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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 18 April 2025 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

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.


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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 18 April 2025 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
"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.


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Paul Wills
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Posted: 18 April 2025 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
Nice page, Vinny! 
Man, the composition...the camera angle is everything!
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Shaun Barry
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Posted: 18 April 2025 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply

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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Posted: 18 April 2025 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
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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Posted: 19 April 2025 at 2:17am | IP Logged | 8 post reply
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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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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