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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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Wow...i can't wait to get the next AFClassics TPB to read this story! It's looks great!
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John Byrne
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It's frustrating to look at these old pages and see the ghosts of what is to
come. I still had so far to go, to get my art even close to where I wanted it
to be, but here and there, every once in a while, there would be a glimmer,
an almost accidental moment of getting it right. Usually small stuff.
Walter's face on the next to last page of the main story, Wolverine on the last
page of the backup. And some things even more subtle, like Jeanne-Marie's
body language in the panels where she realizes she can fly.
Miles to go before I sleep!
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Andrew Davey
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Greg Kirkman
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Great stories.
One of the details I love about this issue is that the Super-Skrull takes the form of the Thing as he looked during the Skrull's last appearance in Marvel Team-Up (with a more muscular/humanoid body, a separate "eyebrow", etc.).
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Paulo Pereira
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9 & 10 are my favorite AF issues.
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Anthony Wallis
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My first Alpha Flight issue, given to me by a friend when I was 8. Loved the character of Sasquatch ever since. Beautiful art and a wonderfully exciting story. I didn't get issue 10 until the 90's.
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John Byrne
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One of the details I love about this issue is that the Super-Skrull takes the
form of the Thing as he looked during the Skrull's last appearance in Marvel
Team-Up (with a more muscular/humanoid body, a separate "eyebrow",
etc.).
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Deliberate, of course. And you are one of the few to have noticed!
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John Byrne
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Incidentally, this story was one that a reviewer at the time dismissed as a
"rip-off of 'The Thing' " (meaning the Howard Hawks movie). Yes, of course
An arctic base. An alien invader. The stories are exactly the same.
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Al Cook
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I thought the Super-Skrull "Thing" looked like it had been inked by someone
other than JB, but not being a TIO reader, I missed that completely. Cool.
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Flavio Sapha
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Aurora´s tale is just...perfection!
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Bradley Dean
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Aurora's tale was creepy for me. What a fragile mind, I felt bad for her.
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Cory Vandernet
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Question for JB
Long ago you mentioned why you changed Sasquatch's feet from something resembling bearclaws in X-Men 121 to something similar to orangutan's feet in Alpha Flight but I've forgotten since. Any recollection?
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