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        | Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          THUMM!
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        | John Byrne 
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          You can't imagine how much thought went into choosing that sound effect!  Really!  I asked myself what it would sound like if the Thing hit a metal object that was surrounded by a force field.  Not CLANG certainly.  Something more like a muffled bell.  Thus, THUMM.
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        | Richard Stevens Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          I love it. Feels like a sound out of a starship.
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        | Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          It's perfect!
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 I like the way my eyes are led from Ben punching the Sentinel to Cyclops' position on the ground.
 
 Oh, and the little details included in your backgrounds continue to amaze!
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        | John Byrne 
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          Side Note:  Working on this particular "issue" I was reminded once again of how much influence I seem to have picked up from Rich Buckler, in my drawing of the Thing.
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 |  Coincidentally, one of the first pieces I inked for the old CPL fanzine was a Buckler sketch of the Thing Roger Stern had picked up at a con.  (Also a sketch of Marvel's Hercules I inked, too.)  My attitudes have changed a lot since those days, and I would now be disinclined to ink a pencil sketch by another artist.  Or by me, for that matter!
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        | Wallace Sellars Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          JB, I am still partial to the "starfish" Thing you used to draw, but your current approach to penciling Mr. Grimm does seem more apropos here.
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        | Vinny Valenti Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          The vibration effect on THUMM! really sells it!
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        | John Byrne 
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          JB, I am still partial to the "starfish" Thing you used to draw, but your current approach to penciling Mr. Grimm does seem more apropos here.
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 |  •• I'm drawing the appropriate Thing for the time period.
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        | Tony Moretti Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Anytime I read your Thing dialogue JB, I'm reminded of a story you did in What The..? and made the side note that it's hard to write funny Thung dialogue that doesn't sound like the real thing.
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        | John Byrne 
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          …I'm reminded of a story you did in What The..? and made the side note that it's hard to write funny Thung dialogue that doesn't sound like the real thing.
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 |  •• True dat! It's not unlike watching A MIGHTY WIND and realizing there is virtually no way to write a parody of a folk song.
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        | Stéphane Garrelie Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          Me i like this way to draw the Thing.
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 Issue #8 was fine and i am impatient to see the rest of issue #9. | 
       
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        | Sean Sinclair Byrne Robotics Member
 
  
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          IIRC, Susan Richards not only has the ability to create force-fields of her own, but also to "un-create" fields generated externally. That should be a game-changer in the current conflict!
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 (...although I wonder if Shaw took steps to get around that, since he was plotting to kidnap Susan's son??) 
 As usual, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting for tomorrow's installment.  | 
       
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