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!
Never saw that, thanks so much for posting it.
ReplyDeleteYou were snowblind!
ReplyDeleteThe inking was amazing!
ReplyDeleteYou bet! Byrne inks himself!
ReplyDeleteAlso excellent: Colorist Andy Yanchus.
Serious credit given to Letterer Michael Higgins.
Kurtzman did it first, in "Wreck of the Hesperus"
ReplyDeleteGets cheaper and cheaper, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteA 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.
ReplyDeleteYes, I believe I made a reference to it in one of the mouseover jokes. I was just being cheeky.
ReplyDeleteOf 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.
Nope, but this, this was a funny gag.
ReplyDeleteAlpha Flight was pretty awesome for the first six or eight issues.
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