scans_daily: That John Byrne sure likes to be mean to his characters

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@ 2011-01-07 05:48 am UTC

That John Byrne sure likes to be mean to his characters

Four pages from NEXT MEN #(3)2, out this week...

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	Lemmie fix that headline for you daningram.insanejournal.com 2011-01-07 03:01 pm UTC (link)
	"That John Byrne sure likes to be mean." (Reply to this)

	no subject misterbug 2011-01-07 03:02 pm UTC (link)
	Always interesting - and confusing - when the author just writes everyone as talking straight English, instead of using italics, <, or little asterixes to tell you what's being translated. I believe Garth Ennis did that once. And in another WW2 comic, too. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject icon_uk 2011-01-07 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	Hmm, I was reading that as that the German guy IS hearing it as German, but the guy doing the talking isn't actually speaking German. That he's a broadcast telepath which means that anyone will understand him, but his own comprehension is normal, and if he doesn't speak German he'll have no idea what the other guy is saying. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject greenmask 2011-01-07 05:41 pm UTC (link)
	..What is going on? (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject espanolbot 2011-01-07 11:31 pm UTC (link)
	People learning the hard way the time travel isn't all running around with eccentricly dressed men with British accent in a police box or flying around in a blue and gold costume with your robot pal, I presume. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject superboyprime 2011-01-08 06:16 am UTC (link)
	Keeping it simple... the book's normally about a group of superpowered people. In the current storyline, they're scattered across time. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject greenmask 2011-01-08 09:27 am UTC (link)
	Thanks. What awfully bad luck they seem to have had in where they landed. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject shanejayell 2011-01-07 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	Okay... I'm assuming I don't know enough about the canon to get this. (Reply to this)

	no subject espanolbot 2011-01-07 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Hm, Dr Mengele I presume? One of those Nazi scientists who people like to portray as some kind of master geneticist when he really was just some demented throwback to the timers when surgeons could give you a short back and sides after they sawed off your foot. Only without the logic. And more collections of eyes pinned to cards. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject superboyprime 2011-01-08 06:22 am UTC (link)
	Since there'd be no reason to keep Mengele's identity a secret for next issue, as they do here, I doubt it's him. Probably someone from the team's past. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject psychopathicus_rex 2011-01-08 05:00 am UTC (link)
	'Next Men' is still going? I thought it wrapped up years ago. That being said, I've never read it, and have no idea who these characters are, so I'm probably not the best one to talk. (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject arbre_rieur 2011-01-08 06:01 am UTC (link)
	It went on hiatus. A very loooong hiatus. It only came back a month or so ago. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject psychopathicus_rex 2011-01-08 11:54 am UTC (link)
	I'll say it was long - didn't that book initially come out in the mid-'80's or so? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject pyynk 2011-01-08 10:49 pm UTC (link)
	Early 90s, I believe. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject psychopathicus_rex 2011-01-09 12:09 am UTC (link)
	OK, so not quite as long as I'd thought. Still, long. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject pyrotwilight 2011-01-08 06:48 am UTC (link)
	Well...that's just depresssing. So not only does she get beat and lashed she's also apparently not quick on the uptake with what's going on at all? I mean their outfits are pretty stand out and historical. May as well throw in the slave master raping her for giggles. headshake (Reply to this) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject sadoeuphemist 2011-01-08 09:12 am UTC (link)
	I assume she thought they were a bunch of historical reenactors who got a little too into it. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject althechi 2011-01-08 11:54 am UTC (link)
	Going by the haircut, is the familiar doctor Dr. Milo? (Reply to this)

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