John Byrne comenta sobre sua depressão no mundo dos quadrinhos e possivel suicidio?

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Em seu fórum particular, o Byrne Robotics: The John Byrne Forum, o velho canadense soltou um post bastante misterioso em 26 de dezembro:

One day, back in Art College, I started doodling Roman numerals on a page in one of my sketchbooks. This was around 1972, but I was already thinking ahead, and planning to start dating my work with Roman numerals once the century changed. I didn't want to mess around with MCMLXXXVII and other such numerical jawbreakers, but once we hit 2000/MM, I figured I'd be ready to start.
Which I did, on an issue of HIDDEN YEARS, a book I could not even have dreamed of ever being able to do back in 1972.

Funny thing was, as I have mentioned before, a number of people wrote in to ask who the inker was, whose initials were MM. Thank you educational system!

Well, in a very short time now, I will be starting on the first commission piece for 2012, and that will, of course, be dated MMXII -- so it's twelve years already since that first XHY cover! I wonder how high I'll get? Even as far back as 1972 -- MCMLXXII -- I had been giving serious consideration to making my planned and (hopefully) gracious exit when I was in my 66th year -- MMXV -- but I'm lately rather liking the "symmetry" of MMXX. Will I really jot that notation onto a commission piece some day?

Or do the fates have other plans for me?

JOHN BYRNE - MCML to ?
essa parada começou lá na Art College, em 1972, num rabisco, mas que num determinado momento (em 2000) ele datou uma capa dos X-men com algarismos romanos e achou legal. Daí ele pensava em sair fora em 2015 (MMXV) quando completará 66 anos. Mas que ele mudou de ideia, e tem achado a simetria (hum... boiola!) de MMXX (2020, seu Johnny Epaminondas!) mais interessante para a sua saída. Apesar de terminar a postagem com "John Byrne - MCML to ?" um membro do fórum, Valmor J. Pedretti, perguntou se com "saída" Bráine estava se referindo à aposentadoria. O que o autor respondeu?

I mean retiring from the planet, Valmor. I have no interest in withering away.

All depends on various external factors, of course -- not the least of which being the Fates beating me to the punch!

"Eu vou me aposentar do planeta, Valmor!" Eita!
O Rich Johnston do Bleeding Cool ficou se perguntando se Byrne estaria pensando em se suicidar-se e estaria fazendo propaganda disso. Já eu penso que não (ou espero que não)