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Al Ewing Steps Into The Chris Claremont/John Byrne War From Thirty Years Ago

From Uncanny X-Men by Chris Clarmeont and Dave Cockrum, after John Byrne had left the book.

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Then from a subsequent issue of Fantastic Four by John Byrne.
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Shots were fired… as Jim Shooter said "He was the one who brought John Byrne in there. They had a falling out. And so John Byrne goes on to do Alpha Flight and other things. Chris gets other artists and marches on with X-Men. In the various other books he was doing, FF, Alpha Flight, whatever, John would do these stories… like if Chris was using Doctor Doom in an X-Men story, then John would do a story that proved that the Doctor Doom Chris had used was a robot."

And now thirty years later, Al Ewing joins in, in today's Loki: Agent Of Asgard, two panel tiers schmooshed together below…

Image (98)Basically negating the John Byrne story. Or at least horridly confusing it all. Feel free to unpick if you like…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics in London. With a Gerry Duggan signing today, and the continuing Scene & Heard exhibition.
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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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