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Both published by Dark Horse Comics at the time, Mike Mignola's Hellboy made one of his earliest appearances in John Byrne's Next Men #21, albeit it a fictionalised version of himself, before Dark Horse published Hellboy #1 As a result, it has become quite the collectible over the years On Wednesday, at the ComicConnect Auctions,[...]

John Byrne's Next Men is one of my favourite superfiction comic books Buying it since it first appeared in Dark Horse Presents (alongside those first chapters of Frank MiIler's Sin City) it reminded me of my previous-favourite Byrne comic, Alpha Flight A mixture of messed up folk who normally wouldn't be seen in the same[...]

Talking about his IDW work of late, such as Next Men, Cold War and High Ways, he writes; I have waived my page rate and first publication royalties on all my books at IDW, to make it easier on their corporate wallets I get only the royalties from the trade paperbacks and other reprints. IDW have been[...]

But it's not the only book he's working on. With the odd alternating-books approach I have been playing with lately, this morning I actually finished the first issue of NEXT MEN: FINDERS OF LOST CHILDREN For the attention of some current artists, this is a book that will be on sale next July, at the earliest! This[...]

But it was other properties that got highlighted last night, with John Byrne's Next Men being picked up as the first appearance of Hellboy, and Leonard showing off his Jim Lee sketch of himself as Lion-O from Thundercats. Last night's Big Bang Theory took place in the local comic store, still full of first[...]

John Byrne writes; As sometimes happens when a story idea percolates for a long time — too long? — my plans for NEXT MEN: AFTERMATH have hit a speedbump Namely, the recent DOCTOR WHO "finale" played most, if not all, the cards I was planning for my series. This presents a major problem[...]

Fashion can go swivel. Throughout 2011, I've discovered that the comic book I've learnt to turn to first, every month, is John Byrne's Next Men A truly unpredictable time travel romp with a wide cast and a tendency to diverge onto tangents repeatedly in a most entertaining fashion Diving into slavery, concentration camps and the Earl[...]

On the Byrne Robotics message board, John Byrne has confirmed that IDW will publish the sequel to Next Men, when it concludes later this year John Byrne's Next Men began at Dark Horse in Dark Horse Presents, before continuing as a series under the Legend imprint Put on hiatus by Byrne with issue 30, it would[...]