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Best value I ever got on anything for $1.25!

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Including tax?

(The first issue was "double-sized" so it was >choke< $1…!)

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Whoops--of course, you're right, JB. For some reason, I recalled the cover price as a buck twenty-five.

Of course, that was a pretty expensive evening for my 12-year-old self. Right after buying AF #1 and a few other comics, I went to the (now-long-gone) two-screen movie theater next door to the drugstore and saw SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. Heck...all together, I bet I spent almost five dollars that night!






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Got through #12 last night.

Still a bummer. Jaxon is such a great evil bastard, and Courtney...what a hotty-pants, even if she has no soul. Hell, I know Ice Queens that make her look caliente.

Hey, JB!
Isn't it about time we have an ALPHA FLIGHT sticky?
It's only going to get more attention as time goes on and people see how deep your thinking goes into character development.

Speaking of that, did you outline at the start, or make it up as you go?

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Y'know, I dump on ALPHA FLIGHT quite a lot, but that's mostly because of the art. If I can be forgiven a towering immodesty, when it comes to the writing I DO think I was firing on all cylinders. Probably because it was the first time, professionally, that the characters were truly and wholly MINE. Nobody could tell me I was getting them wrong!
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For me, the two are inseparable. The reason I love AF #1-28 so much IS the perfect art AND writing. 
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JB,
The art? Are you daft, man?
I was staring at single panels during Snowbird's origin and freaking out about how great they were rendered. Shaman's origin as well! What about your foray into Deadly Ernests's origin that looked like an old EC war comic?? And do I have to bring up the final 3 pages of #12 AGAIN with the whole countdown and chilling panel of Mac's last word? 

The whole issue #13 is ridiculous! The panel borders in the funeral sequence?? Genius.

Someone's gonna win an Oscar when they bring this to the big screen, and you directed and storyboarded it!
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Paul Kupperberg chides me often for dumping on my own work. "You're telling your fans they're IDIOTS, you know!"

Well, not really. But I do want my fans to see the work for what it is -- basically a long, hard struggle that is not yet done.

I have on occasion called myself the Rob Liefeld of my generation -- someone who rose too high, too fast, on too little talent. (Sad thing is, a whole lot of people, fans and pros alike, seem to think I believe my work to be as "great" as do my fans. If only!!)

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At the risk of disagreeing with our Honourable Host, the Liefeld comparison would only be true if one disregards the fact that Rob Liefeld has less talent in his entire body than John Byrne has in his little finger. 
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At the risk of disagreeing with our Honourable Host, the Liefeld comparison would only be true if one disregards the fact that Rob Liefeld has less talent in his entire body than John Byrne has in his little finger.

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Context, m'boy! Context! When I was starting my career, giants still walked the Earth. I was setting myself up for comparison with Kirby, Gil Kane, John Buscema, Neal Adams, Joe Kubert, Curt Swan, John Romita and a host of others.

In that crowd, comparing myself to Liefeld is fair!

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In that crowd, comparing myself to Liefeld is fair!

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And people say you have a big ego...
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The reason I love AF #1-28 so much IS the perfect art AND writing.

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Me too. An almost perfect run, save for the appearance of the Beyonder, that required little knowledge of any other book, a rarity these days, that never ages.

The origin tales were a brilliant inclusion too, setting up what was to come rather than being the filler they may have first seemed.
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And people say you have a big ego...

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Like I say, over the years there have been plenty of people eager to apply the thoughts and comments made by fans to my own thinking about my work -- which anyone who pays attention would realize was far from the truth.

But, why cloud the issue with facts, right?

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I'd be happy to scan the original art if Marvel wanted to use this for the cover -- 






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