The Return of Alpha Flight!

[Le Messor]

No lies, at the exact same time I read your post, Bad to the Bone was playing on the radio.

I love it when that happens. Usually with my iPod, which I swear has a sense of humour (and pays a disturbing amount of attention for a machine.)

- Le Messor
"You say potato, I say crazy old guy with a wheelchair of death."
- Wolverine, Astonishing X-Men

[mreeez]

I'll be going to New York Comicon this Saturday and see if I can dig up some more info on the return of the Flight.

[Mokole]

Good luck to you AND Phil, and anyone else!

[cmdrkoenig67]

Have fun at the Con, guys! I wish I could go...I've never been to one.

Dana

[suzene]

Reilly Brown has a height comparison sketch of The Flight up on his DA.

I can't lie, that is some good-looking Alpha Flight. I am a bit thrown by Heather and Marrina's heights, though. Heather looks SO short next to Mac.

[Le Messor]

You can lie Suzene. Just try, try!!!

Yeah, you're right - it does look pretty good. He draws Sasquatch as if he's seen Byrne's designs. First, they put Alpha Flight in an Alpha Flight book, then they actually look at Sasquatch before they draw him? Haven't they read Marvel's policies on Alpha Flight at all?

Also, I agree that the heights are off. If I had more time and less lazy, I'd check the 'One will die' and 'Who will lead' ads from #11 and... 16? respectively. There, Byrne drew a similar pic. There's no Heather next to Mac, but I think she comes up a little higher than his shoulder.

- Le Messor
"His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free."
~ Chuck Smith, Woodbridge

[Flightpath07]

Mac and Sas both look too tall, as does Marrina. Mac is a scientist, not a basketball player!

Good looking pic, tho.

[maniac mike]

Gus Vazquez has a B&W pic of Man-Bot on his DeviantART site...

http://uncle-gus.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2xshnh

[Ahab]

Gus Vazquez has a B&W pic of Man-Bot on his DeviantART site...

http://uncle-gus.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2xshnh

Ugh. Man-Bot. My least favorite Alphan of all-time...

[Bill P]

More so than Major Maple Leaf???

[rplass]

Gus Vazquez has a B&W pic of Man-Bot on his DeviantART site...

http://uncle-gus.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2xshnh

Nice find! I'm a gonna link to it!

Love,
rplass

[DIGGER]

Mac and Sas both look too tall, as does Marrina. Mac is a scientist, not a basketball player!

Good looking pic, tho.

C'mon, if you came back from the dead wouldn't you want to change something about yourself? Maybe Mac wanted to come back taller. (I sure hope he didn't come back to be a Toronto Raptor!)

DIGGER

[Bill P]

Height of characters according tho the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe:

Northstar 5'11" 185 lbs
Aurura 5'11" 125 lbs
Mac 6'2" 190 lbs
Heather 5'5" 120 lbs
Shaman 5'8"
Puck 3'6" 225 lbs (??)
Snowbird 5'10" 108 lbs
Marrina 6' 200 lbs
Sasquatch 10' 2000 lbs

I think the sketch is fairly accurate.

[Le Messor]

@Bill -
Puck was superdense for a while. His body, not his head.

Looks like the sketch is accurate to that, but what about Byrne's canon?
Okay, remember those pictures I was too lazy to look up this morning?
According to them, Heather is as tall as the twins - and they come up to Guardian's chin.
None of them is wearing heels.

Guardian is the tallest (um, 'cept Sas, of course), with Snowbird being a tiny bit shorter than the twins in one picture and a bit taller in the other. She's a shapeshifter, though.
Puck looks a little shorter and less hairier in the second image (but his head's bowed), but the rest are fairly consistent.

- Le Messor
"History books which contain no lies are extremely dull."

[Flightpath07]

How tall is Walter? I seem to recall he was always shown to be the tallest, yet unless he was HUGELY (is that a word?) tall, then how the heck is Mac 6'2"?

I honestly am not too sure about the accuracy of that picture. The scale just seems wrong. I have never noticed Heather to be drawn as a short woman, once she lost the mousy/plain look she originally had she ended up being a tall, leggy woman - not short. Shorter than 6' tall people -definitely. But 5'5"? I don't buy it. If that is the case, then many other artists have never drawn her accurately.