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Vinny Valenti
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I went looking online for the commission of Guardian's death scene done for someone (ahem, *me!*) when I came across this guy's Instagram page - a local NY actor that does web comics for fun. Not professionally drawn, but he's got numerous Byrne homages on his page, and he's clearly a fan.
adding: it does encapsulate my experience reading this issue as well. I mean, there was no way the team leader was going to die, right? Who does that?!?
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 08 February 2019 at 11:23am
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John Byrne
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(Begs the question, JB, that prior to the reveal in issue 12 that she is a robot, her thoughts were shared with the reader. This may have just been a ruse, but I wondered if the original intent had been for her to be human?)••• Always a robot.
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Brian Miller
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JB, how far in advance did you realize Mac would die?
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John Byrne
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Early. I don’t recall exactly how far ahead, but well before the halfway point of the first year.
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Brian Miller
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I know you’ve spoken in the past of how the FF “wrote themselves.” Did you have this happen on AF?
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 08 February 2019 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | 6
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ALPHA FLIGHT is my next dig into the long boxes. It’s been WAY too long.
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Jim Petersman
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| Posted: 08 February 2019 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | 7
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Mac died in 12. Sasquatch in 24. I wonder who would have died in 36 or if the deaths would've even continued?
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John Byrne
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I’m remembering a truly scalding letter I received from one fan who’d stopped reading AF12 in complete disgust when she saw it was Snowbird who was going to die.......
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Jim Petersman
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I was 98% certain it was going to be Northstar with a 2% chance of it being Marrina. Then when I was down to the last couple of pages and it was focused on Mac I knew exactly who was going to die....Heather.
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John Byrne
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Heather would have been SUCH a cheat!!
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Jim Petersman
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Storywise, Mac really was the right choice. Did you ever give any thought to eventually having Heather pull them together as a team (including making it a regular team book)?
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Brian Hague
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I remember buying Alpha Flight #12 at the local 7-Eleven on my way to school and examining the cover again and again, going around and around the pictures of the cast in those gunsights, thinking it might be Northstar, but really, not being able to get past the fact that Mac was right there, in the closest thing to a center spot on the cover...
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