Saturday, April 11, 2009

Separated at Byrne-th Month, Week 2: A Treemendous Fight

John Byrne presents Separated at Byrne-th Month!Welcome back, my friends, to the fun that never ends...until April 26, at least. It's Week Two of the increasingly exciting Separated at Byrne-th Month!, celebrating, ceremonializing, and contemplating the many cover tributes, salutes, and parodies of that ol' Canucklehead himself, John Byrne! This week: in the midst of his sprawling saga returning Danny Rand to the Marvel Universe (without which we'd not have this, so we owe Byrne a debt of thanks for that), Mister Johnny B sneakily snuck in a homage to the iron one's second issue in Namor's twenty-second issue. (Holy Harvey Dent!) Sure, maybe it ain't easy being green, but clobber that photosynthetic parasite, Danny and Nammy! If giant man-eating plant monsters who won't...heh heh heh...won't leaf you alone are your kinda thing, then check this out!:

Iron Fist #2/Namor #22
L: Iron Fist #2 (December 1975), art by Gil Kane and John Romita
R: Namor #22 (January 1992), art by John Byrne
(Click picture to Audrey II-size)



3 comments:

Christian Zamora said...

Not much of a Byrne fan, here, but still, a great tribute :)

chiasaur11 said...

Then nothing.

When Ben Clobbers a guy, he stays clobbered.

Unknown said...

I haven't seen a Namor cover of that era before, but boy, is Suit-Wearin' Namor in the Marvel box looking dapper or what! Or ios that actually Jack Nicholson?