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I just scored a Batman by Loeb/Sale Omnibus for $50. Out for delivery today. It collects ALL the Batman (and Catwoman) stuff they did together. Pretty pumped.

sounds great!

Finished ¨Monica¨ by Daniel Clowes.

Very cool one. Beautiful art and the main story is pretty good although Clowes is not for everyone. There seems to be some hidden stuff in the book i havent figured it yet, and there are passages that dont make sense but overall it was a good challenging read.

For those that enjoyed the Claremont/Byrne run on X-Men, there is some kinda-new Byrne X-Men coming starting next year. Back a few years ago, Byrne started having ideas of where the story would go had Jean not died in UXM 137 as per the original plan. He then started pencilling them and the story just kept going until he had like 32 issues completed. He would put each issue out monthly as fan fic on his website. Marvel heard about it and liked it and reached out about publishing it but they couldn’t come to terms. I don’t remember why, but he stopped with the 32nd issue. So they’ve just been sitting there on his site ever since.

It was announced yesterday that they were going to be published as 3 hardcover volumes beginning in April. Byrne will be inking about half of it and others will ink the other half. Very excited. I’ve read them all in pencil form more than once and it truly is some of the best work of his career. Can’t wait to see full finished work on them.

Here’s a link that has links to each issue if you want to check it out.

https://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/for ... ?TID=58810

Read the first two issues of Robin & Batman: Jason Todd and enjoyed them, I appreciate when Bat-books are filled with tension.

wease wrote:For those that enjoyed the Claremont/Byrne run on X-Men, there is some kinda-new Byrne X-Men coming starting next year. Back a few years ago, Byrne started having ideas of where the story would go had Jean not died in UXM 137 as per the original plan. He then started pencilling them and the story just kept going until he had like 32 issues completed. He would put each issue out monthly as fan fic on his website. Marvel heard about it and liked it and reached out about publishing it but they couldn’t come to terms. I don’t remember why, but he stopped with the 32nd issue. So they’ve just been sitting there on his site ever since.

It was announced yesterday that they were going to be published as 3 hardcover volumes beginning in April. Byrne will be inking about half of it and others will ink the other half. Very excited. I’ve read them all in pencil form more than once and it truly is some of the best work of his career. Can’t wait to see full finished work on them.

Here’s a link that has links to each issue if you want to check it out.

https://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/for ... ?TID=58810

forgot about this! thats super cool.

oasisfan35 wrote:Read the first two issues of Robin & Batman: Jason Todd and enjoyed them, I appreciate when Bat-books are filled with tension.

cool, ill read them

VinylGuy wrote:

wease wrote:For those that enjoyed the Claremont/Byrne run on X-Men, there is some kinda-new Byrne X-Men coming starting next year. Back a few years ago, Byrne started having ideas of where the story would go had Jean not died in UXM 137 as per the original plan. He then started pencilling them and the story just kept going until he had like 32 issues completed. He would put each issue out monthly as fan fic on his website. Marvel heard about it and liked it and reached out about publishing it but they couldn’t come to terms. I don’t remember why, but he stopped with the 32nd issue. So they’ve just been sitting there on his site ever since.

It was announced yesterday that they were going to be published as 3 hardcover volumes beginning in April. Byrne will be inking about half of it and others will ink the other half. Very excited. I’ve read them all in pencil form more than once and it truly is some of the best work of his career. Can’t wait to see full finished work on them.

Here’s a link that has links to each issue if you want to check it out.

https://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/for ... ?TID=58810

forgot about this! thats super cool.

i would say there has not been a better duo on a book as artist and writer as claremont and byrne. and i simply loved silvestri and claremonts run but there was just something about that time that byrne and chris were just machines churning out not only great stories but stellar art that both fed off each other

yeah i agree. Everything was amazing. What a great moment for X Men.

That's cool. Couldn't imagine doing 32 issues just for the heck of it.

I do encourage you guys to check out the pencils. Just beautiful stuff. Especially towards the end. An artist absolutely at the top of his game.

Peeps wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

wease wrote:For those that enjoyed the Claremont/Byrne run on X-Men, there is some kinda-new Byrne X-Men coming starting next year. Back a few years ago, Byrne started having ideas of where the story would go had Jean not died in UXM 137 as per the original plan. He then started pencilling them and the story just kept going until he had like 32 issues completed. He would put each issue out monthly as fan fic on his website. Marvel heard about it and liked it and reached out about publishing it but they couldn’t come to terms. I don’t remember why, but he stopped with the 32nd issue. So they’ve just been sitting there on his site ever since.

It was announced yesterday that they were going to be published as 3 hardcover volumes beginning in April. Byrne will be inking about half of it and others will ink the other half. Very excited. I’ve read them all in pencil form more than once and it truly is some of the best work of his career. Can’t wait to see full finished work on them.

Here’s a link that has links to each issue if you want to check it out.

https://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/for ... ?TID=58810

forgot about this! thats super cool.

i would say there has not been a better duo on a book as artist and writer as claremont and byrne. and i simply loved silvestri and claremonts run but there was just something about that time that byrne and chris were just machines churning out not only great stories but stellar art that both fed off each other

The way Byrne describes it, it was more like in spite of each other. He’s said that as co-plotter, he said no to a lot of what Chris wanted to do and as soon as he was gone, Chris started doing them. And the book hit the stratosphere in sales at that point so he must’ve been holding Chris back.

I will agree tho, that no matter how they feel about it, they were absolutely one of the top teams to ever work in comics. The only thing to even come close nowadays is Brubaker/Phillips.

i always had a special place for Grant- Breyfogle and the run of Giffen- DeMatteis too, but i agree with that

i will also add, despite finding out what a shit person they are, whedon and cassady told a really great long game story in astonishing X-men and i absolutely love that cassaday posted on "accident" a picture of phoenix on line and made everyone think they were resurrecting her when it was actually piotr. pure fucking genius

First I’ve heard about Cassady being an asshole. What did he do?

Colossus RULES!

Colossus was my favorite X Men as a kid. I loveeed him also on the arcades, a game i almost won! i got to fight Magneto and lost but my friends were blown away by it.

wease wrote:First I’ve heard about Cassady being an asshole. What did he do?

Colossus RULES!

HA

wease wrote:First I’ve heard about Cassady being an asshole. What did he do?

Colossus RULES!

The Comic world is full of weirdos and they like to eat their own but all I can remember about Cassady was that his art went way down hill towards the end there but I believe he had health problems and brain stuff so maybe that is why.

bada wrote:

wease wrote:First I’ve heard about Cassady being an asshole. What did he do?

Colossus RULES!

The Comic world is full of weirdos and they like to eat their own but all I can remember about Cassady was that his art went way down hill towards the end there but I believe he had health problems and brain stuff so maybe that is why.

i meant whedon as being a horrible person. by all accounts cassaday was a good guy


which leads to another question

can you still enjoy someones work even thought you think they are an asshole?

im thinking distinctly of Ethan van Sciver and jim steranko

Mark Waid is pretty unhinged but I still read his stuff.