Byrne, Austin & Claremont - the all-time comics superteam

@lukeskywalker6809

5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely true.

@bra5081

5 жыл бұрын

@@lukeskywalker6809 I agree!

@bigmacdaddy1234

4 жыл бұрын

Buscema and Chan were great too.

@dougg1075

4 жыл бұрын

It’s the truth plain and simple. He and Austin were like a super art organism .

@Evan.Arapis

4 жыл бұрын

@@bigmacdaddy1234 Yeah, Big John Buscema was GREAT ! He's the reason I fell in love with the FF when I was a kid in Greece..

I still think his run on Fantastic Four is one of the best runs EVER ! And I agree 100% on his assessment of the "Dark Phoenix" movie

I've been saying the same thing about all the X-men movies that Byrne put out there in this interview: they need to think long term and build up stories. Dark Pheonix should happen over at least three movies and have a tiny bit more to do with the source material besides a red head named Jean becomes all powerful and dangerous. Beyond that, there is almost nothing recognizable about what they are doing. MCU has shown they can think about long term stories, and look how well that has worked for them. X-men is just throwing characters and stories against the wall to see what sticks.

@KTF0

5 жыл бұрын

100% agree. Plus before Dark Phoenix there was Phoenix, the green and yellow one. You can't just gloss over that. Also, I'm tired of TV and films not calling the Hellfire Club, the mfing Hellfire Club! That's their name and it sounds bad ass.

@coolbeans9201

5 жыл бұрын

Too true if Kevin Feige knows what's good for him he'll get John Byrne on board in one way or another if they develop Xmen and Fantastic 4 into the MCU.

@bra5081

5 жыл бұрын

Yes no need to be awesome John Byrne to figure out what's wrong about the X-men movies ;)

@jimodonnelly7762

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, for me, most of the X-films have been unwatchable. It's the old story of Hollywood arrogance; you know, "well, they write comic books, but WE write MOTION PICTURES. WE know how to tell a story better than THEY do." And thus, they create a pile of dogcrap.

@adamsmith8637

5 жыл бұрын

I agree partially with you. But i think what happened with Fox is that back when the first X- Men movie was being produced the company nor the industry knew what was going to happen in terms of the CBM craze. No one up until that point knew how to make a serious grounded CBM. I mean you had Blade but that was a graphic novel type of comic. Nobody was even thinking of the possibility of an interconnected cinematic universe. Nobody expected X-Men to be as big of a hit as it turned out to be. So the studio never thought about connecting the films until X-3. But by that time it was like "lets keep popping out these movies and make as much as we possibly can

John Byrne is the goat

Look at this glorious art. Not just the characters, but the backgrounds and architecture as well. You don't see it anymore, you don't see anything this detailed and awesome. Same goes for the stories too.

John Bryne's art is priceless. He was the best artist of my generation and he's still my top favorite artist to date.

@andrewforte3852

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget George Perez and Marv Wolfman with New Teen Titans.

@shonallen5458

5 жыл бұрын

@@andrewforte3852 I've met George Perez, back in the day at comic book convention. He's really a cool guy! I had him checking out my drawings; nervous as hell cause George is pne of the best artist, I've grown to love(no homo).

@shonallen5458

5 жыл бұрын

Damn, typo; no autocorrect!

@palsunstar

5 жыл бұрын

Argh! Fix the typo! Fix the typo! Please!

He was a phenomenal artist and writer. He's the only creator that could surpass what Lee and Kirby did on the Fantastic Four.

@frantzkenol6720

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn’t say surpass but rather live up to. Which is a huge compliment.

@RX552VBK

4 жыл бұрын

Summertime Blooz agreed. I’m also a Star Trek purist and with his IDW run with the property it reminded me why I loved Trek (TOS especially).

Byrne, along with George Pérez, are my favorite storytellers! Thanks, Mike, for the interviews!

@joejam070

5 жыл бұрын

Joel Gerald Kydd I hope you have Action comics 600 that's in my world is a super classic issue because you get both George and John working together as artist.

@bkwalkabout

5 жыл бұрын

@@joejam070 AC 600 is in one of my long boxes somewhere... 😉

@bigmacdaddy1234

4 жыл бұрын

Perez was a Byrne copycat wannabe. He does not belong in the same room with JB.

@RX552VBK

4 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Byrne, Perez, Kirby, Grell and Adams all are the founders of my earliest love of comics/story.

@RX552VBK

4 жыл бұрын

mac daddy no even close to truth. In no regard was Perez a copy cat. And artists are influenced by other artists they admire including Maestro Byrne.

Byrne, Austin, and Claremount were the masters! I remember me and a friend buying everything they did. I'm sad I don't have any of those comics today. Bryne's art style was the best to me; and his X-Men were awesome. The Dark Phoenix saga is epic and very tragic. He's right, the movies could never capture what he did.

@roguetrooper5288

2 жыл бұрын

Claremount is overrated, the way he wasted pages recapping the previous issue was just dumbfounding!

@MichaelDG2023

Жыл бұрын

Claremont is harder for me to enjoy today but he was magic when I was a kid

Years ago when Byrne was doing Next Men he was doing a signing at Forbidden Planet. I got issue #2 signed by him which had come out that week. I think I told him that his Superman's version was my favorite. He was the first of many comic book creators that I have met towards the years. He wasnt a disappointment like some others. He was kind to me.

@KTF0

5 жыл бұрын

I've met him at a convention and he was pretty cool. It's weird to see his reputation to be quite the opposite.

@gabrielp9646

5 жыл бұрын

@Tigre Blanco At this day and age, I would be surprised if a public figure didn´t had a group of haters. If you´re a conservative, the SJWs are going to attack you. If you are left winged, a bunch of anti-feminist are going to hate you. If you like old school stuff some people are going to say you´re a nostalgic manchild, and if you like modern stuff some people are going to say you´re dumb, because "things today are way worst than when I was a kid..." The internet has literally turned the world into a giant highschool, full of innsecure teenagers :S:S

Please let this new X-Men story come out! I would love to see Byrne do his own take on the characters!

@jalderink

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, yes, 1000 times, YES! Marvel, shut up and take my money!

@bra5081

5 жыл бұрын

@@jalderink I remember his run on X-men the lost years or something, it was excellent. Plus, he hasn't done anything for Marvel in ages, they would be quite an event. It's not like they can't afford to edit one more series?

@bra5081

5 жыл бұрын

We should start an online petition :)

@PeterPalmiotti

5 жыл бұрын

I'd buy it, and make my friends (Who didn't grow up on Byrne check it out too!)

@andys8483

5 жыл бұрын

Defo to that. His X-Men run was phenomenal & i would ❤ to see more please.

That Count Nefaria vs. The Avengers saga was also epic!

@MegaNiteCat

5 жыл бұрын

Uhh, like, YEAH!!!!!

John Byrne helped create my favorite X-Man, Kitty Pryde. Just for that alone I want to shake his hand and thank him.

@ptcarbonproductions2013

5 жыл бұрын

Plus he drew her better than anyone else.

@uphilliceskater

5 жыл бұрын

Alan Davis drew her best.

@bra5081

5 жыл бұрын

@@ptcarbonproductions2013 He drew everyone better than anyone else.

@EarthsGeomancer

3 жыл бұрын

@@ptcarbonproductions2013 Nah, Jim Lee's art is way better. Sorry, not sorry.

@ptcarbonproductions2013

3 жыл бұрын

@@EarthsGeomancer Let's agree to disagree.

John Byrne drew one of my top favorite versions of Wolverine. EDIT: Shame on me for forgetting this. Years before I got sucked up into the world of Claremont & Byrne's X-Men, at age 11 I was unknowingly bitten by the Byrne bug with Superman/Batman: Generations. Seeing a world where the characters actually got older through the decades and passed their down mantles blew. My. Mind. And still friggin' does today. I think it's high time I go back and finally finish reading that story. Criminally underrated and deserves getting as much mention as Dark Knight Returns in terms of epic scale! I also wonder what voices & personalities John preferred for the X-Men. Hard to imagine Logan not saying things like 'bub', 'flamin'', 'blasted', etc. But I'd like to believe he still would, there's just some other elements to how he'd perceive his speech and so on.

@bigmacdaddy1234

4 жыл бұрын

'One of my top favorite version of Wolverine.." ? Dude he drew the best version of Wolverine. Period.

Great interview. A friend and I were actually invited to his house and studio years ago. We'll never forget it. He's a stand-up guy, really knows his craft, and so funny!

"Alpha Flight" - greatest comic book. Thanks, John.

The Dark Phoenix saga was way to epic to put on screen in one movie. It needed the same build up that Infinity War had. I mean come on, no Lilandra, no Imperial Guard.... Just too epic!

@agentofchaos7456

5 жыл бұрын

No, it didn’t. The build-up to Infinity War is basically a six year tease at a big bad.

@agentofchaos7456

5 жыл бұрын

Also, Infinity War left out Lady Death and Adam Warlock. Definitely not something you want Dark Phoenix to be in regards as an adaptation.

@89five3five

5 жыл бұрын

Well Marvel owns all mutants now. Lest see how they handle the X-men in the MCU

@SIKE01

3 жыл бұрын

Angie Everhart as Jean Grey in the first X-MEN movie, paired with the original Cyclops Jim Caviezel.

I think about his phenomenal She Hulk run, Superman and Fantastic Four. Every casual reader or moviegoer I know that enjoys Deadpool I always try and get them to check out his She Hulk, but they never do. Their loss really

@Craudio171

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly and they still think Deadpool is the most original thing ever made in comic books!

@gabrielp9646

5 жыл бұрын

@Taylor Chance 100%

@gabrielp9646

5 жыл бұрын

@@Craudio171 Nothing is original in comicbooks, everything comes from the pulp fiction novels of the 20s, and even before that.

Iron Fist. That's the first character I remember where his art caught my eye.

@Chuckqnit

5 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@NimbleArt

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

Been waiting on this one for a while!! Love it!!

@madwolfdrawing

5 жыл бұрын

Thabk you for all the awesome artists videos you post :D nice to see you here

@VZAAGE

5 жыл бұрын

@@madwolfdrawing Thanks for the love, man. Much appreciated.

Yes Marvel comics please publish Byrnes new xmen story soon. Before Marvel comics goes out of business, thanks.

Him and Terry Austin were one of the best teams of all-time. I mean, maybe my personal favorite.

John Byrne is a comic book LEGEND! He is among the greats and one of my favourite! Can't wait when for his returns on the X-Men

ALPHA FLIGHT at 0:56 ALPHA FLIGHT was the book that got me back into comics in my late 20's. Next thing you know, I've got a $70-$120 a week habit at the local comic store.

there were only 2 amazing artists back in the day, john byrne and george perez. you couldnt wait to see the art on the next page!

So so so many great books, I loved almost every single book he drew. That's rare of an artists overall career!

Wonderful interview!

Keep this content coming; this is amazing stuff. I’m hoping you can do something with the Simonsons also!

@michaelavila6533

5 жыл бұрын

have a big interview with Walt & Weezie in the pipeline!

Great video bro. Well done.

Oh! Great interview! Wow! John Byrne!!!

I had the honor of sharing a creator's room at a convention with John Byrne. I found him to be personable a great person to talk with. I loved just talking with him., my kind of conversationalist and intellect. Thank you for the char in East Hartford CT back in the '90s. it was a seed change in my creative life Mr. Byrne.

One of my childhood highlights was meeting John Byrne in the Forbidden Planet comic Book Shop in NY in the mid 1980s.

Mike Avila, you have the best job on planet Earth. Thanks for this. Great stuff.

Byrne is my gen’s Jack King Kirby. To this day, when I write (I no longer draw) I “see” my SF world (aliens; spacecraft etc) in a ‘Byrnian’ design.

muchas gracias por esta preciosa entrevista al gran maestro John Byrne... un saludo enorme desde Chile... dedo arriba y suscrito!)

I love John Byrne, he is my favorite Marvel comic book artist and I adore his stories, and this video taught me that he created a union jack I did not know this, I love Union Jack and the rest of your creations John Byrne.

This series rocks! Thank you so much!

Thank you SYFY Wire for this!

*Awesome job, Mike! JB is a legend.*

I can't believe it took me this long to see an interview with Byrne, I never knew he was so funny! :D

MORE!!! There is so much to ask John Byrne.

This is the artist that got me into comics back in the 80's.

That was awesome. Thank you.

His run on Fantastic Four was great - I also remember he drew Indiana Jones for a couple of issues.

"I try not to erase." I knew it!!! That's why I try not to as well,.....when analyzing any book drawn by him, just as he says, "it's like an avalanche". A comic illustration Master. Thank you Mr Byrne.

Those ten minutes of interview flew really very fast. Hope you forgot yor keys or something else in Byrne’s house so you can get back there soon.

I remember His superman revival, and how awesome he made Lex Luther. The art was just amazing especially for the era. This guy gave me great childhood memories.

Mr. Byrne has always been my biggest comic artist hero! He's the reason I draw in animation today!

Johns run on FF in the 80's was top notch.

@RX552VBK

4 жыл бұрын

DoggieNYC yep pitch perfect imo.

I've got a couple of things in common with John Byrne, I love to do artwork,I love strong female characters and we were born in the same town as each other in the UK.One uncommon thing-I love Alpha Flight!But also FF,X-men and She-Hulk is some of his best pencilling, thanks John.

"I don't know how you can take a story that took us 4 years to tell, and try to do it in 2 hours." THANK YOU!!!

One of my all time favorite artist.

For Michael, a quote I grabbed years ago from Byrne on his board about Alpha Flight. “Y'know, I dump on ALPHA FLIGHT quite a lot, but that's mostly because of the art. If I can be forgiven a towering immodesty, when it comes to the writing I DO think I was firing on all cylinders. Probably because it was the first time, professionally, that the characters were truly and wholly MINE. Nobody could tell me I was getting them wrong!”

Omg thank you. He’s one of my hero’s

He’s one of the all time greats, I treasure the comics of his that I own 🔥💀

Byrne and Simonson. My first comic heros.

Loved his run on West Coast Avengers as well. 'Dark' Scarlet Witch...I was gutted when he left the book before completing that story line.

Cool post. Thank you.

You were pretty lucky to get that interview. My understanding is that Byrne shuns interviews and personal appearances.

I have an old Wizard #200 issue & Bryne was on the list as a Top 5 Controversial Comic Artist/Writers & he was like #5 behind Todd McFarlane

@palsunstar

5 жыл бұрын

Gah! My eyes! Please fix the typo!

Whatever project He has in the works ,I hope Terry Austin inks him. One of the best art teams in comic book history.

@palsunstar

5 жыл бұрын

The magic they once shared together is gone. I’d much prefer Doug Hazlewood, Mark Farmer or if health wasn’t a factor, Bud LaRosa.

Bravo!

He knew that the art must compliment the story .

Maybe Byrne wasn't hooked on Alpha Flight, but I sure was. I grew up on my grandfather's stories about being a kid in Canada, and getting a team of super-powered Canadians - with elements of Logan's backstory - was too good to be true. Still one of my favorite comics/teams ever. And that whole "no, you moron - Hudson really is dead" was a slap in the side of the head I won't soon forget.

Gênio. Obrigado por tudo.

Edit: Byrne makes a good point. The set-up for Dark Phoenix, especially the personal relationships, are gonna be shoved into a 2 hour film. I’m hopeful, but at the same time I still think Dark Phoenix should have been a trilogy finale that they build towards.

@TheEnigmaticBM39

5 жыл бұрын

They can't now that the mouse owns the x men.

@christianschmidt8476

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheEnigmaticBM39 Dark Phoenix and New mutants are still coming.

@palsunstar

5 жыл бұрын

Owww! The typo! Make it go away!

@mathewsimoes5830

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Sondersted Done! That’s why I hate quickly typing these comments on my phone.

We need a 3 to 4 hour long documentary film simply called: Byrne. It can touch on his early life and explore every facet of his career.

incredible!

I still regret the abrupt end of Byrne's " First Line " series . That had so much potential and had been a fantastic read .

Byrne the one man comic book army

Byrne and Claremont are the two absolute gods of my childhood. Actually, Byrne a bit more. He just touched so much. Shout out to Simonson's Thor.

He has a very inconsistent view on characters. He seemed so proud to show off his figurines that were based on his own characters, self or co-created, but then he says he had no interest in his own Alpha Flight creation because it didn't come from Stan and Jack, who cares about these new people? They were worthy characters. My biggest gripe about reading comics for the last 39 years is when he dropped Alpha Flight. That was as crushing as killing off Guardian in issue 12. The book might as well have ended when he left. Why couldn't he have shown a fraction of the interest in writing the characters as he did in showing off his figures?

@cdubbart

5 жыл бұрын

Because someone else sculpted the figurines, maybe? I think artists are inherently fickle, man. If the interest wanes, the creation suffers. As an artist myself, I'd personally rather move on from a project I no longer care about than try to force it for the sake of the project's popularity/success. But his Alpha Flight run was iconic.

@palsunstar

5 жыл бұрын

You have to remember that Alpha Flight was originally created as a team that could go up against the X-Men. Practically throw-away characters. This probably contributed greatly to JB’s less than enthusiastic approach to more Alpha Flight stories.

I hate hearing that being fast is why most artist got the job. Makes me wonder if the material could have been better if it was not rushed. It is still amazing that they can get so much done monthly

Byrne is an English Midlander, we speak our minds well, and really don't care what people think afterwards 😂😂😂

one of the greatest storytellers of our times.

More Byrne pls!

I like John Byrne. He's a force of nature in adventure cartooning. A hard worker who cares about storytelling. NUFF SAID!

always liked byrne's immaculate art and his realist style of writing... and the way he gets on the wrong side of really uptight people just by voicing his personal opinions semi-privately. The vast majority of us really need to have literally nothing to lose to even consider being as honest as byrne these days...

Mike Avila is the best interviewer in comics right now.

@lukeskywalker6809

5 жыл бұрын

He thought Byrne was kidding when saying get out. He wasn’t.

Legend.

Back to penciling a series? Yes please thank you please now yes thank you.

That just broke me..I was a big fan of Alpha Flight

@En_theo

5 жыл бұрын

I always thought it was an Ok serie, but never felt the thrill of his FF or Superman run. I'm not surprised he was not that involved into it.

Byrne is my love and hate for comics personified into one being. That said mad respect for the guy. It's absolutely crazy to hear he didn't like the X-Men. Cause despite his perception, to me, he and Claremont really defined the characters. I can remember being a kid and trying to ape his Marvel style and not getting it at all.

Why are some videos blocked in my country? Please, release the videos!!!!

I want this X-Men book!

Byrne is AWESOME! 'nuff said.

Would love what Byrne had planned for his short lived Hulk book and his thoughts on Al Milgrom's take on the book

John Byrne is my favorite hero

My first comic as a child was x-men 123. by Xmen 125 my life would never be the same...

Louise and Walter are couples goals.

I love John Byrne! He understands that super men should be super masculine and super women should be... not super masculine... super feminine. They are archetypes that capture our imagination. Women don't have to be men to be heroes.

Living legend

Basically....don't talk about comic if you've never heard of John Byrne. He was the master before most of the masters now.

I don't know why but this channel cannot be subscribed here in Brazil. Please make this possible. Your videos are very good!

Respect...🙏

I like the music at the end. What's the title and artist?

John Byrne: living Legend.

@Khultan

5 жыл бұрын

Luke Skywalker Not with Star Wars, he isn't.

I was sad when Byrne left but Cockrum coming back was a Earth Shattering Good and Paul Smith was amazing!!! And Smith NEVER got the Respect he deserved!!

When all is quiet and no one is watching the figures move around

John Byrne is a God among artists!!!