First Snowstorm of the Year

Yesterday, a foot and a half of snow fell on my area. To commemorate the promise of white Christmas, here are pages from the famous "Snowblind" issue of Alpha Flight (#6).
 
 
 
 
Sure, John Byrne was writing AND drawing two Marvel series at the same time, but not without some very cheap tricks!

Comments

Delta said…
Never saw that, thanks so much for posting it.
December 16, 2013 at 12:35 PM
Siskoid said…
You were snowblind!
December 16, 2013 at 1:41 PM
SallyP said…
The inking was amazing!
December 16, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Siskoid said…
You bet! Byrne inks himself!

Also excellent: Colorist Andy Yanchus.

Serious credit given to Letterer Michael Higgins.
December 16, 2013 at 4:47 PM
Brad said…
Kurtzman did it first, in "Wreck of the Hesperus"
December 17, 2013 at 1:52 AM
Siskoid said…
Gets cheaper and cheaper, doesn't it?
December 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM
Ken Begg said…
A little context would be fair. This was printed during Marvel's "Assistant Editor Month," the gag being that all the regular editors were out of town. The idea was that the inmates were running the asylum, so each comic that month had something wacky going on. This was the joke in Alpha Flight that month.
December 17, 2013 at 10:22 AM
Siskoid said…
Yes, I believe I made a reference to it in one of the mouseover jokes. I was just being cheeky.

Of course, it doesn't change the fact that other issues of Alpha Flight in Byrne's run repurposed the art from their first appearance in Uncanny X-Men, or recapped the first year using much the same trick in #13.
December 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Ken Begg said…
Nope, but this, this was a funny gag.
December 17, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Doc Savage said…
Alpha Flight was pretty awesome for the first six or eight issues.
December 24, 2013 at 2:03 PM
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