Alpha Flight stuff at NYCC 2013

[rplass]

I had a really great time at NYCC, picked up a nice haul of Alpha Flight stuff and other fun stuff for kid rplass (who is now 8 and reading comics 24/7!!!).

OK right to the pictures since that's what it's all about. Best and only Alpha Flight cosplay I saw was a Puck who seemed like a really cool guy and looked fantastic in a great costume:



I also got some great close up shots of the new Alpha Flight Heroclix. They had Northstar, Aurora and Snowbird in the case but unfortunately there was a huge Juggernaut Heroclix in front of Snowbird so I couldn't get any clean shots of her. Here are the Aurora and Northstar pics which you can click on to embiggen.



Also Josh Siegel, a.k.a. Rogan Josh was there, a NYC graphic artist who did a really great piece of Alpha Flight, and he was selling prints so I picked one up:



More info about the print on his website http://modhero.blogspot.com/2012/08/alpha-flight.html Notice all the characters: Flashback, Diamond Lil, Heather, Wild Child, Marrina, Box, Sasquatch, Puck, Guardian, Snowbird, Shaman, Northstar and Aurora. What an image! He sells these prints from his website on that link if you want to pick one up.



Also there was Uncanny X-Force artist Ramon Perez who was also very cool and we were laughing at all the Puck ass-kicking he drew. He brought his portfolio with the cover art to Uncanny X-Force up to issue #17, which has not yet been released by Marvel!!!! so I got a sneak peek at the cover art for a few issues. Puck is on one of the upcoming covers in an amazing "boot in your face" pose. It is really such a great image and you will be really happy to see it! Basically it's two columns of super heroes squaring off and Puck is on the bottom of the right column, except inverted because he's in this cool acrobatic mid-ass-kicking pose! He also had the artwork there from Wolverine & the X-Men #29 page with Northstar (previously mentioned here) and I told him how I loved the pointy ears!

Also I picked up the splash from Reilly Brown's Chaos War Alpha Flight #1:



and he was happy to pose with me to celebrate!



If you're wondering yes that's a MLP lanyard I'm wearing. Anyway, Reilly mentioned that he had used alphaflight.net as a resource to get good images of the characters. Wow, isn't that neato!?!? We were talking about the issue, and he also said they originally wanted to copy Byrne's black and white version of portraying the Great Beasts (as in Alpha Flight #24) but with modern coloring techniques, it didn't seem as if it would work, so they went with the full color version for the Great Beasts instead. He also seemed really happy to have been part of the team that brought back Alpha Flight from the dead.

Well that was a lot of fun and I'm glad to have had the chance to meet these guys and also I got a whole bunch of other stuff for the Alpha Flight collection.