Has Anyone Seen This Pic Before?

[Legerd]

I just stumbled across this Mike Mignola artwork featuring Alpha Flight. Has this been posted before 'cause I don't remember it? It's just beautiful!

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[Dfense75]

I have only recently taken to Mike Mignola's art. That is a damn nice piece. Thanks for sharing.

[Flightpath07]

WOW!

That IS nice.

Nope, ne'er seen it b'fore.

[cmdrkoenig67]

Yes, I first saw a few years back...And yes, it is beautiful.

Dana

[Le Messor]

Where'd you see it, Dana? I never have.

- Le Messor
"I ponder my principal principles in my cubical cubicle."
~ Mark T. Shirey

[Phil]

I'm pretty sure it's been posted round these parts before...

[Le Messor]

Maybe I forgot?

That doesn't sound like me. I never forget any

what was I saying?
Oh, never mind, never mind...

- Le Messor
"Even the biggest elephant never forgets."
~ Spinal Tap

[DaVeO]

Beautiful composition and my preferred costumes for Shaman and Aurora. Thanks for sharing, I'm a huge Mignola fan.

[Ahab]

Beautiful composition and my preferred costumes for Shaman and Aurora. Thanks for sharing, I'm a huge Mignola fan.

Yes, but Aurora looks like she has been working out WAY too much on the thigh-master. Body proportions are a little off, but this is a great piece.

[kozzi24]

Yes, but Aurora looks like she has been working out WAY too much on the thigh-master. Body proportions are a little off, but this is a great piece.

People seem to lose sight of this because of her light powers, but Aurora is a speedster. It makes perfectr sense that she's have powerful thighs that could crush a man's hea--um, crush a coconut.

[MistressMerr]

People seem to lose sight of this because of her light powers, but Aurora is a speedster. It makes perfectr sense that she's have powerful thighs that could crush a man's hea--um, crush a coconut.
A speedster: yes. A runner: no.

[Le Messor]

Besides, even runners are lean, not chunky.

[cmdrkoenig67]

Where'd you see it, Dana? I never have.

- Le Messor
"I ponder my principal principles in my cubical cubicle."
~ Mark T. Shirey

I saw it while Googling for Alpha Flight art a long while back. I keep thinking it's been posted here before too, but I'm sure I'm misremembering that.

Dana

Oops, sorry Phil...I didn't see your post about it possibly being posted here before.

[Le Messor]

I saw it while Googling for Alpha Flight art a long while back. I keep thinking it's been posted here before too, but I'm sure I'm misremembering that.
Dana

I'm not remembering, and a search for Mike Mignola isn't turning up an obviously-named thread, but I could've seen it and forgotten.
I could also have simply missed it.
('sides, Phil's backing you up.)

- Le Messor
"I spent a good part of my allowance on this new cream rinse and it's neither creamy nor rinsey."
~ Buffy

[Phil]

It might have been on the previous version of the board, or even on the mailing list/yahoogroup or I too may have seen it and saved it from somewhere and just presumed it was here.
I don't quite have the memory of a whatsitcalled these days.
Big thing.
Grey.
Trunk.
You know...

[Le Messor]

Railway car?

[cmdrkoenig67]

A tree?

[Phil]

A Volvo! That's it...

[Mokole]

I don't know, a Volvo? Really? Big, grey, with a trunk sounds more like an elephant, or a Senator.

[Le Messor]

I thought senators were blue?

[Phil]

They've got purple bits as well.

Or is that a Sentinel?

[DelBubs]

They've got purple bits as well.

Or is that a Sentinel?
Not an expert on giant robots, but would the Master Mold actually give them bits, purple or otherwise. Surely as he could produced Sentinels from his belly, the need for 'bits' would be moot. As I said though, not actually an expert...

[Le Messor]

Not an expert on giant robots, but would the Master Mold actually give them bits, purple or otherwise. Surely as he could produced Sentinels from his belly, the need for 'bits' would be moot. As I said though, not actually an expert...

I think you know too much already.

[Chris]

That Mignola Alpha Flight print is posted here http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=69192&GSub=8249

I bought one of the 11x17 prints from ebay back around 1999. I always wondered if that was going to be the cover of the Alpha Flight graphic novel that Bill Mantlo and Mike Mignola were planning. I could have sworn Mantlo was going to do the whole Alpha Flight, Marrina, Sub-Mariner, Avengers story in a graphic novel but they ended up telling the story in the pages of Alpha Flight instead. Maybe someone else on this forum knows?

The below quotes I found at Jason Shayer's website (http://marvel1980s.blogspot.com) shed some interesting light on Mike Mignola's experience on Alpha Flight and the graphic novel.


Mignola: I didn’t want to do Alpha Flight at all. I think I said ‘no’ three or four times, but Bill talked me into it. I did three issues and hated almost every second of it.
I wasn’t cut out to do superheroes. For a while there, I jauted hated to get out of bed in the morning. It was really awful.

Apparently while he did quit the title after drawing a handful of issues, Mignola had planned a Sub-Mariner graphic novel with Mantlo, but it never went beyond the planning stages.

Mignola: We were working on some ideas – a Sub-Mariner graphic novel (that turned into an Alpha Flight graphic novel) based on a story idea of mine. Editor Carl Potts turned that into a Death of the Sub-Mariner graphical novel so that, of course, didn’t get done.

http://marvel1980s.blogspot.com/2010/06/1986-alpha-flight.html

And the Alpha Flight 16 unpublished cover is featured on there today

http://marvel1980s.blogspot.com/2012/03/1984-alpha-flight-16-unpublished-cover.html

Love his website of 80's stuff.