I was just musing today, and was wondering: What if John Byrne had continued on Alpha Flight past issue 28? How would the characters have continued to develop?
I think he would have had the team set up a permanent headquarters on Tamarind Island, (he was certainly heading this way in AF #20-21).
He may have had Snowbird become pregnant. This was another storyline he set up during his run, and he seemed in favor of Mantlo's taking it further. Would JB's outcome have been different? Happier? Possibly. He did say on an early message board that the saddest thing about AF after he left was that it became "The Book Where People Died".
But would he have put Heather in the Guardian suit, or have Puck been possessed by Razer, or have the twins supposedly be elves?
I realize JB said in the last issue of his run that he had told all the Alpha stories he had to tell, but it's interesting to speculate about where he might have taken the characters. Does anyone have any ideas on this?