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John Byrne
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Looking over the last few issues of ELSEWHEN, I found myself wondering if I had successfully imparted to you an important distinction between the seemingly similar powers of Ashley and Pablo. While Ashley is basically a puppeteer (I even considered that for her superhero code name), Pablo actually gives LIFE to the things he animates. Show of hands—who picked up on that?
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Mark Haslett
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I could not have explained it. I do feel like that’s what I was sensing— Pablo
worked through the things he manipulated from the inside out. Ashley was
something else I figured I would catch on to when it became important.
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JB, that's what I figured.
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I didn't completely pick up on that. but looking back on specific scenes, I probably should have!
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I got it.
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I can't recall if I did or didn't connect those dots! Reading it at a page a day (or whatever the release cadence was) kind of broke my ability to make the types of connections I normally do when engaging my comic jones. No knock on the writing, which was top tier, but in that particular mode I was just luxuriating in the pencil art and figuring that I'd be able to read it as a straight-up comic when it was inevitably published. Time makes fools, etc.
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Joe Smith
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I was expecting him to become Proteus and send things sideways.
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John Byrne
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proteus scared the crap out of me when I was a kid! They just narrowly beat
him in an emotional nightmare of a story arc. You rarely cared about the
grief and nightmares you’d inflicted upon my soul up till then, why wouldn’t
you just make me care about this little kid and then have him actually be
Proteus?
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John Byrne
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Proteus was about 99% Chris’ character. I didn’t have much interest in him/it. Certainly not enough for the convoluted concept you suggest.
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Reading the issues when initially released as daily pages, I did not ever confuse the abilities of the two characters - but I did not think about it too deeply at the time, as I was having such a great time reading the stories.
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