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Gustavo C Cruz
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Posted: 29 May 2023 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Since the eighties I only have had my mexican version of World of Krypton. A smaller than digest sized comic with a very lousy and condensed translation. In those years, 22-pages american comics were rearranged into 32 pages showing no interest at all in respecting the original storytelling. At the time, an unknowingly horrible edition that could not ruin such a great comic.

Now, I have finally bought the series in TPB to discover that the story is even better, and the dialogues(!!) and the art, and the designs, everything. What a delight was to really read it for the first time. 

I think World of Krypton should have a place next to works like Batman year one and Walter Simonson Manhunter. It is in my opinion one the best comics I have ever read and also one of the BEST SCI-FI STORIES IN ANY MEDIUM. 

Mr Byrne, if I can ask....
How did you exactly envision the planet to be? I mean, how BIG do you imagine Krypton was?
And how many inhabitants do you think it had for the time of Jor-El?

Thank you again for one more great story...
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Posted: 29 May 2023 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Since DC had shifted Superman’s powers to being derived from solar radiation, I felt Krypton no longer needed to be gigantic. (The whole heavy gravity thing didn’t really work anyway, once Superman started flying.)

So, I felt it was basically Earth sized.

Population was pretty low by Jor-El’s time.

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Mark Haslett
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Posted: 29 May 2023 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Somehow, I skipped this.

Amazing that such a highly praised work by JB still remains for me to visit after almost a literal lifetime of pouring over his work.

Thank you, John, for all your stories and art, great interviews and good times on this board!
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Petter Myhr Ness
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 9:52am | IP Logged | 4 post reply
I enjoyed this story, both JB's writing and Mignola's art was top notch. And the "Return to Krypton" story was a fitting companion. 

JB, did you intend that last story to be some sort of closure to all things Krypton?
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Rich Marzullo
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
I seem to vaguely recall a World of Smallville and World of Metropolis series, though I'm not sure how much, if any, involvement JB had in those.
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Darren Ashmore
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 2:09pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
Rich, World of Smallville and World of Metropolis
were indeed wriiten by JB with, if I recall
correctly, art by Kurt Schaffenburger (sic)/Alfredo
Alcala AND Al Williamson respectively. Both series,
as you might expect, focused on the earlier, pre
Kal-el stories of both places and giving new insight
into Ma and Pa Kent's history in WofS, and a feud
between Perry White and Lex Luthor in WofM. Not
certain if they have ever been reprinted but if you
can track them down they're well worth a read.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 2:32pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
JB, did you intend that last story to be some sort of closure to all things Krypton?

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I long ago gave up any idea that I—or anyone else—could bring closure to ANY story.

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Brian Miller
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
Don’t forget those Byrne/Simonson covers!
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Eric Smearman
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | 9 post reply
Darren: Slight correction...

WORLD OF METROPOLIS was penciled by Win Mortimer and inked
by Dick Giordanao (though I recall detecting some Frank
McLaughlin in there).
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 6:50pm | IP Logged | 10 post reply
“Some”
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Darren Ashmore
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Posted: 30 May 2023 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | 11 post reply
Eric, thank you! Brain fart alert.
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Eric White
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Posted: 31 May 2023 at 4:28am | IP Logged | 12 post reply
I loved the comics you did with Mike Mignola. Your words worked well with his art. 
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