A First Look at Eaglesham's Alpha Flight Pt. 1

[cmdrkoenig67]

Marrina's rebellion aside, I'd actually love to see the characters brought back more to their true roots. I'd like to see the power retcons vanish...Marrina being a metamorph (as Kozzi mentioned)...Is actually a retcon (Byrne never had her morphing all over the place and that "ability" also wasn't listed in the original Handbooks) or the twins being speedsters who could fly and run fast is also a retcon. They were meant to be able to fly fast, move at superhuman speeds, but they weren't meant to be Quicksilver/Flash clones...Not to mention, why would you just run fast when you can fly?

Dana

[DIGGER]

... or the twins being speedsters who could fly and run fast is also a retcon. They were meant to be able to fly fast, move at superhuman speeds, but they weren't meant to be Quicksilver/Flash clones...Not to mention, why would you just run fast when you can fly?

Dana

Maybe due to inclement weather or hunting season? Also just another thought, maybe Dan Smallwood is the traitor. Marrina kinda spurned him for Namor so it could be possible that he feels just a touch bitter.

DIGGER

[Le Messor]

I'm with you, but unfortunately it seems to sell. Wolverine being a classic example. I think it works as a plot device, but when the whole book and concept is driven by it...

It's one of those things that works really well when it's the exception.When it's the rule...

Maybe due to inclement weather or hunting season? Also just another thought, maybe Dan Smallwood is the traitor. Marrina kinda spurned him for Namor so it could be possible that he feels just a touch bitter.

I keep thinking I remember seeing the twins running superfast under Byrne... but I'm probably wrong. Uncanny #121?

- Le Messor
"I watched (The Phantom Menace) with a group of cheerleaders, and they all said the same thing: If I let them go, they wouldn't tell anybody."
- Red Letter Phantom Menace review

[cmdrkoenig67]

I keep thinking I remember seeing the twins running superfast under Byrne... but I'm probably wrong. Uncanny #121?

- Le Messor
"I watched (The Phantom Menace) with a group of cheerleaders, and they all said the same thing: If I let them go, they wouldn't tell anybody."
- Red Letter Phantom Menace review

Nope and he just recently addressed this very topic over at the Byrne Robotics forum.

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/f...=2&totPosts=29

[suzene]

Nope and he just recently addressed this very topic over at the Byrne Robotics forum.

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/f...=2&totPosts=29

I was more interested in this:

One of the most gratifying experiences of my convention appearances over the years has been having Gay fans come up to my table and thank me for Northstar. Even tho the Code and Shooter would not let me state explicitly that Jean-Paul was Gay, evidently I was un-subtle enough in my writing of him that the “message” got thru — and at just the right time for a lot of people.

Very encouraging to think that something as generally inconsequential as a comicbook can nevertheless reach out to people in a positive way.

As hard as Byrne is on Alpha Flight, it’s nice to know that he figures something worthwhile came out of the time he spent on the book.

So far as it being a "retcon" goes, I kind of have to shrug. Whatever the authorial intent, what's on the page is ambivalent at best. Plus, Byrne showed the twins being able to move individual body parts at extremely high speeds -- if they can throw one hundred punches in a second, why shouldn't they be able to move at superhuman speeds so far as running goes as well? Granted, I'd be willing to say they can probably fly faster than they can run, though.

[Hankpym]

Nope and he just recently addressed this very topic over at the Byrne Robotics forum.

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/f...=2&totPosts=29

LOL!! That was my question to him....don't tell anyone I am not really Hank Pym!!

[cmdrkoenig67]

LOL!! That was my question to him....don't tell anyone I am not really Hank Pym!!

Of course.

Dana

[Le Messor]

LOL!! That was my question to him....don't tell anyone I am not really Hank Pym!!

You're not?
Wait... how do we know you're not Mel Tormé?

LOL...That's funny, since he's the dipspit that released Bedlam...But you never know.

Under Mantlo, which they've said they're ignoring. Well, kind of.
Oooohh... dip spit... I thought you'd misspelled 'despot'.

I don't think those were blisters but rather "future egg sacks".

Probably;
I'm using 'blisters' as a visual description, and it's not meant to be accurate.

Heh. You just used the words "Aurora" and "alone" in the same sentence.

"... with herselves..."

- Le Messor
"If an MPD threatens suicide, is it considered a hostage situation?"

[Canucklehead]

I added a bit of colour to the Marrina sketch. Nothing major but I think it gives it a bit of life.