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         James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 7:49am | IP Logged | 1
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The advantage of this format over a published comic is  best exemplified by the Colossus leg edits.
  Now, some might say an advantage would have been to have  had an editor make JB sort that out within the story, but  I quite like this organic nature/fluidity to the  production process.
  Is it a bit like Lucas tinkering with Star Wars? Maybe.  But what would we prefer?
  In some ways, it is a very good example of lack of ego  and the writer actually asking the question 'What next',  realising that there actually isn't anything and pulling  the plug.
  I really wish that had happened in a fair few published  comics in the past, but ego gets in the way and they keep  ploughing on regardless, trying to make something out of  nothing, because their original idea MUST have had merit  at the time.
  So bravo JB, and again, thanks for the years of free  comics that we are receiving.
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         Michael Arndt Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 8:13am | IP Logged | 2
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Way to start up the week with this great page. 
 
 Feel like I'm watching a chess match with the characters.  
 
 
  
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         John Byrne 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 8:25am | IP Logged | 3
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Is it a bit like Lucas tinkering with Star Wars? Maybe. But what would we prefer?••• Maybe that I got it right in the first place!
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         James Woodcock Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 9:30am | IP Logged | 4
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Ha! Well, yes. 
  But if not, to be humble enough to admit that you didn’t is a rare  character indeed
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         Andrew Bitner Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 9:41am | IP Logged | 5
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JB, I'm hoping I'm right about this but... IIRC, "Acts of Vengeance" was your idea, originally, switching around villains on the heroes.It's a terrific idea, so it makes me wonder if you had any inclination to let ELSEWHEN show how some of those ideas and concepts of yours might have played out as intended, without editorial mandates exploding and altering them profoundly. Thanks! 
  Edited by Andrew Bitner on 26 April 2021 at 9:42am
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         Jason K Fulton Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 9:43am | IP Logged | 6
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It occurred to me this morning that we have seen JB do something in the same vein as ELSEWHEN before, with the fifteen year gap between NEXT MEN books. It makes sense to me that the execution of ideas fifteen (or forty!) years later would be different - he's a different artist with additional experience now.
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         James Johnson Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 9:47am | IP Logged | 7
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IDW approached Marvel about this, and the response was if it’s going to happen, Marvel will handle it. Which means it’s not going to happen. Be content with what you’re getting, guys! ===================================================== I'm enjoying every panel!!! We'll never get this again. 
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         James Johnson Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 9:50am | IP Logged | 8
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.....I am the Great Satan, after all.........
 
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 ".....Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man of......"   
 
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         Rebecca Jansen Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 10:03am | IP Logged | 9
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A list of leg edited pages might be pretty handy if it hasn't been done already and I missed it, should anyone have the time/patience? I keep the alternate or outtake pages in their own folder and would move the earlier versions there.
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         Matt Hawes Byrne Robotics Member 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 10:05am | IP Logged | 10
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Storm's new look is growing on me! I like how she looks on today's page.
 
 Iceman's "pie a la mode" remark... Was that a sly nod to his infamous scene in "X-Men" (vol. 1) #3? 
  
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         John Byrne 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 10:10am | IP Logged | 11
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A sly nod? From moi?
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         John Byrne 
  
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           | Posted: 26 April 2021 at 10:15am | IP Logged | 12
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JB, I'm hoping I'm right about this but... IIRC, "Acts of Vengeance" was your idea, originally, switching around villains on the heroes.It's a terrific idea, so it makes me wonder if you had any inclination to let ELSEWHEN show how some of those ideas and concepts of yours might have played out as intended, without editorial mandates exploding and altering them profoundly. Thanks! ••• Typically for the time, Editorial had come up with the “Acts of Vengeance” title without a story concept behind it. I suggested swapping villains—which, as I recall, led to a bunch of Doctor Doom stories.  I have no desire to revisit that scenario in ELSEWHEN. 
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