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Shit. I thought Marvel had used Dr. Doom's time machine to trap Byrne in the past, so all he could do was hump retro-continuity.
Ah well, you know he'll be distracted by a passing sparrow or something and leave the book mid-plot-line. Like he always does.
What was the last good thing he did? First few issues of Namor looked good, with all the Duo-tone, until you realise it had no plot, and Byrne's idea of an "Environmental" super-hero was a multi-national corperate head running oil tankers, and the badguys were the eco-terrorists. Kind of like his Iron Man, where the Unions were throwing molotovs from pickup trucks.
She-Hulk at least was funny, at least his first series, and didn't he erase Gerber's run from continuity? There was some stuff there I liked- seeing Howard and Bev again, the Church of Organism, the Baloneyverse, the Critic, the return of Dr. Angst and his Merry Misanthropes (the Black Hole SUCKS!), and Nosferata. Eh, Next Men was fucking limp. It was like he finally had artistic freedom, but couldn't come up with anything new to do with original characters.
I still reckon Superman, Alpha Flight, and the Bill Mantlo-written Fantastic Four issues were his career peaks, and the rest is reverb. |
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