I was thrilled when I read this issue, it was getting better each and every single time! The scene with the eggs reminded me the one from " Ghostbusters".

It was spooky and it was different than the average super-heroes books or stories you could find.

I remember this cover distinctly.  I obsessed whether to buy this issue - can't remember if this was during my GI Joe only days, or if I had already started to look at super-heroes due to Secret Wars.  Even today I am not sure why the cover grabs me, but it still has that power.  Instead, I would not pick up AF until # 23, and this was one of my first AF back issue hunts.

I read this issue before the Aurora/Northstar 5 page backup that "proved" something about Northstar, but this was the first "evidence" of that when it came to mind (an earlier read of X-Men/AF #2 caused me to ask questions, but not to find any answers).

Snowbird was an early crush (I never had so many comic book crushes in one title!), so I empathized with Douglas.  I foudn the Great Beasts very Lovecraftian, yet very much fit into the standard superheroic theme.  That takes talent to combine those very disparate genres and still pull it off.  The Great Beasts were something that went a long way to providing AF a distinct mythos of its own.  Great stuff.

JB, when you created the Great Beasts, did you use Lovecraft as an inspiration, or was it just coincidence?

I just noticed that Heather is wearing a T-shirt that says, "Where the heck is High River?"  I never noticed that before (until today).

Great in-joke pertaining to a bedroom community near Calgary.  We went to a regional one-act competition there about 3 years ago (in a raging Blizzard) that took me 2 hours to get there from Calgary.  Normally, it's about a 20 minute drive.

I'm going to have to go through my Alpha Flight issues to look for other snippets.  I remember one where Heather's parents lived in the Haysboro neighborhood in Calgary.  That's where my wife grew up.  I always wondered if she and Heather went to the same schools.