#575349 - 07/28/10 04:15 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Troy Lightbourne]
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Even after JB used quotes around the word realistic (which shouldn't be too hard for anyone without an agenda to interpret the meaning of...), the person he's debating with is running on all cylinders that JB was REALLY trying to be ACTUALLY realistic.
Regardless of the subtleties surrounding Byrne's use of quotation marks, Byrne's initial response is to claim that the guy had never read Next Men. When the Bob Walsh clearly proves that he did, Byrne throws a hissy fit that serves really only to embarrass himself and expose how ill-prepared he was for this guy to respond to his response. Really, Byrne... crying "Boring" over and over? Bad form, Old Man. Nah. Apparently just a guy apparently bored about individuals missing plot elements, then continued boredom when said individuals cannot admit about missing (or misrepresenting) those plot elements & instead pretends the plot elements never existed...at least as it appears in the comic books themselves. Like I said, sometimes things aren't as complicated as some TRY to make them out to be.
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#575350 - 07/28/10 04:18 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Lawson]
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In this case, when somebody says they want to kill themselves, it's ridiculous to think they've got problems. Well, according to Paul.But the only thing keeping Paul going is Byrne's STAR TREK: LEONARD MCCOY, FRONTIER DOCTOR mini-series. Damn it, Lawson! I'm a fanatic! Not Detractor!
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#575351 - 07/28/10 04:19 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Lawson]
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Heh!
Here is Byrne, describing his Dr. McCoy spinoff project.
JB: It's set between the end of the original series and the beginning of the first movie. (Bones has his beard in this series!) My hope is that anyone who might be interested in what McCoy was up to in those “missing” years would pick this one up and become hooked.
I like Trek as much as the next guy, but I've never wondered what McCoy was up to in those "missing" years. Other than Byrne, did anyone care?
OK. Just checked. The Beat says about 6,000 people are buying it. Ouch! So someone other than JB does care?
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#575352 - 07/28/10 04:23 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Lawson]
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Edited by Joe Lee (07/29/10 12:03 PM)
Edit Reason: deleted by author, sorry
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#575353 - 07/28/10 04:25 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Paul W. Sondersted, Jr.]
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Nah. Apparently just a guy apparently bored about individuals missing plot elements, then continued boredom when said individuals cannot admit about missing (or misrepresenting) those plot elements & instead pretends the plot elements never existed...at least as it appears in the comic books themselves. The poster said, "I know Danny sought them out because he had read one of their comics and they shamelessly exploited the situation" before Byrne's "boring, boring, boring" response, Paul. So no, he is not pretending the plot element never existed. You are, ironically, misrepresenting the situation. So someone other than JB does care? Enough people to qualify, in Byrne's eyes, as "a vanity project." After all, that's how he described Savage Dragon, which sells roughly the same numbers.
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#575354 - 07/28/10 04:30 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Paul W. Sondersted, Jr.]
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So someone other than JB does care? Yep. Other than Byrne, 5,999 people. Or roughly the same number of people as have been hit by lightning in the United States since World War Two ended.
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#575355 - 07/28/10 04:33 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Lawson]
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Well, to be fair, we don't know if it's 6,000 people. All we know is it's six thousand copies being sold. Could be six-hundred guys each buying 10 copies, or sixty guys all buying 100 copies, could even be six guys buying a thousand copies each...
Edited by Joe Lee (07/28/10 04:36 PM)
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#575356 - 07/28/10 04:35 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Joe Lee]
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Could be sixty guys all buying 100 copies, could be six guys buying a thousand copies each... Paul and Mike O. each are buying 3,000 copies.
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#575358 - 07/28/10 04:40 PM
Re: Q for JB
[Re: Lawson]
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I wonder how many commissions you would have to do to buy 6,000 copies of your own comics?
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#575359 - 07/28/10 04:42 PM
Re: Q for JB
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Enough people to qualify, in Byrne's eyes, as "a vanity project." After all, that's how he described Savage Dragon, which sells roughly the same numbers. Aha! Yes. Here's John Byrne in 2008: "If, as I have often heard, Erik Larsen is sufficiently wealthy that he can continue SAVAGE DRAGON purely as a vanity project, then I say more power to him. I, despite legends to the contrary, am not that rich."Most recent issue of SAVAGE DRAGON, in May, sold 5,411 copies. Most recent issue of LEONARD MCCOY: FRONTIER DOCTOR, in May, sold 6,450 copies. Byrne officially has entered vanity project territory. And bear in mind that Larsen is working on a project that he created, that he owns. Whereas Byrne is doing fan fiction on a canceled Paramount TV series from the 1960s.
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