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         Mark McKay Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 8:10am | IP Logged | 1
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JB, would you expect an inker in this case to leave the photoshopped part as is?
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         Eric Ladd Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 8:16am | IP Logged | 2
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I would have to say that page 19 would be one of the most difficult pages to ink on a board.so many effects layered onto the page. If two pages are coming after this one then my money is on a double page spread. Talk about a page Turner, wowsers.
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         Michael Genitempo Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 8:19am | IP Logged | 3
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You'll be getting TWO pages tomorrow--and my own feeling is that "doozy" will not even cover it. . . . . . . . 
  >> Oh boy...
  
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         John Byrne 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 8:21am | IP Logged | 4
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JB, would you expect an inker in this case to leave the photoshopped part as is?••• Yes. I’d expect the colorist to have a greater say in the finished look of the image. 
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         Steven Queen Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 8:36am | IP Logged | 5
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That page should be an oil painting!  Wow is right!  
 
 Just awesome. 
  
 
 EDIT:  Also striking is how different this Jean looks from 5-year-old Jean.  It's so much more than the hair.  Body-language...eyes...everything.
  
  Edited by Steven Queen on 28 January 2021 at 8:40am
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         Michael Arndt Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 9:01am | IP Logged | 6
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Absolutely beautiful page.
  
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         Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 9:06am | IP Logged | 7
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JB, wonderful job on the facial expressions in particular! All around great art, too! 
 
 About Kitty and the kiss: Because of how Kitty touched her head, I pictured the kiss being on her forehead whenever I read it years ago. Honestly, especially as a kid, it never entered my mind that her adult version would kiss her on the lips. 
 
 Back to ELSEWHEN: Looking forward to see what happens next!! 
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         John Byrne 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 9:13am | IP Logged | 8
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About Kitty and the kiss: Because of how Kitty touched her head, I pictured the kiss being on her forehead whenever I read it years ago.••• Kitty grabbing her head was meant to indicate something was happening inside her brain/mind. How Chris came to write it aa he did I’ll never know—at least not beyond his standard “That was how I felt when I scripted it” response. He always had that one locked and loaded.  As I have noted before, it’s stuff like this that puts the lie to any real sense of “collaboration”.
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         Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 9:27am | IP Logged | 9
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Oh, I certainly understand the real reason you had Kitty's hand on her head now, after knowing the background.  But especially as a kid, knowing nothing of that background info, and basing what was in the art on what I read in the panel, that is how I originally interpreted the scene.
 
 In a related matter, I definitely see your point about the scene where Colossus was pulling up the stump. Even as a kid I wondered how a stump would give him such a challenge given the other feats of strength we saw with him. 
  
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         John Byrne 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 9:30am | IP Logged | 10
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THANK you!!
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         Eric Sofer Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 10:12am | IP Logged | 11
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Mr. Byrne, as this series goes further and further, I can see that you might be hampered by the addition of an inker. At first, the pencils, while beautiful, looked a bit unfinished. But time passes, and the current pages are so stylish, so sharp, so descriptive that I suspect you need NO inking on them; and that those inks might even diminish the artwork. And double that for a colorist.
 
 Your artistry is a true delight. Thank you once again. 
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         L Hunt Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 28 January 2021 at 10:42am | IP Logged | 12
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That last panel today is just astonishing.
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