Aurora didn’t need to be wearing a black turtleneck body-suit if you ask me… it’s not as cold as you all think it is up here!

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And Aurora herself said she wasn't affected by the cold, until after Walt 'fixed' her powers for her.  Frankly, I love Aurora's full body costume.  It doesn't get any sexier than that.

The guy screws with another artists' characters while riffing on a Ken Steacy/Bruce Timm art style.

Ken Steacy!  Thanks for that: had been trying to think of the name of the artist that did AF in Marvel Fanfare:

Marvel reprints in the UK often would feature a main story with a back-up story or two (they used to slice and dice so that they only printed part of each story per issue). Machine Man used to run as a back-up story in one of the comics I collected, but I forget which one. Maybe Transformers or Secret Wars.

Peter - I think MM appeared in Transformers; wasn't it AF that was the back-up story in the UK Secret Wars reprints?!

Sasquatch is still perfect, but I wanted to draw him anyway, so there.

Given how it turned out, not sure I would have bothered...

Posted this before in another Alpha Flight thread last year, but since we're discussing attitude...

QUOTE: JMH: What is the Canadian Legion? What are its origins? RICK: The Canadian Legion came out of my pitches to Marvel back when Joe Q and Bill Jemas were just starting out there at the top. I’d spoken to both of them about an Ultimate Alpha Flight. I was told two things; fans don’t care about Alpha Flight, and Marvel doesn’t hire people they don’t know. So with the idea that I had to make a name for myself first to get work there, I decided to do an Ultimate Alpha Flight book on my own. I wanted to prove them wrong that fans could and would support a Canadian superhero team. But when I started dissecting the old Byrne issues and breaking them down to analyze and rebuild, I realized something strange. The characters were pretty lame. I mean they worked great in the 80’s and they still have a kind of edge within the Marvel universe, but at their core, they are weak concepts. A fish girl, a guy in a cheap Iron Man suit, a Sasquatch, a little person named after a rubber hockey puck, two super-speedsters and a shape changing supernatural cop. When you look at characters like Captain America or Superman, their iconography, their core concept is so strong that you can create a Fighting American, A US Agent, a Supreme, a Superior, or whatever and fans can still relate to it. How do you relate to Puck?? His novelty exists solely in his originality. So I decided to drop any similarity to AF, drop the homage and start from scratch.

http://comicbookinterviews.com/2011/07/interview-rick-evans/

How do you relate to Puck?? His novelty exists solely in his originality.
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Wait what? Puck is lame but he is such an original character that he can't be copied. What a moron.

This is why Alpha Flight has failed under everyone but JB. He made such a unique group of characters that had a special voice to them. It's a testimate to his ability and vision that no one can cookie cutter it and make it work.

I find those who tear it apart are angry they don't have the creativity to match JB's. Losers.