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        | Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          By internal logic, the whole thing is a “What If..?”
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        | John Byrne 
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          Nah.  This is REAL.  Everything else is a WHAT IF...?
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        | Joe Murray Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Hehehaha, perfect!  I’ve already ordered my copy, yay.
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 JB, did you ink any of the physical pages? 
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        | John Byrne 
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          All the inks (except the heads on the first cover) are on blueline.
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        | John Byrne 
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          Correction: I added a page to give Jahf’s background to possible newcomers (a flashback to my first issue) and that I inked over the actual pencils.
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        | Joe Murray Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Very cool, thx!
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 Love the rarity, reminds me of the one page you inked of George’s X-MEN ANNUAL #3. 
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        | Brandon Carter Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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 |  | Hey, once published, this is officially no longer fan fic, right? 
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 That has been suggested.
 Kind of makes me a bit sad. ********** Could this be considered a graphic novel, since the individual issues were never published separately? 
 
 
 
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        | John Byrne 
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          Abrams is identifying each volume as a “graphic novel”.
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 |  As I mentioned, I am editing the work to turn the "issues" into chapters, with a more cohesive flow.  Issue titles become chapter titles, issue numbers become chapter numbers.
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        | John Byrne 
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          Seeing at least one fellow professional—who should know better—declaring it “unconscionable” that Terry Austin wasn’t brought in to ink this.
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 |  For the record, Chris Ryall reached out to Terry who politely declined. His reasons were good enough for me.  (No guessing please.)
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        | Mark Haslett Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          “It’s Unconscionable! You know, as in ‘If it doesn’t happen even if I think it
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 |  should, then it’s unconscionable!’”
 
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        | John Byrne 
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          I saw one poster—not a pro—declaring he will not buy this because of the absence of Terry and Glynis.
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 |  Why not go for the trifecta and demand Chris script the whole thing? sigh The object of the exercise has clearly been lost on some. 
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        | Robin Taylor Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Abrams wont take pre-orders from Canada but Amazon will so I guess I am doing that
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