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Vinny Valenti
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I was tickled to come across this online. (A little less tickled that someone colored it and nuked the entire point of the grey tones). The cosplayer used the commission to further define the details of his costume machinery.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 18 April 2025 at 3:22pm
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Vinny Valenti
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"I guess the fans were just so eager to have him back, they were ready to accept anything."
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I was one of them. I remember noticing the contradiction, but I shrugged it off. Just imagine if that was published in the age of 40+ year old Comic Book Guy and the Internet!
Also provided a built-in reason for why Heather didn't think something was amiss. She was just happy to have him back just like the fans.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 18 April 2025 at 3:20pm
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Paul Wills
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Nice page, Vinny! Man, the composition...the camera angle is everything!
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Shaun Barry
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At only 11 years old in April 1984, I bought ALPHA FLIGHT #12 right off the rack and instantly thought it was a classic. Certainly one of the "heaviest" comic stories I'd ever read, up to the point.
Nothing but warm nostalgia... for such a grim ending!
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Brian Miller
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Good god Vinny. That’s probably my favorite of all the “toned”
commissions. Just beautiful.
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Jason K Fulton
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Those grey tone commissions are so special.
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John Byrne
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So easy to imagine the internet exploding over something like this—and then accusing me of changing my plans when I did the reveal.
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Eric Smearman
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I'm sure I'm misremembering this but I always think of
Guardian's death and Sue Richards' miscarriage in FF as
happening pretty close together. Either way, they're a pair
of gut-punches that I feel like I never quite recovered
from.
Thanks a lot, JB.
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Craig Earl
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| Posted: 19 April 2025 at 9:56am | IP Logged | 9
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A pal of mine picked up AF 12 before I could get my hands on it (distribution was terrible in my local town so if you missed out an on issue, your chance was gone).
Undeterred, I did a deal with my friend, swapping a camera lens for it.
I can still remember him repeatedly asking me:
'Are you sure? Are you sure?'
Yep, I was sure.
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Jim Petersman
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Comparing the Heather we ended up with in ALPHA FLIGHT to the Heather shown in ELSEWHEN (with a very much alive Mac), I'm good with Mac being gone.
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Edward Aycock
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Eric Smearman, you're right on target. Sue's miscarriage was announced on the last page of FF 267 cover dated June of 1984.
Guardian's death was cover dated July 1984.
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John Byrne
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Guess I was in a killing mood!(To psychoanalyse myself, the drawing in those issues suggests I was at a low ebb in my life. I hope that wasn’t what turned me homicidal!)
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