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''John Byrne's Next Men'' (also known as ''Next Men'' or ''JBNM'') is a comic book series written and drawn by John Byrne. The first volume of the series was published by Dark Horse Comics between 1991 and 1995. A nine-issue miniseries was published by IDW Publishing in 2010 and 2011, followed by another series titled ''Next Men: Aftermath'', in 2012. ==Publication history== The Next Men characters made a prototypical appearance as "Freaks" in a lithography plate that was published within the ''History of the DC Universe Portfolio'' in 1986. Byrne had originally pitched the series to DC Comics, but the series never surfaced there. With some changes, Byrne changed the concept to fit in with his work on the graphic novel ''2112'', to become the ''John Byrne's Next Men'' series. Two characters from the "Freaks" artwork somewhat retained their physical looks and became the lead characters of the ''Next Men'' series: heroine Jasmine and villain Aldus Hilltop. The Next Men officially debuted in a four-part storyline in ''Dark Horse Presents'' #54-57 (later reprinted, in color, as ''John Byrne's Next Men'' #0). The series ran until issue #30 and ended with a cliffhanger. According to Byrne, he intended the series to be science-fiction that had a "sort of smell" of being a super-hero book. In addition to exploring mature topics such as sex, abortion, and child abuse, Byrne also set aside some of the more-traditional conventions of the medium, such as "thought-bubbles" and sound-effects. Byrne had intended to conclude the story in a second series after a six-month hiatus, but the collapse of the American comic-book industry in the mid-1990s made it financially unfeasible for him to do so, and he returned to working for hire at DC Comics and Marvel Comics. On October 12, 2007, Byrne announced on his website that comic publisher IDW would release black and white "phonebook"-sized reprints of the ''Next Men'' series sometime in 2008, with the first collection released in May 2008. He stated on his message board: In an interview with IDW appearing in the publisher's April 2008 comic books, when asked about the possibility of a new ''Next Men'' series, Byrne answered, At the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con International, Byrne revealed that he was creating new issues of ''JBNM'' to be published by IDW Publishing. Byrne said that the new series would be both a continuation of the previous series as well as a place for new readers to discover the characters. He expects the entire story, previous series plus new series, to run about 50 issues. IDW's ''John Byrne's Next Men'' #1 was released on December 15, 2010. It was announced in February 2011 that Byrne would finish the ''Next Men'' series with issue #9 of the 2010-2011 series, but a sequel titled ''Next Men: Aftermath'' immediately followed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Next Men」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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