PART SIX Of JOHN BYRNE'S FANTASTIC FOUR COVER GALLERY...

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It sure was fun while it lasted, but, alas, nothing lasts forever, or so they say.  (Who exactly 'they' are, I'm not quite certain.)  Anyway, such was the case with JOHN BYRNE's stellar run on The FANTASTIC FOUR.  Ish #293 (appearing next post) was the last one that Byrne both wrote and drew, though he plotted #294, which was scripted by ROGER STERN and drawn by JERRY ORDWAY & AL GORDON.  Number 295, by STERN, ORDWAY & GORDON, credited him with a "Special thanks to John Byrne" in the credit box, but Byrne was already hard at work over at DC COMICS, revamping their flagship title - SUPERMAN!

And so ended an era!  But we're getting ahead of ourselves, so be sure to join us for the last post in this series as we tie up all the loose ends and pack everything tidily away!  Coming soon.

The FANTASTIC JOHNNY FUTURE - PART FIVE...

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LUIS BERMEJO - surely one of the finest artists ever to grace the medium of comicbooks.  In these pages you can see why, particularly in the third one, which has no background in any of the panels, but doesn't suffer from the lack thereof.  Often, the secret of being a great pictorial storyteller is knowing what to leave out as much as what to put in - and Luis certainly knows how to tell a story.

Incidentally, for those who are counting, there are only eight more episodes to go before the series concludes, so be sure not to miss any, in this, the absolutely greatest blog in the whole universe - for blowing its own trumpet and making totally unsubstantiated claims in regard to itself.  (If I can't impress you with my blog's status, I can surely do so with my frank and open honesty!)

PART TWO OF A SUPER-SMASHING EASTER TO ALL CRIV-ITES...

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As promised, here's the second part of our Easter post, wherein are presented pages which reflect the time of year from SMASH! #61, cover-dated April 1st 1967.

In case you're wondering, SMASH!'s DANGER MOUSE came first, long before the TV cartoon of the same name which saw such success sometime in the '80s.  The issue from which these pages come had more strips than I've shown in this post and its predecessor, but not all of them had an Easter theme, whether they were British characters, or DC and MARVEL reprints.

Well, that's your lot!  Be sure to drop in again for the best of U.K. and U.S. comics, in this, the brightest, biggest and best blog in Britain!  (As voted by my pals when I bought them all a pizza in exchange for their 'unsolicited testimonials'.)