Article: The Future Of Alpha Flight?

[Phil]

Isn't that just a Carol Corps starburst shoulder patch? Wasn't there a different one for AF?

One on each shoulder?

On second look, is that a (red) pointy ear or from a helmet/mask?

Yeah, I thought base colour for a shadowed pointy ear...

Stretching out of hope, I know...

[Le Messor]

Yeah, I thought base colour for a shadowed pointy ear...

Depends on if that's her hair around it.

[Canucklehead]

Hmm... Do I see an redesigned Aurora Starburst costume?

Based on what little there was to go on and using CM's body proportions, this is what I came up with:

http://s13.postimg.org/indqrlo7b/Aurora.jpg

[-K-M-]

Talent. Well done.

[Le Messor]

Yes, well done!

[Canucklehead]

Well the ears do align... Does this change anyone's opinion?
Aurora? Another Hero? Just a staff worker/pilot?
What I thought was her neck ended up being what looks like fur collar from a pilots jacket.

[Phil]

Well, CBR have an exclusive preview of next week's Ultimates #1 that doesn't answer the question either way... but the use of quotation marks puts me back in the worry category...

[Le Messor]

Well the ears do align... Does this change anyone's opinion?

You did a great bit of fan art there - but unless you're actually working on the comic (and you might be, I don't know!) - it can't change my mind. It's just telling me what that drawing might look like if it was Aurora, not showing me the actual rest of the drawing.

The ears aligning actually works against it, since the way I'm reading the perspective, the character behind CM shouldn't line up that way.

One wing housing the ground crew for the "Alpha Flight" program-- one wing acting as the new Wakandan Embassy in New York -- one wing to wule them all, one wing to bind them--

It's not the quotation marks that worry me (on the next previewed page, they put Captain Marvel in quotation marks, and you see some really strange uses of the things, even in a professional context). It's the phrasing 'ground crew for the... program'. None of that sounds to me like it's a random Canadian superteam - that all sounds like a bunch of random pilots.

And that means, if I wrote it, there'd be a bunch of stuff about 'This is ground crew to Captain Marvel - take your proton pills and put your helmet on.'

~ Le Messor
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[Phil]

It's been referred to as the Flight Program before, back in the early stages and again when there was a Beta, Gamma, etc... so that doesn't worry too much yet.
And we've seen a lot of Dept. H workers in the past; AF need a support staff - especially if they're now going to be flying spaceships all the time.

*crossing all my digits and trying to convince myself*

[Canucklehead]

The ears aligning actually works against it, since the way I'm reading the perspective, the character behind CM shouldn't line up that way.

If you look at the original, it does line up because the character behind CM is either taller or standing on something. I didn't resize any thing, just finished the top of the head/hair.

It's been referred to as the Flight Program before

Remember in the Omega Flight book, where Guardian was referred to as "The Guardian"? Good times.

[Le Messor]

It's been referred to as the Flight Program before, back in the early stages and again when there was a Beta, Gamma, etc... so that doesn't worry too much yet.
And we've seen a lot of Dept. H workers in the past; AF need a support staff - especially if they're now going to be flying spaceships all the time.

All true.

[Phil]

http://www.newsarama.com/26688-the-u...w-ongoing.html

while Carol's currently running Alpha Flight, which is Earth's premier space agency.

Hope...fading...

[Le Messor]

Hope...fading...

With you.

[cmdrkoenig67]

Arrrrrgh!

[Mokole]

Sounds more and more like they lied, but we still don't know for sure.