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    John Byrne or John Cassaday: Which artist did you like more

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    Poll John Byrne or John Cassaday: Which artist did you like more (31 votes)

    John Byrne 81%
    John Cassaday 19%

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    John Byrne is my favorite artists. He is one of the best in the business at doing action and conveying emotion through his characters.

    Cassaday was great on Astonishing, but on everything else where he didn't have a extra four months per issue, his art is kind of inconsistent. Like we saw it on Uncanny Avengers.

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    Cassady on his best day is unstoppable. *pun*

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    Depends.

    Will Byrne be inked by Terry Austin?

    Will Cassaday be colored by Laura Martin?

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    @jcg79 said:

    Depends.

    Will Byrne be inked by Terry Austin?

    Will Cassaday be colored by Laura Martin?

    Just which ever one you think had a better run on X-Men.

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    John Byrne defined the X-Men for a generation. Imo he draws the best Emma Frost, Jean Grey, and Nightcrawler. He designed Wolverine's best costume and he had the best take on some of the Hellfire Club. He is a true legend to the X-Men.

    Cassaday only had one great run, that no one noticed until buying the run in trade, because Astonishing wasn't worth reading for a monthly reader. Unlike Byrne, there is no one that I can think of to say that he drew the best. He is a very good artist, but it's hard to compare to Byrne's accomplishments with the X-Men.

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    Byrne is a legend who's work on the X-Men and many other books made history.

    Cassaday is a guy who can't keep a deadline, create good costumes or draw superheroes, besides Captain America and Spiderman.

    This is not a contest!

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    I never understood the hype for Cassaday. He's serviceable. Byrne is magic.

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    Both are of the top artists of their eras I guess. Byrne will get the vote by default because many feel a special need to praise them good ol days. Both are talented and special artists, but I love this modern, pseudo-realistic art, so choosing between the two, it's Cassidy for me. His work on Astonishing at least, on Uncanny Avengers it was emotionless and rushed.

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    @adamtrmm said:

    Byrne will get the vote by default because many feel a special need to praise them good ol days.

    Not necessarily. I made one of these a couple months ago where I put Byrne against Jim Lee with Lee winning the vote, and the 90s are often considered the opposite of the good ol days. I actually thought that Cassaday would do better than Lee, because Lee is controversial among a lot of the fans today.

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    Like others have said, no disrespect to Cassidy, but Byrne is in another league; not only penning the art but also writing some of the most prolific comic stories ever told.

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    @invain:

    You know I always felt like it's just the vocal minority that bash the 90s, considering X-men were at the top of their popularity throughout the whole era, it simply can't be that no one liked what they read and still managed to kept on supporting the franchise to such a point of success at least. Besides, lots of people still love Jim Lee, but yeah, controversial may be a more correct term as of now... and still good ol days for many if we realize 90s have ended almost 20 years ago.

    Damn I'm getting old :(

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    John Byrne

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    Wow, sort of like choosing your favorite sibling.

    I'll have to go with Byrne. His art defined the X Men after all. Someone should give some cred to Paul Smith sometime in one of these threads too though.

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    John Byrne. Pretty easy for me as I do not like John Cassaday's style.

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    #15  Edited By devildog8774

    Byrne

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    The first scan shown under Cassaday's name is actually by Olivier Coipel. Cassaday's art isn't as good as that.

    Byrne.

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    Byrne.

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    John Byrne is a comic book artist legend. He's done it all and there's a reason for that. Superman, The Xmen, The Fanstastic Four . Nuff said.

    Cassaday is not in his league.

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    John Byrne's run literally put The X-Men on the comic book map. Prior to Byrne's run with Chris Claremont, The X-Men largely was an also-ran group to The Avengers and The Fantastic Four that had its book canceled at one point. Just "The Dark Phoenix Saga" alone puts Byrne over the top, but when you add in his work on "Days of Future Past," the creation of Alpha Flight, Proteus, The Hellfire Club, Kitty Pryde, Arcade and the marathon storyline where the team fought Magneto, went to The Savage Land, Japan to help Sunfire and then Canada to fight Alpha Flight --it's no contest.

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    John Byrne

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    Byrne, also pretty sure the top image isn't by Cassady.

    Cassady isn't bad though, whedons run was good

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    I don't know if someone has already said it before, but one of the pics are not even by John Cassaday, is by Oliver Coipiel.

    And even then I'd prefer John Byrne anyway... as an artist. As a person dear God I pity the poor soul that has to stand him.

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    Colossus drawn by Cassady looks ridiculous. I did enjoy most of his work though. I kinda mainly read it for Frost though.

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