8. Sasquatch can carry a story on his own

8. Sasquatch can carry a story on his own Walter Langkowski's trip to a remote research station in #9–10 is a particularly clear example of how this series works. Most of Alpha Flight is elsewhere. Walt has a scientific problem to investigate, and that problem becomes a fight with the Super-Skrull. Before the punching starts, he has to examine what has happened at the station. His scientific background matters to the story, as does his ability to recognize when the apparent evidence has been arranged to mislead him. Then Sasquatch takes over, and the scale changes considerably. Byrne has a huge, expressive creature to draw against an opponent with the Fantastic Four's combined powers. The fight gets physically ugly. The origin backup in #11 adds Walt's attempt to reproduce a gamma transformation under controlled conditions. The result is the orange, fur-covered form the reader already knows, along with warnings that the experiment was less controlled than he believed. Those questions can stay open for now. In the launch year, Walt works as a scientist, a powerful teammate and somebody whose confidence in understanding his own body may be getting ahead of the evidence. https://t.co/J72PwRO7XN https://t.co/o5HMgRjUwe https://t.co/ffbK5L5Muw