Byrne on Moore & Brits

[abc warrior]

So much for Byrne's stance on Lost Girls !http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g243/zombiejohnfl/3p0.jpg">

[Quirkafleeg]

Noooo!!! My eyes! My eyes!

[Wils]

Now *this* post (on the For Shame, John Byrne! thread) has garnered from me the biggest laugh at one of his quotes to date, even though he himself thinks he's destroyed the bloke asking the question with his usual cuntish sarcasm:

Why don't you use your pool, JB?


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Because I live alone, Mike. What's the first rule of swimming?

"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."
"...I live alone..."

I wonder why that is?

[johnnystress]

That picture is just wrong


C3P0 just isnt that way inclined if you know what I mean... ding a ling a ling

[scutfink]

Also, being a Droid, he has no genetalia.

What is she doing down there?

[Funt Solo]

Ah - I know - C3PO is always getting blown...



...apart and then repaired.  She's simply re-attaching his legs - something which she feels comfortable doing in the nude because there's no need to have inhibitions around droids, especially gay ones.

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Did the Golden Byrne really draw that?

[House of Usher]

If I could draw, I would've drawn that, and more besides. But I wouln't have got all huffy and sneering about Alan Moore's 'Lost Girls'. Unless I just had an irrational dislike of Alan Moore and his work, like I envied his success or fame, or something.

[abc warrior]

"Did the Golden Byrne really draw that?"

Apparently, according to one of the guys at CBR.

[abc warrior]

Byrne's shifted his attention to Gaiman, now :

When working with existing "franchises", any good writer will return to the source material from time to time, to see if s/he can divine from that work something that might have been missed before. This is true whether the work is good, bad, or indifferent.

The best place to start, however, no matter what the context, is not by saying "the creator didn't get it right". That's the worst kind of hubris. I have been pilloried for my work on Superman, Spider-Man, Doom Patrol, and in the early days even FF and X-Men, yet I have never once said the creators of those series/characters "didn't get it right". It disgusts me not only to read Gaiman saying this -- about JACK KIRBY of all people! -- but to see the cartwheels people are willing to turn in order to make his words seem other than what they are. Apparently, dissing one of the greatest talents this industry has produced is okay, as long as you're on the Approved List.

Next, how Eisner screwed up the Spirit, and Lee and Ditko on Spider-Man --- what the heck were they thinking??

Link: http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12952&PN=2&TPN=1" target="_blank">Byrne on Gaiman

[Dark Jimbo]

Apparently, dissing one of the greatest talents this industry has produced is okay, as long as you're on the Approved List.

Hahahahahahahaha.... oh dear god, the irony. You couldn't make that up. As he typed those words, did he not think about what he was doing to Alan Moore and Neil Gaiman and think 'hang on...'

He really is a hypocrite of the highest order.

[Lobo Baggins]

He really is a hypocrite of the highest order.

He also states that he and Alan Davies seem to share the same philosophy...

Yikes!

This dissing of other creators is nothing new with Byrne, by the way - a couple of years ago he seems to have had a lengthy tirade against Peter David on his message board, before Peter David turned up and told him to stop being such a cunt (or words to that effect).

Oh, and Kirby's 'The Immortals' looks like he knocked the whole thing out in an afternoon - not his best work by a long chalk.

[House of Usher]

Fuss. About. Nothing.

John Byrne sure loves an argument, doesn't he? You'd think he had plenty to fill his time what with drawing comics, but apprently he's got hours spare to read the fans' reactions when he slags off Neil Gaiman for daring to criticize the workmanlike output of Jack Kirby in the 1970s, as if Jack Kirby were some sort of sacred cow.

Neil Gaiman happens to be working on a revival of Jack Kirby's The Eternals (like I give a shit...) and as part of the publicity to promote that, he has offered a comment on how his version of The Eternals is different from Kirby's original. If this thing didn't have to be promoted, I doubt Gaiman would have spoken at all, and yet John Byrne takes umbrage as if Neil Gaiman has gone out of his way to be disrespectful to Jack Kirby.

Manufactured outrage, is what it is.

[Funt Solo]

I'm just killing the italics on Firefox.  Move along.  Nothing to see here.

[Eric Plumrose]

JB's argument seems to boil down to the fact that only a creator is capable of critiquing his or her own work.

[Quirkafleeg]

Christ the Byrne slags Kirby off for something IN THE SAME THREAD! The red mist! Must think calm...