John Byrne posted:
A while back, amidst all the speculation and imaginings about X-MEN EVERMORE and FANTASTIC FOUR FOREVER, I got to wondering how well I could really step back into that particular time and place. Not trying to recapture how I drew back then, but how the John Byrne of today would approach my "next issue" of FANTASTIC FOUR. I played around with some different ways of reentering the storyline, since I would not want to repeat what had been done already, and, of course, things immediately started "writing" themselves in my head. Before I knew it, I had about a year and a half worth of issues, including the splash of the first, bubbling in my brain. By way of shaking myself out of that unproductive cycle, I decided to just go ahead and draw that splash.