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"Now, is it just me, or does that photo of the byrnester look like Harold Shipman? "

Now that you mention it !

Byrne, racist ?

Link: http://www.popcultureshock.com/features.php?id=1182" target="_blank">Byrne that cross

I'll let Peter David have the last word :

The Comedy Stylings of John Byrne

So over on the Byrne board there's a lengthy thread about the Hulk which consists, for the most part, of bashing my work on the title because, well, it's the Byrne board, so it's SOP. But what really fractured me was the following comment from John:

"Once upon a time, when a writer wanted to "do something different" s/he left the character/title being worked on, handing it over to someone who wanted to continue with the established motifs. Some time around 25 years ago this started to change. Writers like Claremont and David, as well as others, began changing the books/characters to suit their interests of the moment....It's the same old song -- the characters being made to serve the needs of the talent, instead of the talent serving the needs of the characters."

You just have to love that from the guy who, before my run on the title, was handed a character who was unmarried and transformed into a monster when he got angry, and over the course of the run he split the character in two, separating them into two individual beings, thus eliminating a dynamic that had been in place for a quarter of a century, married off the hero, and basically wrote a series of stories that were indistinguishable from "Godzilla"--dedicated scientist and his group of equally dedicated followers pursues a furious green monster he's accidentally unleashed upon the world. Stories that, in short, had nothing to do with the Hulk.

And that's not even counting what the master of lip service to authorial intent did to the Vision, turning him white and unemotional when the original Vision was neither.

That John Byrne. What a crack up.

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The "great" John Byrne on Alan Moore and Brits.

What a twat !
Nihilistic whiners, indeed.

Link: http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12516&PN=1&totPosts=51" target="_blank">Byrne

Yeah, I think I'll follow you on this. I'm loath to part with the Titan editions.

Thanks, Indigo !

I ask because I have the old Titan reprints of "Twisted Times" and "Shocking Futures".

Any previously uncollected material in "Complete Future Shocks" ?

1602 - kept hoping Gaiman would deliver but sadly, no.

Are the DC editions smaller than Titan's ?

Try Titan.
Their exchange rate is 1:1 !

Is it any good and what's it about ?

People will buy anything, even if it does not exist !!
Try the link.

Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3720968219#ebayphotohosting" target="_blank">ebay

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

Thanks, Wake.

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Link: http://hometown.aol.co.uk/tmahadeva/myhomepage/photopersonal.html" target="_blank">Dredd and Anderson