Thank you!

[Scott Kolins]

I really want to thank everyone that supported the Omega Flight series. It was an honor to work on this book and I enjoyed it immensely. I would also like to thank Mike Marts, Andy Schmidt, Mike Oeming, Brian Reber, Cory Petit, Daniel Ketchum, Will Panzo & John Barber for working with me on this book. And thanks to Joe Quesada & Dan Buckley for the opportunity. All things considered, I think we did one hell of a job.

There are plans brewing for Marvel's Canadian super-group, but I wanted to tell you here first - it doesn't seem to be in my future just now. I hope it's a great book and I'll be watching with envy. Creating Alpha Flight stories has always been a dream of mine and someday I hope to return and do just that.

Those that are curious as to my next project - you'll have to wait a bit, but hopefully you'll see some news soon. I have a feeling it's going to be pretty good.

Best,

Scott Kolins
scott_kolins@yahoo.com
geoffjohns.com (look under artists for the Scott Kolins board)

[Guardian]

thank you scott. great work on OF. fantastic work all around.

[Captain Primate]

Seriously Scott, you did the Fight proud. nice work...and I look forward to your stuff in the future (regardless of whether its associated with Flight).

[Legerd]

Yeah, thank you Scott and Mike and Reber for the great work you put into the book. We really appreciate it. Thanks for the inside info too. Good luck with your future projects.

[DelBubs]

We really appreciate the work you did on OF Scott and I hope to see you draw them again in the near future. As for your next project, if it's what's been said on the net than I'll pick it up even if there's no Flight connection.

Thanks again.

[Guardian]

I wanted to elaborate a bit more. I think your work on Omega Flight was fantastic. I definetly will look for your next work. Whatever it is. I hope to see you on an OF or AF book sometime in the future. Great work Scott. And thanks for being a part of this book and board.

And excellent work by Mike Oeming and Reber. Great job guys. I hope to see some news on a future ongoing book soon.

Marvel...are you listening?

[Flightpath07]

Yes, thanks so much Scott! You rock!

As for any upcoming projects for you, if you cannot dig your fingers into a new Canadian superteam comic right now, then perhaps you might hopefully get to work with another interesting character, like oh say Wild Child ? lol (I gotta keep trying, don't I?).

Keep up the great work, and best of luck to ya!

[Reber]

Everyone rocked on this project. From the fans to the editors it was really a great project to be a part of. Scott's pencils were just a joy to work with and I'm sad to not have more of his pages sitting in my queue right now. I personally love the fanbase for AF/OF. It was refreshing to have readers that were willing to see what we could do as opposed to resisting the whole way.

I'm hoping to reunite with Scott down the road, but for the immediate future you can catch me on X-Factor, X-Men:Emperor Vulcan, Captain America the Chosen, and Gotham Underground for DC. I got some big X-Men work coming later this year too. I have trouble saying no as you can tell hehe.

Thanks everyone!! :D

[DaVeO]

No, Thank-You for your steller efforts. You did us Alpha fans proud. You showed TPTB that Canadian (or a team based here) can be done right and will sell. Oh, and thank-you for not killing or depowering Sasquatch (who never looked better). :D

[Flightpath07]

Re-ber!
Re-ber!
8)

[Captain Primate]

Everyone rocked on this project. From the fans to the editors it was really a great project to be a part of. Scott's pencils were just a joy to work with and I'm sad to not have more of his pages sitting in my queue right now. I personally love the fanbase for AF/OF. It was refreshing to have readers that were willing to see what we could do as opposed to resisting the whole way.

I'm hoping to reunite with Scott down the road, but for the immediate future you can catch me on X-Factor, X-Men:Emperor Vulcan, Captain America the Chosen, and Gotham Underground for DC. I got some big X-Men work coming later this year too. I have trouble saying no as you can tell hehe.

Thanks everyone!! :D

you rocked!

[Mokole]

Great job Scott! I haven't gotten my #5 yet but you have done a great job on the first 4!

In the past the artists on AF have been something of a letdown but you, Clay Henry, Duncan Rouleau (and the other person who worked on Seagle's AF) have been great and deserve your kudos!

And congrats to you too, Mr. Reber! Glad it all came out so well! Seems you enjoy your work and well, people who enjoy what they do seem to be great at it!

Good job by all the people Mr. Kolins mentioned. I'm still bombed that Mike Marts doesn't help run Marvel anymore, he always supported AF. BUt all the people on this project did there best, and kudos to Andy Schmidt too for being on "As It Happens" to promote it!

[varo]

scott and reber, i personally can not thank you enough for all the hard work and incredible images you guys turned out for this mini series. the respect paid to old school alpha flight as well as the new team were incredible. the best i have seen these characters look since byrne. i would love to see you guys on a alpha flight series one day, because you guys were the only ones to make them look like we all remember them.

while i am glad to see omega will continue, i am sad to hear it won't be in your image.

you have gained a fan in me, and i will continue to follow your guys work!!!

thanks!!!!

[cmdrkoenig67]

Thank you to Mike, Scott, Reber and everyone else involved in the project...You did an wonderful job with the project.


Dana

[Guardian]

Thank you Mr. Reber for your excellent work. Colorists don't usually get much credit, but you did an excellent job. I was going to be picking up UXM: Emperor Vulcan and Captain America: The Chosen. Now I'm just more excited to know you'll be on them.

[birdygirl]

Thank you, Michael Avon Oeming, Scott Kollins, Reber, and evryone else who worked on this series. I was glad to see Alpha (and Omega) Flight handled by a team that really cared. It showed in your excellent product. I hope if our favorite Canadian super-team returns in the future, it will be under a creative team as fine as yourselves. Good work! :D

[Corvus]

The book looked great guys, though I have one complaint. Perhaps its part of the art style, or part of the printing process, but I often felt as if the pages were slightly out of focus. Its not my eyes, as I didn't notice the problem in other current books.

That one quibble aside, the book looked great, especially the last splash page.

[SephirothsKiller]

Yah, great job to the artists on this project, you guys told the story fantastically. Reber you're officially my favorite colourist after this and your amazing X-Factor stuff.

[Le Messor]

Thank you for an excellent run. I'm sad now that it's not ongoing. I can begin to see the stories that would have been.

Speaking of Seagle and Rouleau:

http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_display.shtml?novel=44

- Le Messor
"The songs, lad, the songs would just melt your face."
- Bernard Black

[Ahab]

Thank you, Oeming, Kollins and Reber for having respect. You respected the fans. You respected Alpha Flight (as fan-geeky as that may sound). You handled the situation of Marvel turning an ongoing to a mini with respect as well, despite what you truly may have felt and the outcry that it initiated. You guys did a fantastic job and I'm glad that I was along for the ride. Despite what may or may not happen with Omega Flight/Alpha Flight in the future, your work proved that there is enough of a fan base out there that is interested in reading a Canadian team book with at least some of Alpha Flight in it. I hope that this has helped turn a corner at Marvel regarding their opinion of the Flight being a lucrative product. In any case, you did your parts extremely well. I really enjoyed reading this series. Good luck with your future projects.
Thanks again.

[Dfense75]

Thank you, Oeming, Kollins and Reber for having respect. You respected the fans. You respected Alpha Flight (as fan-geeky as that may sound). You handled the situation of Marvel turning an ongoing to a mini with respect as well, despite what you truly may have felt and the outcry that it initiated. You guys did a fantastic job and I'm glad that I was along for the ride. Despite what may or may not happen with Omega Flight/Alpha Flight in the future, your work proved that there is enough of a fan base out there that is interested in reading a Canadian team book with at least some of Alpha Flight in it. I hope that this has helped turn a corner at Marvel regarding their opinion of the Flight being a lucrative product. In any case, you did your parts extremely well. I really enjoyed reading this series. Good luck with your future projects.
Thanks again.

Very very well said! :D

[Bah!]

the best i have seen these characters look since byrne.

And I second that.

As other's have said -- you did this Sasquatch fan proud -- it was especially exciting for me to see the big guy looking great and so like himself throughout this series.

Thanks for your great work all around guys.

[sengsterooney]

Got it over the weekend, read it and was sad to see it end. Storywise, I felt that the events could have been better contained in 6 issues instead of 5, but all in all, I found it a very satisfactory read, with an ending that leaves it open for the ongoing, which I hope will become reality sooner rather than later.

Thanks to Mike O, Scott K and Brian R and their crew for a job well done and the respect paid to AF -- I hope they'll dip in here to read these messages and perhaps leave one or two comments for us.

[Switchgearman]

Thanks to Michael, Scott & the rest of the people who made it happen (I do wonder how much influence Joe Q had in making it happen - he obviously had to OK it for the mini but did he push it too? - & how differently your stories would've turned out if the series had gone ahead as an ongoing).

I was very excited at first in the initial stages upon hearing it was an ongoing, very disappointed when it turned into a mini (like everyone here) & when OF #1 got near to release, I wondered how good it'll be... whether the tone of the mini would be close to the original AF (i.e., different from other Marvel team books), or not. Or just another team book but based in Canada.

Glad to say it was somewhere in between - a very good read that captured some of the original magic. I do miss the original members though (that appeared in X-Men #120 & 121) like Shaman & Snowbird. Liked what you all did with the new Guardian but I still miss the original - James Hudson is like what Steve Rogers is to Captain America & Peter Parker to Spider-Man... you really can't replace them with another character w/o losing a lot of the magic.

Scott,

I'm getting excited again to hear something's brewing for this team but out of curiosity, what were the sales figures like on average (roughly) for the issues after #1? In the 20-30Ks? 40Ks? I get the impression it sold out quite fast but then again, it could just be a low print run. I ask just to get an idea of Marvel's commitment to do something about the team/s & the characters here.

To all Alphans out there (Alpha Flighters? heh),

When I think of it, the Alpha Flight story can actually make a very good movie don't you think, based somewhat on the original team & Byrne's stories with all the Canadian & native American/Canadian theme, maybe cross over with X-Men or have Wolverine show up. That would be bloody coo-uhl... I'd wet my pants with excitement just seeing Sasquatch show up! Not that it'd happen. I can dream, can't I? Anyway...

Alpha/Beta/Gamma/Omega (& whatever Greek alphabet you want to throw in) FOREVER! I still very much prefer ALPHA FLIGHT - what a name! It immediately conjurs the image of the supreme team.

ALPHA FLIGHT. ALPHA FLIGHT. ALPHA FLIGHT. Just love the name!

[Scott Kolins]

There was one man I forgot to thank before, so I apologize. John Byrne was the main inventor of the Alpha Flight characters and then the AF series (I know others had some involvement) , so I wanted to thank him for putting this together and giving his awesome talents starting one of my favorite books of all time. His AF stories will always be an inspiration to me.

Best,

Scottk.

[Mokole]

True enough, sir. Good luck, and if we're all lucky, we'll get to see your Alpha Flight stories in the near future! Good luck again to all of the people who gave us Flight!

[Beta_Ray_Bill]

No, Scott, thank you! You, Reber, and Oeming are all awesome. I have a real problem thinking about a possible ongoing without you guys spearheading it.

Great job making a great comic that had a lot of unexpected popularity. Good luck with your future projects!

[sengsterooney]

I believe what Mike O, Scot K, Brian R and Andy S have done is set the scene for a revivified Flight team with a fresh start, a history (without the baggage) and a tone to carry into an ongoing (should it be within sight soon). I can think of many other creators who can take their legacy and make it work very well, and will look forward to the opportunity to see OF once more.

Once again, kudos gentlemen!

[Dfense75]

Besides the great joy I have recieved from sharing thoughts and opinions with other Alpha/Omega fans on this sight. Having the creators of Omega showing up here to interact with us has made this an amazing expierience for me. A great job was done by all of them. When this series was downgraded from ongoing to mini. It would have been very easy to do their 5 issues and move on. But they where here from issue #1 till the end and made it a great expierence for me. I have great hope for an ongoing and only hope that the Marvel Comics Presents "Interlude" is the necessary break to getting the same creative team on board for a very long and historic run. They where nothing short of magic and hope from the bottom of my heart that they return as the creative team for the ongoing I so look foward to.

[Transmetropolitan]

Thanks to the entire creative team, sincerely.

You guys had me buying a monthly again- and I never would have seen THAT coming.

Here's hoping you all collaborate again at some point, 'cause I'll be there. ;)

[Le Messor]

I get the impression it sold out quite fast but then again, it could just be a low print run.

Yesterday, in my store, they had me actually working the shop. One of the things they got me to do was to pull older issues off the shelf--and I noticed we had only one issue of Omega. And that was the latest. One copy of one issue.

I began to wonder if people buying multiple copies to drive up sales--without giving them away--were actually doing the series a disservice? Would those copies have gone to new readers?

- Le Messor
"Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

[Scott Kolins]

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share the news:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.co...7078293402.htm

Best,

scottk.

[JayCanuck]

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share the news:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.co...7078293402.htm

Best,

scottk.

lol, link not working

[varo]

well, heres the correct link i guess that explains why scott won't be doing a omega ongoing:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com/features/11877078293402.htm

[Mokole]

Well, I hope your project with Geoff Johns goes very well, no bumps thrown at you like with Omega Flight! Good luck with it and other upcoming projects, maybe you'll get lucky and get offered Alpha Flight freelance! :wink:

[DaVeO]

MARVEL BLEW IT BIG TIME! To think, we had two fans of Alpha Flight both working on Omega (Scott and Mike) and Marvel cut it to a mini. So now Scott leaves Marvel and Mike is on other projects.

Man, I wish it was possible to take Alpha Flight away from Marvel and give it to a publisher who cares. Marvel is like the FOX of comics IMHO.

BTW, good luck on your future endeavors Scott, anything by Geoff Jones and I'm sure to check it out. See you on ComicBloc!

[Snowsquatch]

Hey everyone,

Wanted to share the news:

http://www.silverbulletcomicbooks.co...7078293402.htm
Thanks for your hard work. You will be missed by us.

[Canucklehead]

MARVEL BLEW IT BIG TIME! To think, we had two fans of Alpha Flight both working on Omega (Scott and Mike) and Marvel cut it to a mini. So now Scott leaves Marvel and Mike is on other projects.

Scott, Mike Oeming AND Mike Marts, who is a huge Alpha Flight and the original editor of OF, but moved over to X-Men around the same time it was reduced to a mini.

[Corvus]

Man, its nice to see that the creative talent was just as shocked and probably pissed off at the cut down as we were.

What a mess Marvel's made of a great opportunity.

[Beta Ray Daz]

That blows big time, I only picked up the last two issues last week as i've had a broken leg for 5 weeks and haven't been able to make it to the city to buy comics, so I refused to come online until i'd read them..
All the best to you Scott, you've been greatly appreciated by new and old Alphafans everywhere, thankyou!

[Dfense75]

That blows big time, I only picked up the last two issues last week as i've had a broken leg for 5 weeks and haven't been able to make it to the city to buy comics, so I refused to come online until i'd read them..
All the best to you Scott, you've been greatly appreciated by new and old Alphafans everywhere, thankyou!

LegS? As is plural? As is an both? OUCH DUDE! I hope your feeling better. Was it Skrulls?

[Flightpath07]

That blows big time, I only picked up the last two issues last week as i've had a broken leg for 5 weeks and haven't been able to make it to the city to buy comics, so I refused to come online until i'd read them..
All the best to you Scott, you've been greatly appreciated by new and old Alphafans everywhere, thankyou!

Wow. Broken leg? That sucks.
Did you break it when you kicked a cement block cuz you were so mad at Marvel for not making Omega Flight an ongoing?
And did you then fall off a large bridge, only to be rescued by US Agent (while "Guardian" sat nearby and cried), thereby making you even angrier?
lol

Happy recovery!

[cmdrkoenig67]

And did you then fall off a large bridge, only to be rescued by US Agent (while "Guardian" sat nearby and cried), thereby making you even angrier?
lol

Happy recovery!

Okay...At least FP may be seeing the symbolism that OF/MCP seem to be depicting (even if it's unintentional on Marvel's part).

Dana

P.S. Get well soon, BRD.

[Mokole]

Yes, hope things are healing excellently, Beta Ray Daz.

Well, tomorrow (Saturday) I hope a few Alpha Flight fans get to Toronto Con and get straight answers to, 'Where's the ongoing?'.

My poll results show most of you think not. But hope is at least something.

[Beta Ray Daz]

Wow. Broken leg? That sucks.
Did you break it when you kicked a cement block cuz you were so mad at Marvel for not making Omega Flight an ongoing?
And did you then fall off a large bridge, only to be rescued by US Agent (while "Guardian" sat nearby and cried), thereby making you even angrier?
lol

Happy recovery!

Haha Flightpath! No, I broke it playing field hockey with a stick to the shin. It comes off tomorrow though & hopefully it will have healed well! Going to my regular stores today, both have stairs just to get into them, bugger! Thanks for the kind words everone :)

[Le Messor]

That blows big time, I only picked up the last two issues last week as i've had a broken leg for 5 weeks
LegS? As is plural? As is an both? OUCH DUDE! I hope your feeling better. Was it Skrulls?

Hey! I was nowhere near Bendigo 5 weeks ago!

Anyway, what makes you think I'm a skrull?

- Le Messor
"Every once in a while you should use your backup to make sure it works."
- Mark T. Shirey

[DelBubs]

Isn't a 'Bendigo' the bastard offspring of our Host here at Awaves and some hairy woodland Canadian creature with a penchant for human liver?

[Dfense75]

That blows big time, I only picked up the last two issues last week as i've had a broken leg for 5 weeks
LegS? As is plural? As is an both? OUCH DUDE! I hope your feeling better. Was it Skrulls?

Hey! I was nowhere near Bendigo 5 weeks ago!

Anyway, what makes you think I'm a skrull?

- Le Messor
"Every once in a while you should use your backup to make sure it works."
- Mark T. Shirey

I only asked him if it was A skrull not our skrull. Is this how it begins Le Messor? Do you have a guilty conscience? We'll see if your aliby checks out.

[Oeming]

Scott, youre an amazing artist, easily one of the best, if not, the best Ive worked with. Promise we'll team up again? It was great to meet you at SD and thank you SO much for the page!!

And the rest of you might find this interview interesting- I comment on my Omega Flight experience. Im really proud of the book and a big part of that was because of this board.
M!
http://norestforthewretched.blogspot.com/

[Le Messor]

Mike,

You impressed me. That's not easy (ironically, I'm listening to a song called 'It's So Easy' right now). You too, Scott (and Reber, while we're at it).

I've been noticing your series -- Ares and Blood Oath -- in the store where I work (I'm only working with Marvel back issues at the mo').

Thank you for Omega; I only wish, now that I've read it, there had been more.

Dfense: Guilty conscience? What guilty conscience? What have you heard?

- Mik
"Every opportunity we have to run our R&D scientists and engineers against our customers, we do it."
- Texas Instruments Inc., Dallas

[Mokole]

Sorry to hear so much went wrong at once but I'm glad you got a chance to write Flight. Good luck!

[Beta Ray Daz]

Hey! I was nowhere near Bendigo 5 weeks ago!

Anyway, what makes you think I'm a skrull?

- Le Messor
"Every once in a while you should use your backup to make sure it works."
- Mark T. Shirey

Haha, yeah Bendigo's a bit of a hole.. but at least it's closer to Melbourne than my home town! Got my cast off yesterday.. now i'm hobbling round like an old man, wish I had a walking stick. Not for walking, just to hit people at uni with!

Glad to hear your thoughts Mike, I'm a very pleased Flight fan, thanks so much! All the best mate :)
Oh yeah, all my housemates (none read comics), loved the double page sex spread in Powers #25 haha

[SephirothsKiller]

Scott, youre an amazing artist, easily one of the best, if not, the best Ive worked with. Promise we'll team up again? It was great to meet you at SD and thank you SO much for the page!!

And the rest of you might find this interview interesting- I comment on my Omega Flight experience. Im really proud of the book and a big part of that was because of this board.
M!
http://norestforthewretched.blogspot.com/

Sorry to hear that you've had a rough go of it Mike, I'm glad that it looks things are looking up for you now. Thanks for sticking by us and the book.

[Transmetropolitan]

In light of what happened to the book, Mike...

Thanks for sticking with it.

It wasn't Alpha Flight, but it was a damned fine read. And Mice Templar has my dollar. ;)