One Fan's Opinion #57 : Which Brings Us to John Byrne
One Fan's Opinion #57 : Which Brings Us to John Byrne
by Erik Larson
Friday October 13, 2006
(excerpt)
Then John started writing. He wrote a story where the modern Thing met the old lumpy Thing and cured him (see "Marvel Two-In-One" #50). John took a bit of trivia about the Thing having physically changed over the years and made a story out of it. He even introduced a way of dealing with time travel that was not only novel, but made a certain amount of sense! Ben Grimm went into the past to cure himself in an earlier stage in his own development and in doing so he inadvertently created an alternate reality. That concept of time travel was one I'd utilize years later in my own work. Thanks, John!
John Byrne left the merry mutants due to a creative dispute and the details were made somewhat public. Being a hardcore Byrne victim, I naturally felt sympathy toward John and when he started writing and drawing a lengthy run on the "Fantastic Four," I rejoiced. John had a good feel for the Fantastic Four, I thought. The Thing sounded like the Thing and the others felt right as well. It helped that John was following a pretty lackluster run by another creative team certainly, but it was morethan just that - it felt right. Everything clicked.
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