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Y’all have seen the Neal Adams thread, right? It’s pretty famous.
In brief: JB sounds off about sloppy pencils, using something some inker dude possibly once said to him about Neal Adams as an ‘example’.
Then: Neal Adams signs up to the forum, to put him straight. In a stately, dignified, ‘think what you’re doing to your reputation here, John’ kind of way. Byrne flusters, doesn’t apologise, tries to justify what he said. Neal Adams repeats his points, for the hard of thinking. A little more forceful.
By now, a hundred wormy JBF sycophants don’t know quite what to say, because, well, it’s Neal fucking Adams, man. Bizarrely, the conversation drifts onto the price of burgers today. Then some genius decides to post a few scans of Neal Adams’ pencils. The entire JBF suddenly realises how they’ve all been pissing their lives away, worshipping a decidedly second-string ‘talent.’
Well, okay, not that last bit, not quite. But all the ‘John-you’re-being-eaten-by-your-forum’ stuff, all that rings absolutely 100% true. In the movie of that thread, Neal Adams would be played by Sam Elliot. He’s that cool. |
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