Titanic True Believer wrote:
Runguy wrote:

Does anyone think that there will be a John Byrne FF omnibus(s) this year (since its the FF's 50th !)
Heh. Over on his board Byrne started a thread b****ing about the Ron Garney cover on the SA CAP Omni  "Of course, NuMarvel had to piss on it to make it theirs"  Can you imagine the gasket he would blow if /when Marvel publishes a Byrne FF Omni with a varient cover by some other artist? There's no way in Hell Byrne himself would ever do a new cover for it, not with his current feelings about Marvel editorial.    

it's a dual shame that Byrne,whose 80's work on that title was a spot-on homage to Lee and Kirby, and demonstrated  a respect and appreciation of Silver Age Marvel that the schlockmeisters who now run the company certainly don't share with him, may as a result: possibly not see his work collected in the Omnibus format, as his warranted criticism will certainly sting the PWB at NuMarvel; or b) he (and we) will see it collected, only to have its cover desecrated, not with an illustration that pays respect to his original work (as the earlier Brereton, Granov, Ladronn, and Ross variant covers showed for Kirby, Ditko and Heck) but by a self-indulgent piece of crap such as what denigrates, er, "decorates" the variant cover of the upcoming Kirby-Thor volume, by some current "artiste" whose work is all the rage of the several dozen consumers of Marvel's current, immortal output, and is narcissistically celebrating his (self-perceived) near-anonymous "greatness."  (At least, the Ron Garney cover for the Captain America Omnibus that he - rightfully - trashes on his web site is an attempted homage to the Kirby original - albeit an extremely poorly rendered one.)




How is it that Byrne hasn't had a heart attack yet?

If the Garney cover was the ONLY cover issued, then maybe, MAYBE if there was NO other concern in his life, that MIGHT be worth a half hour of time to get upset about on a message board.  (Note the word 'might' ).

It's called a variant cover for a reason, and you,  nor John Byrne needs to buy it.  Any 'desecrating' the extra cover might do is better than NOT publishing an Omnibus of it at all. 

Byrne would get upset at seeing his favourite movie at the theatre if the front lobby wasn't swept properly or if the bag of popcorn wasn't red.

Highly UNwarranted, imo.

As for a Byrne FF Omni, I love that run, and will buy the collection in a heartbeat!

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