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        | Kevin Moorhead Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          [KEVIN SHAKING HIS FIST]
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 |  That was my joke.
 
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        | James Revilla Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Man an X Title, moving from the original 137 ending on...talk about printing gold. Would be head and shoulders above Exiles and the X-Books being made now.
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        | Al Cook Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I'm not so sure I'd be interested in moving on from the original ending
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 |  planned for #137.
 
 Say what you want about what happened there with the change, but I think it
 produced a much better story, and created a much more interesting
 playground for future stories.
 
 Now those are the stories I'd like to see how JB would have told...
 
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        | Lars Sandmark Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          THIS IS THE BEST THREAD EVER!
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 Thank you Cory and JB.
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        | Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          In agreement with Lars.  Thanks for the bump up ahead.  I missed this 2 weeks ago.
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        | Brad Hague Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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           | Posted: 08 September 2008 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | 6 | post reply |  
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 |  So it's a race to see who can put together the $$$ to get a commission to see the original intended death of Mariko and Sabertooth. Man, that would be the coolest commission ever. JB, do you remember enough to be be able to do a full issue of the "imaginary tale?" | 
       
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        | Mike Farley Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I missed this 2 weeks ago.
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 ****
 
 It was a 2 YEAR bump!
 
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        | Joe Smith Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Holy!  I didn't see that!  WOW! Thanks Paul!
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        | James Revilla Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Yes but with Jean left alive, you get Rachel and obviously a whole different slew of stories. I am more interesting in seeing what might have been rather than a retelling of what already happened.
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        | Al Cook Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I wasn't talking about a retelling of what already happened.  I was talking
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 ones.  That made more sense that the crap that once-beloved book so
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        | Cory Vandernet Byrne Robotics Member
 
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 |  Question for JB Your departure form the X-Men was pretty sudden and must have caught Claremont and Shooter by surprise and if I recall correctly, X-Men 144 penciled by Brent Anderson was the same plot outline that you recieved from Claremont. Had you received any other plots from Claremont before you quit the book? | 
       
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        | John Byrne 
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          Chris and I had been on "phone plots" for quite some time when I quit the book.  Somewhere around 113, as I recall, we stopped doing written plots.  Chris and I would talk stuff over, and then one of us -- usually me, when it was Roger -- would call the editor and firm stuff up.
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 |  What happened in 144 bore but fleeting resemblance to the story that had been worked out before I left.  It's the first example of the Byrne-Free Zone X-MEN. | 
       
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