Byrne on Moore & Brits

[DavidXBrunt]

Just visited Barbelith.com and there's a message for Dave Farebee saying if you want to join they won't ban you like Byrne did. I expect the same extends for everyone. Though you'd better REALLY like Morrison...

[DavidXBrunt]

Oh and Matt...how many minutes before someone mentions a red jumper in relation to your last post?

[Trout]

I made the mistake of starting to read bits of that board and was stuck there bloody forever.
It will damage your mind, people.

Also, David Brunt is officially - I have decreed it - a terribly nice man.
What kind of a wanker killfiles someone like him?

Byrne makes me feel bad about the human race.

- Trout

[Al_Ewing]

I've noticed that most of the art droids I know revere Byrne as an artist. However as a writAH (ay say cheps ay'm a writAH) ay find him a witless boor, my deah.

Is this a standard dichotomy? How much slack are we prepared to cut the man based on his various talents?

[Matt Timson]

Ah yes- red jumper syndrome*.  There's a whole bunch of that on the Marvelman thread, isn't there?  I'm expecting more flak over my use of the word 'actually', to be honest...




*for those of you who can't be bothered to look, red jumper syndrome is when somebody gets offended on behalf of somebody else.  Naturally, it's a Byrne-ism and doesn't apply to the Byrnester himself getting all bent out of shape over the fact that Alan Moore VIOLATED the CORE CONCEPT of Marvelman.

[Floyd-the-k]

jamesm: Byrne knows the answer. Gay people are born gay. There's no such thing as bisexuals.

[Will I. Cooling]

jamesm: Byrne knows the answer. Gay people are born gay. There's no such thing as bisexuals.

Man, that Byrne's on the money again isn't he (Rolls eyes).

The sad thing with JB is that he used to actually you know be good. He also used to speak some sense, I remember reading an editorial by him in MoS where he basically made the staggeringly intelligent point that each generation, indeed each person has a different introduction to an iconic character and so has a different 'take' on the character. Of course his constant wittering about the 'core concept' contradicts this, but what you going to do?

And I actually own an Eagle Comic reprint of the Byrne Dredd. Its not that bad, although Dredd is rather thin and scrawny.

Will

[House of Usher]

I just bought a DC $1.00 80-page giant comic, post-Infinite-Crisis-shambles, that has a story with John Byrne pencils. It looks good. If only he could just stick to drawing nice pictures and stop sounding off all this guff about stuff he knows nothing about. You know, politics and the like.

[Wils]

Oh and his faces don't look the same. He said so.

John Byrne - The Jamiroquai of comic art!

[Floyd-the-k]

Do Jamiroquai's faces all look the same?

[Darryl]

Please say this is someone off here - it will be nice to see if the mighty JB answers........

Link: http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13282&PN=1&totPosts=0" target="_blank">ouch......

[DavidXBrunt]

Have you read his 'vacation' thread yet?

[abc warrior]

as per "tradition", the JBForum will be "read-only".

Clearly, he doesn't trust his mods to do the necessary while he's on vacation.
He must watch that board like a hawk !

[Misanthrope]

"Do Jamiroquai's faces all look the same?"

I think wils was referring to the fact that Jamiroquai has made a very successful career marketing the same song over and over again.

[Floyd-the-k]

Curse you DxB, your call to read the Vacation thread dragged me back.
  I notice that the Incredibles could have been a good movie if only they'd listened to JB

Link: http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13209&PN=2&TPN=1" target="_blank">First remove all the jokes....