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Independents Unbound (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Group claims 100,000 signatures in 'Send Rove to Jail' campaign 07/24/2008 @ 8:50 amFiled by John Byrne SendRoveToJail.com . That's the name of the website now claiming to have over 101,000 signatures in their campaign to urge the House Judiciary Committee to cite former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove for contempt. Rove failed to testify after being subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee...
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SharonCobb (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Raw Story has an extraordinary story about abuse of power by Condi Rice, not to mention one which could endanger Obama. Night before Obama flies abroad, Rice bars embassies from aiding candidates by:John Byrne The night before presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) left for Afghanistan, Iraq and Western Europe for a tour of US bases overseas, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued...
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Source: [b]Raw Story - John Byrne[/b] McCain VP candidate and South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford recently killed a tourism advertising campaign that would have branded his state "so gay," according to the SC gay paper, Q Notes. The state employee who approved the ad and was promptly forced to resi...
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Blockade Boy (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Yes, "Blockade Boy": the destination for dated, irrelevant, and factually dodgy insular fanboy humor.
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Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
AQUAMAN #37, DC Comics, October 1997 Remember Genesis? It's the crossover event with the Godwave? Where every superpower ever is attributed to the Source or somesuch? The one written and drawn by John Byrne and promptly forgotten about because, well, that particular revelation really wasn't needed? Ah, NOW you remember. The details are fuzzy, but you remember. (I might as well have been talking to...
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Following our article on June 2, we are happy to clarify that Tilda Swinton and John Byrne have not been a couple for over five years but are bringing up their children together. They both have new partners but remain good friends.
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Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
L: Diamonds Are Forever first edition book jacket (March 1956), art by Pat Marriott R: The Sensational She-Hulk #50 (May 1993), art by John Byrne (Click picture to Blofeld-size) This week's "Separated at Birth" suggested ( here ) by boisterous Bully-booster Brian Smith. Thanks, Brian!
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Siskoid's Blog of Geekery (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
ALPHA FLIGHT #12, Marvel Comics, July 1984 Back in the 80s, you couldn't throw a dart at a comic book store without hitting one of John Byrne's rags. He was as ubiquitous as Mark Waid or Grant Morrison were in the 90s and 00s. During his run on Uncanny X-Men, Byrne co-created Alpha Flight, Canada's premiere superteam (well... its only superteam, really), and would later go on to write and draw them...
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LinkMachineGo (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
[comics] The Comics Reporter: So Why Were The X-Men Popular? … Tom Spurgeon on why Len Wein, Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and John Byrne’s run on the Marvel title was so successful … ‘X-Men was solid comic book entertainment that distinguished itself against the comic books of the time in several savvy ways that caught [...]
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Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Also coming out of the State of the industry panel at HeroesCon, Van Jensen at ComicMix reports that Mark Waid revealed John Byrne will write the previously announced Farscape comic for BOOM! I put a question mark in the headline because of the way Jensen phrased it in his report: Mark Waid, with an elbow [...]
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Blockade Boy (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Preteens drawn by John Byrne = creepy, adult-faced dwarves. But I take it the human growth hormone finally kicked in. What's wrong What else is wrong with this picture? Well, how's about the way Cassie appears to be dropping from the ceiling onto Scott, like a monster in a horror movie? But the main thing that bugs me is that Spider-Man t-shirt. In his own universe, the general public regards Spider-Man...
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Comics Worth Reading (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Compleat Next Men Volume 1Buy this book John Byrne is interviewed in a short piece at Publishers Weekly to promote his Compleat Next Men compilations from IDW. The first one is 400+ pages in black and white, collecting twelve issues and a tie-in plus extras. Byrne calls the project a “big test”, saying “If this collection [...]
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Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Filed by John Byrne The man who leaked secret documents about the US war in Vietnam has a name for the invasion of Iraq. "Supreme war crime." He also has appellations for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: "domestic enemies of the Constitution" and "war criminals." Speaking at a church in San Francisco Saturday, Daniel Ellsberg bemoaned the Administration's war and Iraq and cautioned...
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Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
Terminus's weapon attacks Earth in panels from Fantastic Four #269 (August 1984), written and drawn by John Byrne, coloring by Glynis Wein, lettering by Diana Albers The Xindi Superweapon attacks Florida and Cuba; from "The Expanse" ( Enterprise episode, March 2003)
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Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Dark Horse Comics has sent Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for titles shipping in September 2008. ALIENS OMNIBUS VOLUME 5 John Arcudi (W), Jim Woodring (W), James Vance (W), John Byrne (W/A), Ron Marz (W), Mark Schultz (W), Mark Verheiden (W) Richard Corben (A), Guy Davis (A), Bernie Wrightson (A), Duncan Fegredo (A), Arthur Adams [...]
