Andrew Kneath wrote:
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Of course JB's faces do not all look the same. However JB's faces all look like they are drawn by John Byrne!...
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Exactly! JB uses a wide range of different faces, and always has as far as I can tell. Even in his earliest Marvel work, his Storm did not look like Misty Knight, who did not look like Black Widow, who did not look like Jean Grey, etc.
There are Jim Lee "faces," Frank Miller "faces," Steve Dillon "faces," and so on. They don't draw every character with the same face anymore than JB does, but you know their style when you see it. I think that must be the problem with the numbskulls that are trying to criticize JB on his faces.
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Matt Hawes
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John Mietus wrote:
Andrew Kneath wrote:
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Of course JB's faces do not all look the same.
However JB's faces all look like they are drawn by John Byrne!
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Exactly. |
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Hey, we both had the same response! ;-)
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Richard Fisher
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John Byrne wrote:
...all those people look like brothers and sisters...
*****
Are we not, truly, each other's brothers and sisters?
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Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
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Darren Taylor
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John Byrne wrote:
| [snip]...but if I let them slide -- as once I did with "Byrne's stuff doesn't sell anymore" -- they quickly become canonical. Especially by the time they reach the twenty-third or -fourth hand iteration on the internet. |
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Seems to me that the more often something gets repeated the more power it seems to gain, almost as if it's a lie gaining momentum on it's way to becoming the truth!
The bottom line is that -if- all "current" comic-book artists were made into "Trump" cards, there would be no beating John if you had him in your hand!* Virtually every statistic is so far unsurpassed by the majority of his contemporaries and that in itself is enough reason for some losers to hate him.
There's a very good reason that these detractors appear to make up unsubstatiated shite against John and that's because it is all a lie! When the truth doesn't lend itself to say something bad about someone, then make it up. That's why we can all see through these irratating claims, because they are so obviously unfounded.
* Err "Hand" as in a "Hand of cards" rather than anything a little more "friendly!" ;-)
Edited by Darren Taylor on 27 May 2005 at 9:19am
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Andrew Bitner
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JB: Are we not, truly, each other's brothers and sisters?
***************
Oh God, that was the funniest response I've seen all week.
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Jason Fulton
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Guest79877180
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Richard Fisher wrote:
John Byrne wrote:
...all those people look like brothers and sisters...
*****
Are we not, truly, each other's brothers and sisters?
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Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another right now
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Where's my Mylanta...
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