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A John Byrne Comic, written by you!!

 
 
Alex's Grandma
16:29 / 26.02.07
From Byrne Robotics;

This week I will be starting on an extra large commission, a full length comic written by one of our Forum members (who I will let identify himself, if he is so inclined). Depending on how fast he scripts the breakdowns I will be sending, I expect this project to occupy much of my time in March, so don't expect too many new commission pieces to appear until this big project is done. (There will undoubtedly be some as the scripting and lettering gets done, but not as many as you may have come to think "normal".)

Take this opportunity, too, to remind those of you with the extra-large bank accounts that such projects can be commissioned just like anything else. Since Ernie Chan seems to have gotten no flak from ^^***** for his TWO-IN-ONE commission, it would seem such a thing could even be with existing characters.)


Now I'm not sure how much he charges, but assuming you had the spare cash available, what sort of thing would you like to put the great man to work on?

I'm guessing Batman/Superman slash would cost extra, but I also suspect that at this point in his career he could be persuaded.

So, for the purposes of this thread anyway, no holds barred!
 
 
electric monk
16:54 / 26.02.07
The Slash-tastic Four!
 
 
miss wonderstarr
17:34 / 26.02.07
Amusing as it would be to see Byrne in some artistic Indecent Proposal, forced by lucre to write a queertastic Morrison-style Doom Patrol, maybe with JB himself as a robot who falls in love with Cliff Steele, I don't think I want to see anything else ever being transformed into Byrne's plasticky aesthetic where people look like shop window dummies or catalogue models.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
17:35 / 26.02.07
Surely I can't be the only person considering a TWO-IN-ONE proposal?
 
 
Billuccho!
17:36 / 26.02.07
Holy shit, that must cost a fortune.
 
 
This Sunday
17:38 / 26.02.07
Ever since I was but a wee little child, I've wanted to see a Byrne piece where a character sticks two fingers in their rubberband-mouth and stretches... and stretches... and flicks the mouth clean off, where it goes boinging around the page.

That's because the Byrne headshots joke was already done. Captain America and Hank Pym, I believe it was.

Given last years comments about Wally Wood, I'd find it more than a little amusing to suddenly find 'John Byrne's (totally respectful of original creators' intentions even though everything's been changed) Bang' on the market. Complete with detailed dirty gag strips of various characters he's linked too, calling each other by nicknames. Because, really, if Batman's going to have his sweaty batluvvin way with Clark Kent, he has to get to call him 'Supes' at least once. Only fair.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
18:05 / 26.02.07
Yes, I was thinking he could be asked to improvise on the scene in the first 'Brotherhood of Dada' story arc in which Mr Nobody talks about using Superman as a toilet, and turning Batman into an ashtray.

That kind of thinking got me banned from Byrne Robotics a while or so back though, so maybe not so good.

What I'd like to get him to draw, cash permitting, is a script about a grizzled, but still very powerful superhero who's been up in the mountains for ten or so years in a state of exile with his untold, but hard-earned, riches, his beautiful, young, naturally blonde wife and his healthy children, having left the filth of the city to raise a family in the clean air. But is forced out of retirement by a wave of wrong-headed left wing degeneracy that he just can't ignore any longer. Major ass-kicking would ensue.

Even if you're paying him, I'd imagine working with Byrne is a fairly collaborative process, what with him being a seasoned industry professional and everything. Accordingly, I like to think that between us we could come up with something very special.
 
 
penitentvandal
18:32 / 26.02.07
BATTLE OF THE FATBEARDS - let's get Byrne and Claremont back together one last time on paper, at least.
 
 
tickspeak
19:14 / 26.02.07
I heard somewhere once that Claremont likes to hire hookers to dress up as Storm and fist him. Where did I hear that? Was it here? Why on earth did I think of that in connection with this thread? Who could possibly want to imagine such a thing, much less see it realized in glorious 2-D by the greatest comics-making mind early-80s-Marvel and Britain-by-way-of-Canada have to offer?

How much for an 8-pager?
 
 
The Falcon
20:12 / 26.02.07
$20k for a full comic, anyway. The awesome thing is loads of the lepers from the colony banded together and raised $17k and got a fat refusal to do anything.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
20:23 / 26.02.07
Der Falke, you have made my week.
 
 
Spaniel
21:06 / 26.02.07
Falc, that's fucking incredible. Thank God we've got you on the inside.
 
  
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