Just got OHOTMU vol. 13 today and we had a BIG AF turnout. Here is who's in it...
Wendigo, Wild Child, Windshear, Witchfire, Wolverine, Wyre & Yukon Jack.
*WHEW*
Just got OHOTMU vol. 13 today and we had a BIG AF turnout. Here is who's in it...
Wendigo, Wild Child, Windshear, Witchfire, Wolverine, Wyre & Yukon Jack.
*WHEW*
That's just the beginning!
In the Weapon X entry, there's also Aurora, Puckbot, and Madison Jeffries.
In the Wild Child entry, there's also Sasquatch and Heather, Northstar and Aurora
In the Wrecking Crew entry, there's also Sasquatch (from Omega Flight!)
In the X-Men entry, there's tiny Northstar in two team illustrations and once again in the Genosha team illustration, Mister Jeffries in the Science Team, and in the headshots, Northstar, Aurora (active as of X-Men: Secret Invasion #2) and Jeffries
and, in the Xavier Institute entry, there's a headshot of Northstar (as an instructor)
Wow, that's a heck of a lot of Alpha Flight!
Love,
rplass
Any new artwork?
No, no new artwork. My notes say:
WildChild:
Main illo changed from WX#4 cover to Wolverine #38 splash
1 illo removed
1 illo stat
7 illo added (!!)
Windshear:
Main illo same except shifted to the left (i.e. the left hand is now visible and the right hand is occluded)
Witchfire:
Main illo became inset, new main illo is Finch cover from X-Infernus #3
two insets stat
Wyre:
same illo
Yukon Jack:
same illo
I don't have notes for the other entries listed in my previous post (yet) but from memory I am very sure there was no new artwork, but some images were not the same as previous entries.
Also, unfortunately, Langkowski was misspelled in the Wild Child entry. ARRRRGHHH. It was spelled right in the last entry for Wild Child! What's the matter with the spell checker thingy!!?!?!!
Love,
rplass
Solicit for a TPB handbook for July 2010: Might have an updated entry for Aurora (last was volume 1 of the Hardcover series) at 240 pages that's fairly serious - some of the rest of the Alpha Babes might make it in!
WOMEN OF MARVEL: CELEBRATING SEVEN DECADES HANDBOOK TPB
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, MIKE O'SULLIVAN & THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK TEAM
Cover by TOM RANEY
This is the year of Marvel’s women, and the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is joining the celebration with this collection of profiles of the brightest female stars in the Marvel firmament! This encyclopedic volume covers the entire span of Marvel Comics and features hundreds of eye-catching characters! Entries include the good (Aurora, Big Bertha, Dazzler, Psylocke, Squirrel Girl), the bad (Hela, Moonstone, Selene, Titania, Viper) and everyone in-between (Gamora, Millie the Model, May Parker, Valeria Richards, Typhoid). This is a vital resource for any fan of the Women of Marvel!
240 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
Well, the final issue , #14 of the Hardcover series is out today! Running over the originally planned 12 issues to issue #14 and over year late, the series is finally over!
No entries for Alpha Flight in this one, although there ought to have been. This issue was the final clean-up of entries that didn't make it into the previous 13 issues. It's frustrating since so many other entries made it in, example: Frogs of Central Park had an entry, but not Manikin? Please. Frogs of Central Park?
Anyway, Alpha Flight members did get some cameo appearances:
Mister Jeffries and Wild Child appear in the entry for the Zodiac in a small image
Sasquatch, Marrina, Aurora and Northstar appear in the entry for the Collector's Zoo, in a small image taken from the cover of Marvel Team-Up Annual #7.
Love,
rplass
Just so no one buys under false pretences - there will be a small amount of updating to some entries, but this is primarily a reprint volume. Obviously I hope it sells well, but I don't want anyone to buy it and then be disappointed.Originally Posted by rplass
Solicit for a TPB handbook for July 2010: Might have an updated entry for Aurora (last was volume 1 of the Hardcover series) at 240 pages that's fairly serious - some of the rest of the Alpha Babes might make it in!
WOMEN OF MARVEL: CELEBRATING SEVEN DECADES HANDBOOK TPB
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, MIKE O'SULLIVAN & THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK TEAM
Cover by TOM RANEY
This is the year of Marvel’s women, and the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is joining the celebration with this collection of profiles of the brightest female stars in the Marvel firmament! This encyclopedic volume covers the entire span of Marvel Comics and features hundreds of eye-catching characters! Entries include the good (Aurora
240 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
The Frogs got an entry because the final volume included most of the entries from the Marvel Pets handbook. It wasn't an entry done specifically for this volume. There were some brand new entries, but various factors impacted on who got them. One of them, and one which reduced the chances of some of the remaining Alphans not yet covered in this series of appearing in this volume, was that we can now get brand new art for some entries, but we couldn't get it for the hardcover run. A couple of entries initially planned for this volume got bumped once we got the new art option, because they didn't have what you'd call ideal images available; the plan is to cover them down the line, with new art. Manbot, who turned up in AZ Update #1 a few months ago, was one such instance - pushing him back to that book meant he missed out on a place in HC #14, but got a nice new image. Some more of his fellow Alphans will be following suit later this year.
Bad call on my part... Mac was mentioned in the text, but not shown in the illustration, which was a new one of a generic Quwrlln. The Quwrlln only got a 1/2 page entry, so there wasn't any room for additional images.
Love,
rplass
This issue has entries for Aurora, Snowbird and Vindicator, but all ended up being reprints.Solicit for a TPB handbook for July 2010: Might have an updated entry for Aurora (last was volume 1 of the Hardcover series) at 240 pages that's fairly serious - some of the rest of the Alpha Babes might make it in!
WOMEN OF MARVEL: CELEBRATING SEVEN DECADES HANDBOOK TPB
Written by JEFF CHRISTIANSEN, MIKE O'SULLIVAN & THE OFFICIAL HANDBOOK TEAM
Cover by TOM RANEY
This is the year of Marvel’s women, and the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe is joining the celebration with this collection of profiles of the brightest female stars in the Marvel firmament! This encyclopedic volume covers the entire span of Marvel Comics and features hundreds of eye-catching characters! Entries include the good (Aurora
240 PGS./Rated T+ …$19.99
Aurora's entry is identical to the one in the Hardcover series issue #1 with the exception of her team affiliation adding the X-Men, as revealed in issue #13 of the Hardcovers. No mention of her participation in Secret Invasion nor her current status as COO of Northstar's company.
Snowbird's entry is identical to the one in the Hardcover series #10, with the exception of a slight rearrangement of the main illustration and an inset picture. No mention of her recent adventure in Marvel Heartbreakers #1.
Vindicator's entry is identical to the one in the Hardcover series #12. Still apparently dead.
So nothing new as far as info, even where warranted. I was disappointed there weren't entries for many of the other Alpha babes too, oh well.
Love,
rplass
On the 18th of this month the OHOTMU Update issue 3 is supposed to come out with Brain Drain, Murmur & Collective/Guardian IV/Weapon Omega/Omega entries in it!
It's already on the Alpha Calendar!
Love,
rplass
It's out and yes, Murmur gets a 1/2 pg entry. Like Manbot, she had never had an entry before, so this is awesome. New artwork too and some minor changes in her official stats.
Love,
rplass
I'm still waiting for Flashback to get an entry!
Yeah, Flashback wasn't covered in the newer set of handbooks, but he did get a small entry in the Deluxe Edition Handbook (#9) way back in 1986.
Love,
rplass
It's not really a handbook but deserves a mention: Alpha Flight members appear in the Super Heroes file-book for Heroic Age:
The characters have 1/3 page entries in files-format as narrated by Steve Rogers:
Aurora, Sasquatch, Northstar, Talisman and Snowbird have entries, with little head shots as images. Their power stats are replaced with creepy new-age stats like 'altruism' and 'courage', whatever, they all get high scores and it was nice to have them included.
Love,
rplass
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