[Spoiler alert if you haven't read issue #4 yet!]

For the past few weeks, I've been raving about a sequence from Alpha Flight #6, describing it as "nothing you've ever seen from Dale in his 25-year career." I also mentioned that "it's not what you think," that "you'll never guess what it is" and that "it's not about content."

It's about style, my friends, and getting a rare opportunity to let loose!!!

When I read the following passage in the script for issue 6, I knew Dale would have a total blast drawing this scene:

Flashback. (Storybook feel here. Dale, let’s go crazy here and actually illustrate this like a kid’s book, with cute, simple characters with big heads. Also, see Byrne’s “Alpha Flight” v1 #3 for the original telling of this tale.) A NEOLITHIC HUNTER with a black beard sits near a fire in a cave surrounded by other cavemen wrapped in crude clothing made of animal skins. The First Caveman, whose eyes are sharp and intelligent and who sits up with a modern man’s posture, glowers at the others, who are hunched like pre-humans, gnawing at bones, stupid expressions on their faces.

Dale hasn't gotten to use a playful style since he started out as a professional comic book artist in 1986, but in fact it's something that comes very naturally to him. If you haven't already read our blog entry entitled "From the Time Capsule," I encourage you to do so - fun stuff in there!

So without further ado, these are the two pages I was talking about. Enjoy!

Wolfie