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Jim Lynch
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( )*( )

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thanks, JB. Perhaps not coincidentally, I started shopping at another store not long after that. 

I assumed you meant the shop guy and not me...

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Michael Arndt
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Count me in as being fooled also. Great issue. Enjoyed it all especially seeing Northstar getting grilled by the team for his past. Wondered what kind of scheme that Roger Bochs had to help Walter. Then seeing the last part where I read that Omega Flight was coming back next issue.
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Kevin Hagerman
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I was in denial even after the reveal - "But he kissed her!"

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Varo Cannatta
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this issue tore my heart out (well not this one, the next one) i was so happy to see mac back with what i still feel is the best explained reserection i ever read, only to find out it was a ruse.

*sigh*

tore the heart out of my 10 year old chest.

great, great issue.

reserection was so good many writers later used it (was it issue #96 or so?) as being fact, only mac was intercepted by roxxon.
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Chris Durnell
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This was only my third issue of AF so although I know Guardian had died, I didn't know how it happened.  I was very ecstatic that Guardian was back though - he had just too cool a costume.  But even my 10 year old mind thought that the story behind his "resurrection" was overly complicated.  Thousands of years ago?  Ganymede?  Aliens?  But I didn't care - whatever works!  I felt like a fool afterwards - and loved every minute of it.  This last AF story arc is classic - CLASSIC!
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Didier Yvon Paul Fayolle
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I felt for it as well. I didn't know too much of the Omega Flight, as I found the back issues later on. The whole arc blew me away! I was entertained! I was fouled! Hey! I was young and young at American comics knowledge!
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Philippe Cordier
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John,

I noticed that Bob Wiacek had a somewhat thiner inking line than the one you use. I like it, but what did you think? (and do you think so?)

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Steven Cassidy
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.....another "homage" to Star Trek.    "They'd never seen a human before...."
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John Byrne
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Actually a "homage" to a sci-fi story I read when I was a kid. Title and
author long since forgotten, but the concept scared the willies out of me.
When the same thing turned up on STAR TREK I though "Wonder if
Roddenberry read that story, too!"

Often, my "sources" will be older than the ones you think you recognize.
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Ted Pugliese
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Never saw this before.  Too funy!

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Ryan Maxwell
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I just now got that.  I'm going to start slipping it into emails to my boss.
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Steven Cassidy
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Actually a "homage" to a sci-fi story I read when I was a kid. Title and
author long since forgotten, but the concept scared the willies out of me.
When the same thing turned up on STAR TREK I though "Wonder if
Roddenberry read that story, too!"

Often, my "sources" will be older than the ones you think you recognize.

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I actually didn't watch ALL the original Star Treks until a the mid to late 80s (just prior to TNG beginning).

I remember watching Menagerie and (oh crap, I can't recall the title --) the episode your Romulans comic comes from (Balance of Terror?) and instantly thinking --- "holy cow!  That line is from Alpha Flight #25 and that line is from Man of Steel #4"

I think I've caught a couple others over the years -- but those two were directly from a couple favorite episodes.

 

About sources often being earlier than many realize...I find that all the time with modern sci-fi -- I've read a lot of early Arthur C Clarke --- and he's "borrowed from" quite often with no credit.

 

 

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