The momentum just keeps on building, and I loved the surprise guest appearances on the last page of the main story.  I could hardly wait to get back to my LCS to see if they had the crossover issue. 

Aurora is just gorgeous and I loved how you handled not only her split-personality but how others react to it.  I'm really enjoying the last moments we see Guardian in action for a while.  Mac was a man after my own heart, a beautiful redhead enters his life and he marries her as quick as can be. 

Yet another classic. These last few Reading Club threads make me remember just how darn good JB's Alpha Flight really was.

And the cover! Man, what more can you say about that? It's one of my favorite comic book covers ever by any artist.

The thing that impressed me about Alpha Flight is how well-defined and three-dimensional the characters were from day one. In most team books, the creators have a general concept for each character (i.e. so-and-so is the leader, this guy is the disgruntled strong man, she's the love interest, etc.), but it takes months or even years for the characters to fully mature.

With Alpha Flight, every character was interesting from the very first issue. This series drew me  in immediately and kept my attention until JB left (I actually kept reading for several more months afterwards, but it never was the same).

It's fascinating -- if very, very frustrating -- to see the way these fan mantras (fantras?) so often run in tandem, while being, apparently, oblivious to each other.



* I still maintain it is impossible for work to look rushed, since there is no way to tell how long a particular page, picture, or issue took to produce. However, there were periods on ALPHA and FF, when Marvel changed the schedules and I actually was rushed, so we could, in this instance, allow this criticism to apply.

Still my "all time" favorite cover, of my own work.

JB, did the cover concept come easily to you or was it more of a struggle? As I've asked before, does this cover qualify under the "with some pages I can remember what I had for breakfast that morning"? If so, what are your memories of creating this great cover?