Fantastic Four 256 JOHN BYRNE FULL-TEAM SPLASH
Artists: John Byrne (Penciller) , Glynis Wein (Colorist) , Andrew Allen (Colorist) , John Byrne (Inker)
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DescriptionOh, all right, OA hobby. If you keep dangling even 2nd-tier vintage Byrne Splash Pages in front of me, I'll eventually find a way to pull the trigger.While very, very impressive in person, this is, of course, from a collecting perspective, still not a 'perfect' Byrne FF splash page. The entire team has its collective backs to the reader, the better to show off the 'Negative Zone Baxter Building' which will shortly bring them home. For that matter, the page gets additional demerits for not being executed fully in drawing negative space. JB clearly started, realized what a pain it was going to be to draw it that way, and instead left it to the Bullpen to generate a 'negative stat' (reversing the blacks and whites on a photocopy) and patch together all story elements on another page. Can you blame him? I've generated a photoshop version of what that long-discarded stat-page might have looked like. I've found two versions of the printed version of the page, and it's astounding how much detail is lost. The printing technology for comics back then was just garbage. Lastly, printed out a high-rez version of the Photoshop file to hand-color with Copic markers. Not too bad. Social/Sharing |
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Jeffrey Wedding 
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 6/17/2022
As the old saying goes "A Byrne splash in the hand is worth two in the bush." Or something like that.
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 6/17/2022
The FF, they look like microscopic astronauts travelling into the void weird energy with so many Kirby dots!
Andrew Allen
Member Since 2007
1 - Posted on 6/25/2022
Marcus Wai wrote:
The FF, they look like microscopic astronauts travelling into the void weird energy with so many Kirby dots!
'Microscopic Astronauts?' That sounds like a good idea for a comic book, or even a range of toys! Someone oughtta get on that idea!
P A
Member Since 2013
Posted on 6/17/2022
Incredible Byrne splash! Now this is what the Negative Zone should look like! Congrats man!
J. Sid
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 6/17/2022
Cool page.... and I'm digging your Copic version, too!
Tony B.
Member Since 2020
Posted on 6/22/2022
Cool splash. Love the thick black outlines on the characters, especially the Torch's wake.
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