X-Men 109 page 17 by John Byrne and Terry Austin
Artists: John Byrne (Penciller) , Terry Austin (Inker)
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DescriptionUp for your viewing disappointment and displeasure is this most inadequate piece of comic art. Four measly panels with only one of the lesser X-men on it. There is also some new guy no one had even heard about until this issue... from Canada no less! It looks like the artist felt the same way… it almost looks like he started writing regrets but changed it to regards with his signature. This sorry example came to me during the wee hours of the morning in the glowing embers of OAX 2025. It was a trade deal and the details are all a bit blurry as I was tired and sleep deprived. Several friends and I were up having ice cream and some aged Guyanese rum in the hotel lobby when this all went down. I think I might have been taken advantage of in my feeble state. The art was talked up…Wolverine this and Guardian that… I was giddy from lack of sleep and poor nutrition and then plied with rum, ice cream, the luxuriously upholstered hotel lobby furniture and the balmy Orlando weather. I didn’t have a chance. I awoke in the morning with this beside me in bed. Oh well, I guess there are worse pages to come home with.I know some of you, upon hearing my sad story, might feel pity and want to unburden me of this page. I appreciate the kind offers of mercy but this will be my cross to bear. I guess I got Byrned!! Social/Sharing |
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Ruben DaCollector 
Member Since 2008
5 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Wow, what an absolute piece of dog shit page you got Byrned with here! Look at the awful pencilling and the horrible inking! The content quality isabout as low as you can get, too, featuring not just a single team member, but probably the shittiest and least popular one of all time! And who givesa rat's ass about Canadins, much less Canadian superheroes?!? Get rid of this crap NOW!
Eddie S
Member Since 2013
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Did you hear that? My jaw just hit the floor. It sounded like SNIKT!! WOWZA
Felix Lu
Member Since 2005
2 - Posted on 1/29/2025
CRAZY last-minute deal! Congrats to you both...everyone won!
Simon Ma
Member Since 2013
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
The best at which superhero comics can do and what superhero comics can do best is very nice.
Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005
2 - Posted on 1/29/2025
I feel bad for you. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
Simon M.
Member Since 2003
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Someone wrote SNIKT on it too. What a horrendous page.
Steve Day Vich
Member Since 2007
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
I have a Byrne She-Hulk page I can trade you.
R Berman
Member Since 2018
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
An exemplary page from a seminal story. Congratulations!
Stephen F
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Hmmmm, I believe i had some of that El Dorado rum and didn't come home with anything THIS nice! Congrats, a spectacular page!!
Abraham Martinez
Member Since 2014
2 - Posted on 1/29/2025
I'm at a loss of words, as a Byrne and Alpha Flight fan this gets no better.
Rob Stolzer
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Ah, the old artwork of shame story. I remember reading about an Italian collector waking up next to a Titian painting in 1570. He certainly had some explaining to do to his wife.
Big congrats my friend!
Gene Park
Member Since 2004
4 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Congrats, Major Maple Leaf! What an amazing page, one of the best interiors in the entire Byrne run - A+ quality, just sublime!
Rick W
Member Since 2017
3 - Posted on 1/29/2025
I've heard of Coyote ugly, but Wolverine ugly is just plain ridiculous ;)
Jason D'Ambrosio
Member Since 2018
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Wow Jeff! Amazing page and one I never thought would permanently leave NY! Congratulations my friend!
Zaddick L
Member Since 2006
2 - Posted on 1/29/2025
This should be a lesson to all that Sake and Guyanese rum do not mix. I feel for you and hate to see a OAX neighbor get burned like this, I’d give you a great Jughead story in trade to get you out of this mess. But seriously, this is such a classic page, yeah that 3rd panel is worth the price of admission, but also love that lounging on a tree Wolverine in the top panel. Fun Stuff!
Paul Brzegowy
Member Since 2010
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
This is a great piece to wake up to. You can see it is early Byrne since Wolverine has the influence of Dave Cockrum at this point but his appearance changes over the later run by Byrne and Austin.
Patrick R
Member Since 2017
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
This is a great page from a fantastic X-Men issue. Congrats of a big OAX weekend.
Kavi H
Member Since 2018
3 - Posted on 1/29/2025
it's alright but it's no Tradd Moore...
*ahem*
HOLY MOLY. What happens in the Doubletree Orlando Hotel Lobby after dark usually stays there, except at OAX, where the victims share their trauma on CAF!
Huge congrats man, and great seeing you at OAX, until next time!
André .
Member Since 2015
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
There were too many light night OAX shenanigans. You probably have a case against Bill and CAF - get justice!!!
T J
Member Since 2015
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
The indignity! Barely any Wolverine. Wow, what a page. What a trade too I'm sure. Congrats!
Ray Cuthbert
Member Since 2003
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Congratulations on getting this page. That storyline was interesting to those of us North of the Border!
Johnny M
Member Since 2014
Forum Moderator
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
It sounds like you've learned a valuable lesson. I hope that everytime you look at this garbage page, you remember to never mix alcohol and comic art.
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
You're going to burn the page? Send it my way for safe keeping, you pyromaniac....Did you say Byrned? Thats not even English. It's what my mother used to call a 'makey-up' word.
glen gold
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
So happy you've had enough therapy you can process your shame with us this way. Can't wait for the guy on the other side of the trade to take those kidneys off the ice and see how much rum is still coursing through them.
Mark Levy
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Wowza!! Bill Cox and team should provide you a free trip net time - great commercial for OAX!
Luca Baldi
Member Since 2008
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Wwwwwwwwwwoooooooooowwwwwww!!!' this art is the essence of everything that can want an XFAN !!!! I HATE YOU!!! 😀😀😀😆
Phill R
Member Since 2010
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
I don't even have a remarkable tongue and cheek comment, this page is pure BADASS!!
Tom Coker
Member Since 2005
2 - Posted on 1/29/2025
As Gene said, one of the very best pages from the whole Byrne/Austin run!!!
Romain Verlier
Member Since 2009
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Wow wow wow i feel your pain man !!
Huge sorry ...this OAX thing seems to be really disappointing..thanks for sharing your sad story so we can avoid being byrned like that !!
Joe Murray
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Absolute tops, Jimmie Boy vs. Logan making X-Men history, so memorable just love it, huge congrats!!
Peter Sullivan
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
I had another look (as you do) and realised why Wolverine is so pissed off. The secret is revealed in panel 3. Drum roll, please. Some joker has scrawled his name all over his left thigh.
DC's Showcase
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
Hilarious! Who says you're not a good writer? Oh, page isn't half bad either :)
John C
Member Since 2014
1 - Posted on 1/29/2025
What was the Guardian thinking? You can't be casually throwing around "pipsqueak" up here in the North. He keeps that up and they are gonna take away his Triangle Canadian Tire card.
Byron B
Member Since 2018
1 - Posted on 1/30/2025
Is this page the cause for the ComicArtFans website crashing. I had to use the app instead to come see it. Amazing page. Next level. Thanks for sharing.
Will Tervay
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 1/30/2025
I'm just glad you found a sliver of appreciation and sympathy for this monstrosity and didn't kick it out of bed when you woke up next to it. Hopefully, over time, you will slowly grow to appreciate and accept it. Best of luck... it won't be easy. :😜
J. Sid
Member Since 2004
1 - Posted on 1/30/2025
Claws out, "Snikt" and a first appearance page.... I'm afraid to ask the number on this one.
I'm old school though. For me the selling point is simply that it's a fantastic A+ scene. Congrats!
Dino Mauricio
Member Since 2009
2 - Posted on 1/30/2025
Amazing page, got my vote for best OAX pick-up!
Lee Harmon
Member Since 2020
1 - Posted on 1/30/2025
This piece of history is in Canada where it always belonged.
Congratulations my friend!
JN 80
Member Since 2016
1 - Posted on 1/31/2025
My GOODNESS. Prime Alpha flight/xmen GOODNESS. Doesn't get much better with weapon Alpha vs Wolverine
Sam 06
Member Since 2011
1 - Posted on 1/31/2025
A great action page from an excellent run! Congratulations
John Voytek
Member Since 2008
1 - Posted on 1/31/2025
Hey Jeff...sorry I'm late to the $hit$how! I saw this page at OAX, but passed on looking at it, as i didn't want to be traumatized by the price tag. I really feel for you and how heavy your burden of shame must be. Well, if you could only have one page from what is arguably the most memorable run in men in tights history, this may be the one. Huge congratulations my friend! I wish that I had stayed up by the fire to watch this deal go down...a part of OAX history, that we'll be talking about for a long time!
E DLS
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 2/1/2025
I suppose it's only fitting that this page end up with a Canadian. Unfortunately I don't drink. But I suppose it's never too late to start. Now what kind of rum was that again? I can bring by a case of it and we can talk about another trade. Oh, and awesome write up by the way.
Daren Domina
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 2/1/2025
A remarkable and super memorable page. Congratulations on your good fortune and judgment to acquire this!
Reggie C.
Member Since 2005
1 - Posted on 2/1/2025
Ugh, can't you post something that isn't complete waste of space! But joking aside, great page by the amazing John Byrne and probably the best description I have read on this site. Thanks for sharing.
Kin Wong
Member Since 2007
1 - Posted on 2/2/2025
The writeup is better than the art. Thanks for sharing the story and warning, so now we know to not mix art and liquor (I hope you also checked that the page wasn't drenched in anything, in case there was any literal mixing).
Ian Saint
Member Since 2021
1 - Posted on 2/7/2025
Rolling over to this in bed. Priceless! Love the story lol.
A N H
Member Since 2018
1 - Posted on 2/9/2025
Gorgeous Byrne page! If I were to choose a Byrne page from any X-men book, a page from #109 might be right at the top. What more could you want content wise.
Dave W
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 2/10/2025
What a terrible burden to carry, such misery and pain are sure to follow you as the owner of this piece going forward. My sincerest condolences and sympathies.
Timothy Finney
Member Since 2006
1 - Posted on 2/11/2025
I hear time heals most wounds and hangovers, so I suppose this Captain Canuck page might grow on you if you leave it in your collection long enough. And it fits well enough with the "buy Canadian" movement in your country at the moment. C'est la vie!
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