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Dan Green's chaotic ink line was perfect for Byrne's BOTD run.
This one is interesting in that while he tried to emulate Austin's inks as much as possible, you can see hints of Byrne's own style of inks in this piece.
Came here to say this. This single page is historical for several reasons, and meta is one of them. If Byrne didn't slip in the D'Bari at the bottom of this page, the Phoenix Saga would not have ended with her death, and the X-Men (hell, comics in general) would not have been the same today.
Worth noting that that the figures are all full-Byrne inks. Keith Willams only inked the backgrounds.
Oops, I shoudl have read my own post comment. I already said the same thing a few years ago!
If I can toot my own horn for a sec, Byrne told me on his board that this was his favorite page of the Blood and Trenches run.
"I could never figure out how Byrne created the late 80's era "dot matrix" pattern."
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You figured it out without even knowing it! Byrne created this effect using a 1980s Macintosh. Probably printed it out on a dot matrix printer, to boot!
It's one of the first uses of computer graphics in mainstream comics, in fact.
I may have an explanation for the "Heyn" credit here.
In his first issue of FF#232, Terry Austin was slated to be the inker. But then Austin backed out for some reason, and Byrne ended up inking himself. However, the credit box for the issue was already laid out at that point, including a separate inker credit. Thus Bjorn Heyn was born to fill in the gap.
I've seen Byrne's pencils on the Lost Generation covers, and on every one, he signed it "Byrne + " , leaving space in the circle for Milgrom to sign it. I suspect it's the same situation - for some reason Milgrom didn't ink the cover after all, so he brought back Mr Heyn to fill in the rest of the circle.
Here's another interesting point - by the 90's, Byrne tended to ink over breakdowns, as he had gotten good enough with detailed inks that he realized that he was wasting time doing tight pencils if he was able to draw in details directly in ink, anyway. He would only do this when he knew he was inking himself ahead of time, and would only do full pencils when he knew that someone else is going to ink it.
I've detected a slight visual difference in the result when Byrne inks himself over breakdowns versus full pencils, and I detect that the latter probably happened here - I bet he fully pencilled this expecting Milgrom to ink it, instead of relying on the inks to do most of the work as usual.
Good Lord. This is such a fine page. I still hope to own an OMAC page one day, but this has to be one of the best!
The third panel shows Chris Claremont spoiling Byrne's storytelling. Clearly the wheelchair coming in off-panel was meant to have the reader assume that it was Xavier, with the reveal that it's actually Magneto in the next panel. But Claremont has Kate exclaim "Magneto!" so the whole point of the setup was lost.
You DO realize that this is the first comic page of Byrne EVER drawing She-Hulk, right?????
What a valuable find!!!
It should be noted that the bottom panel is NOT by Byrne, I believe it's Cockrum. The original panel by Byrne was Thor standing and striking a pose, but Shooter nixed it for not being dramatic enough.
Also, this is not the first time that Byrne drew Wolverine. Marvel Team Up #54 came out before this.
Not sure how much of Wolverine here is really Byrne. The face is pure Cockrum. Byrne said that he drew Wolverine with the mask on. In fact, if you look closely enough, you'll see the pencil lines of Wolverine's mask under his nose.
Misty's face was redrawn by Romita's Raiders in the 1st, 4th, and 6th panels.
More proof that Byrne was planning on shrinking down Cyclops' visor to the original configuration.
Yep, that was his decision. So not only did he draw this piece for me, in a way he also "wrote" it!
His reasonining is detailed in this thread - https://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=18359&KW=%22and+still+champion%22
