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        | Dean Munday Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          You're apologising for us having to wait until April 6th for the next 'issue'?!?!?
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 This is truly the BEST X-book of the last few decades and it is a crime it is not seeing print (not a criticism, just an observation). We are getting to see/read this sublime vision for FREE. And you are apologising???
 
 Never mind that - thank YOU for making it relevant to be an X-Men fan again after all these years. I've missed these misfits.
 
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        | Michael Genitempo Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Hear! Hear! Well said, James - I agree wholeheartedly!
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 While at this point it goes without saying, I'll say it again anyways:  Thanks again for the awesome art and story, John.  We're not yet that spoiled that we can't wait for you to draw all this at whatever pace you feel.
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        | Philippe Pinoli Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          (Month long) Winter has come...I'm an addict
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 |  without his (Mr)fix(it). JB, thanks for this dream
 come true. You came back to finish JBNM, now your
 UXM. I am a happy fan/kid again.
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        | John Byrne 
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          As far as this being the “best X-book”, I don’t know that I can necessarily take a whole lot of credit for that. After all, I have the distinct advantage of being able to pick and choose when it comes to “continuity”, and I am not lumbered with all the junk and nonsense that’s been shoveled by into the hopper since I left.
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        | Mark McKay Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Even so, you've shown just how easy it could be to put the book onto a solid footing in a short time frame. Any writer could pick up today's books choose to ignore a bunch of what had gone on before, and just start writing good stories.
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        | John Byrne 
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          The marketplace that has been created over the last 40 years would make it, I think, very hard for writers, artists and editors to work any real change. Even if we ignore having to arrive at a concensus on what should or should not be “fixed” there are too many customers who would strongly resist any modification of the status quo.
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        | Michael Genitempo Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          there are too many customers who would strongly resist any modification of the status quo.
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 >>>
 
 It's been a while, but did you see much resistance when you "reworked" Superman?  Of course that run was very successful, and we enjoyed it very much, but I seem to recall some resistance at first...
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        | John Byrne 
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          If you call villagers with torches and pitchforks “resistance”.....
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        | Michael Genitempo Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          If you call villagers with torches and pitchforks “resistance”.....
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 LOL -wow... Well in the end those comments will be mostly forgotten by and large (I hope) and all that will be remembered will be the excellent work you did.
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        | Tony Moretti Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          "there are too many customers who would strongly resist any modification of the status quo."
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 Seeing as how the status quo now involves Scott/Jean/Logan in a love triangle of a much more literal sense, count me among the resistance. 
 Edited by Tony Moretti on 03 March 2020 at 12:30pm
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        | John Byrne 
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          To be clear, you would NOT want to see that changed?
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        | Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Only if Jean is NOT the one removed. Or are Scott and Logan in a relationship now?
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