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"It's crap like that that explains why Byrne is nothing today,"

JB, do you ever feel a little like George Lucas? I mean, guys like this must feel that you "raped their childhood" to bother being so bitter, right?

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I'm sure glad you did throw that stone in the pool JB.
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A very memorable issue and a great read.

I wonder how the contingent of readers who don't read the narrative captions deal with the snowstorm page?

i really like the arrangement of the panels in the sequence where 'the combatants tumble, as trees crack and boulders roll before them' -- I get a definite sense of things rolling towards me.
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I remember thinking how cool that issue was. Very clever way to tell that story.
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How many of you are aware that I did, indeed, do layouts -- light and quick -- for those panels? I wanted to be sure the "flow" worked, even if the readers were not going to see it!
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I didn't know this -- but I did wonder! Thanks for the info; always glad to find out a little nugget like this.
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SO tired of the "did it to meet a deadline" crap.

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I had already stopped buying comics when this came out , so when I got JB's run on Alpha Flight last year I didn't know about all of the "hub-bub" over that issue. I thought that issue was smart and exciting, never once did it enter my mind that it was gimmicky or anything else.
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It's particularly galling to be singled out as "gimmicky" in a month that was one big gimmick.

This is the inherent danger of gags like this. The farther from the "event," the more difficult to view it in context.

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ALPHA FLIGHT is a really wonderful series, and this is the article they write?  An unfair representation of an amazing series that hit a lot of high points.  And that sequence was one of them -- regardless of the gimmick intent, it still holds up as an cool and unique sequence.



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ALPHA FLIGHT is a really wonderful series, and this is the article they write?

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That I can excuse, since they were apparently inspired by the approaching blizzard.

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I wasn't sure if I remembered hearing you'd done layouts for those pages, JB, but I've always been certain you knew exactly where Snowbird and Kolomaq were and what action was happening.
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