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

[Le Messor]

I just can't help noticing that 'character development' in comics these days seems to always mean 'darker and edgier'.
After a while, 'darker and edgier' comes to mean 'generic'.

- Le Messor
"i souport publik edekasion"

[cmdrkoenig67]

I just can't help noticing that 'character development' in comics these days seems to always mean 'darker and edgier'.
After a while, 'darker and edgier' comes to mean 'generic'.

- Le Messor
"i souport publik edekasion"

Yeah..Darker and edgier is the norm now...It's become rather boring IMHO.

Dana

[Ahab]

Yeah..Darker and edgier is the norm now...It's become rather boring IMHO.

Dana

Though edgier Marrina has potential if Dan Smallwood is brought back. I would love to see him come back.
I also hope Marrina shows her electrocution powers. She never exhibited them personally, but since the Plodex have been shown to have the ability, it makes sense she would.
I am looking forward to seeing character development for her instead of her just being a plotpoint to develop someone else.

[DelBubs]

Yeah..Darker and edgier is the norm now...It's become rather boring IMHO.

Dana

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...

[kozzi24]

Marrina may not have morphed "all over the place" under Byrne, but she did exhibit slight biological changes. The Plodex race itself could adapt to its surroundings, such as Marrina taking human form. The Plodex in Lake Ontario also seemed to be metamorphing. To me, Byrne opened the door to the possibility with those things. Some post Byrne changes make perfect sense.
I love almost all of Byrne’s work, but especially on his boards he is more concerned with being right than in making correct statements.
There is common sense to "why run fast when you can fly faster?" But there is an answer: space. Byrne said "Northstar was just flying close to the ground" in X-Men 121. Didn’t look that way to me. For an Alpha citation of superspeed running by Byrne, how fast did Aurora change clothes in that scene in Walt’s apartment? Should we think she changed clothes while flying indoors? Makes me wonder just how SLOWLY they can fly to stay airborn.
I think there’s also a shared core of powers to Northstar and Aurora, so I never minded any of the extra abilities Auroradeveloped with the light powers. In AF#1, Byrne established that the light powers can affect the Ems of Guardian’s suit. That opens the door to there being a lot more to the light powers than Byrne explored. They may be twins, but they seemed to develop their powers slightly differently. Aurora developed individual light powers after Byrne’s "mutant alteration" storyline, so it is natural that she could do more varied things with the light.

[MistressMerr]

For an Alpha citation of superspeed running by Byrne, how fast did Aurora change clothes in that scene in Walt’s apartment? Should we think she changed clothes while flying indoors?

Why not? Super speed is super speed. Running seems pretty pointless, a lot more work for no real reason.

Makes me wonder just how SLOWLY they can fly to stay airborn.

As slow as they want. They can even hover if they want to.

[kozzi24]

Why not? Super speed is super speed. Running seems pretty pointless, a lot more work for no real reason.


As slow as they want. They can even hover if they want to.

Super-speed flight in an apartment would be slower than flight, and allow for navigation.

Are there on-panel references to them hoverig in flight?

[Le Messor]

Super-speed flight in an apartment would be slower than flight, and allow for navigation.

Are there on-panel references to them hovering in flight?

From Byrne's era?
I'm having trouble recalling.

There's this:


Thanks to Mokole.

Post shapeshift Marrina had a little more than blisters - sharp pointy teeth, for one thing
, and her musculature seemed to change.

I hope Phil isn't the boy Wonder Twin, because ugh...
I've read those issues of Titans.

And now I don't read Titans any more.

- Le Messor
"I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter."