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Spectacular Spider Byrne.

By morgado | Published May 19, 2010

God I love John Byrne commissions.

The man never skimps on the detail. Ever.

Look at that background. The man could have left it blank, or just done some shadows or generic buildings. But no, instead we get these hyper detailed buildings, vertigo inducing buildings. They’re almost optical illusion creating. So cool.

(This is from the same seller who has up the Wolverine/Rogue commission I posted earlier in the week. Once again, he has a link to the Byrne Robotics forum thread about the commission, and lists the original price.)

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Original Price Tag: $1600.00

By morgado | Published May 18, 2010

There’s a quite a ways to go before this seller makes his money back. But there’s five days to go, and it’s an original John Byrne. I think this will absolutely end well.

Be sure to check the auction, as it comes with a link to a thread about the piece on John Byrne’s message board.

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There’s the Marvel way…

By admin | Published May 18, 2010

And there’s the John Byrne way.

Either way, you’re learning from the pros.

And in fact, at certain points I think you could argue that the Marvel way was the John Byrne way. This 1985 sketchbook / guide includes such creepy weirdness as (the seller states) ”(including nudes!)”

Nudes or not, I bet this is a solid purchase. And I’m willing to bet Solson Publications didn’t make a whole ton of these…

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The Many Looks of Metallo.

By morgado | Published May 5, 2010

Metallo… The Killer With The Kryptonite Heart!

What a great tagline. And it’s not like Superman has a lot of cool villains with cool taglines. The man barely even has that many cool villains.

That’s the original (technically the second, since Superman once fought a Metalo with one T, but he was completely unrelated) Metallo’s look, right up there. Pretty straight forward; appropriate given that he was a straight forward cyborg, albeit one whose body could be powered for life via kryptonite. Of course once he stole some, he wasted it on a plot to kill Superman instead, and so he died when his batteries did. If only the Energizer Bunny had been his partner in crime. Alex Ross later revisited this look for his Justice miniseries.

Alex Ross later revisited this look for his Justice miniseries.

Later on down the line, the original Metallo’s brother would show up for revenge, using a similar gimmick.

To me, this was always the coolest Metallo. A severed head in a super strong, unstoppable, kryptonite powered (and kryptonite chest beam shooting!) robot body? Awesome. It was this incarnation that first got the “The Killer With The Kryptonite Heart!” tagline. He got even cooler to me when he added his mask

Very few villains can pull off an orange and green color scheme. The pre-Crisis Metallo is one of the few.

Of course, then came the 80s, and the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Which led to Metallo getting revamped by John Byrne as, well… pretty much as the Terminator.

Gotta say I never cared for it, but the “fake skin over robot skeleton” look would be Metallo’s most identifiable look for most of the next 2 decades, due largely to it’s usage in the Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League cartoons.

Of course, as ongoing comics are wont to do, Metallo kept getting tweaked, usually in ways that called up more Terminator comparisons.

At one point, they threw the T-1000 into the mix, giving him the ability to turn his limbs into weapons.

So not into it.

Fortunately for a orange and green pimpin’ Metallo fan like myself, it looks like Geoff Johns and Gary Frank are bringing back the classic Metallo look for Superman: Secret Origins.

Now that’s an updated look I can get behind. Let’s try to keep it for awhile please.

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John Byrne + Man-Thing + Captain America

By admin | Published May 4, 2010

Excelsior.

From the same seller with the JR JR Iron Man piece below, this sketch was just too good NOT to post.

Getting a little bit more attention, but deserving. What a collection of characters. I mean, it’s not everyday you get the chance to own a piece of original art featuring VICTORIUS.

I love how pathetic the Thing looks in the sketch – like a giant crying rock baby. Make sure to read the word bubble in the actual cover below, priceless.

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Our Neighbors to the North

By pkindlon | Published April 21, 2010

Let’s be real: Alpha Flight is the coolest hero team imaginable. They’ve got mutants; they’ve got freaks of science; they have people living an alternative lifestyle; they’ve got aliens; they’ve got spirit animals; they’ve got robots sort-of; they’ve got tumblers; they’ve got something for everyone. Everyone except the American comic-buying public who repeatedly shun the Flight like it’s Power Pack. Those fools don’t know what they’re missing. This book had real moments of greatness. This shirt emblazoned with Alpha Flight characters has nothing but moments of greatness. It’s great all day. Byrne’s finest hour.

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John Byrne’s Namor, aka Corporate Namor?!

By admin | Published March 11, 2010

It’s been established here that the Sub-Mariner rules. So cool. 

It’s amazing to think about how much he smokes other sea characters.  (Looking at you Aquaman…)

But here’s the thing. In most of our readership’s lifetime, he’s never had a successful series. This was probably the closest. John Byrne was coming off a decade on the top. Honestly, the eighties were enormous for Byrne. Imagine just owning the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Superman and brief appearances on Captain America, Batman, and the Avengers? Unstoppable. But then he came “into the 90′s” – and brought a whole lot of Miami Vice and Wall Street with him. Namor became a high powered corporate executive. Right down to the slicked back hair, this title felt odd even when it was on the newsstand. However, I did like it. There were certain arcs that really worked and I definitely was feeling the addition of the Griffin to the cast. If you are a fan of any of the collected works of Byrne, be it FF or Alpha Flight or Superman, you should check this run out. I would’ve loved to see where he would’ve gone with it, however he left after 22 issues – relatively short for the length of which Byrne ran on many of his classics.

Avengers, transitioning…

By admin | Published March 1, 2010

Changes are good. Sometimes watching changes occur, however, can be awkward.

Seeing sports teams go through rebuilding processes, not fun. 

Watching television series add new characters… not always great. 

Reading comics as they transition through creative teams and rosters… sometimes is awful. 

But sometimes, the rare occasions, it can be great. This segment of Avengers history is brought to you by the “change is good committee for a better America”.

 

The Avengers had a really strong run in the Mid-80′s. Not the most popular or critically acclaimed, but there’s a moment in Roger Stern’s epic run that can almost bring a tear to my eye. Stern and Buscema had a titanic run that was the defining series for me as far as what the Avengers were – huge, dynamic, heroic, but ultimately flawed.  There was some editorial conflict that led to Stern leaving but Buscema and inker Tom Palmer stayed on, and thank god. Loved this team, so much depth and dimension to their interpretation of the Avengers.

So on the creative side, there was a lot of movement as well. The characters had been through the ringer and by issues 298,299… there was virtually no Avengers. So , bam… Cap (then The Captain, which is a great future post) pulls together some strings and you have the most unlikely and weird Avengers team of all time: Cap, Mr. Fantastic, the Invisible Woman, Gilgamesh, and Thor. This lineup doesn’t make it 4 issues before they put the kibosh on that, considering two members were being called back to active duty with the Fantastic Four.


So I could ramble on about these issues for days, but I’ll leave it at this – great issues, Super-Novas, lead-in to John Byrne’s “strange” run on Avengers, and some absolutely great art and stories. Lava-Men, Atlantis Attacks. There’s probably not a good chance that these issues will be collected, so getting them here is a great deal.

So let me get this straight.

By morgado | Published February 5, 2010

John Byrne drew this. Yes, that John Byrne, of Alpha Flight/Superman/She Hulk/X-men/crotchety message board posts fame. Working in the classic comedy cartoon style of Don Martin, of MAD Magazine fame.

I dig both those guys. And I dig this artwork, but I dig it for what it is, know what I mean? And I definitely don’t 6500 dollars dig it. For that price you could get a full blown custom commission directly from Byrne himself.



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