• ALPHA FLIGHT (2023) #4 Preview - SPOILERS FOR #3

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    Marvel have released a four page preview of next week's ALPHA FLIGHT #4 - the penultimate issue of the Fall of X miniseries.

    WARNING: THESE PAGES SPOIL ISSUE 3'S ENDING

    ALPHA FLIGHT #4 (OF 5)
    ED BRISSON (W) • SCOTT GODLEWSKI (A) • MATT MILLA (Col) • TRAVIS LANHAM (L)
    COVER BY LEONARD KIRK & EDGAR DELGADO • HOMAGE VARIANT COVER BY RON LIM & ISRAEL SILVA
    NO MUTANT IS SAFE!
    ALPHA FLIGHT is boxed in by the very BOX SENTINELS they serve with! What secret agenda causes this schism within DEPARTMENT H, and how does it involve the mutants of Krakoa? Find out in the latest installment of the most surprise-packed series in the FALL OF X era!
    PLUS: Discover the fate of the hero known as NEMESIS!
    32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99
    ON-SALE 11/15/23




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    1. rplass's Avatar
      rplass - 11-17-2023
      The sequence with the 'salve' - kind of a lost opportunity here. Shaman just reached below the frame into his bag and pulled out... something? I recall seeing many, many very cool panels of him pulling some amazing stuff out of his bag, resplendent with magical glowing lights and impossible physics (staffs that are 6 feet long etc), uttering magical words from his grandfather's spirit, really pulling from the Sarcee rituals. Here he just reaches down, nothing shown. That medicine bag is so iconic. It's Cap's Shield. It's Mjolnir. It's Superman's Cape. I think Shaman's bag should have been spotlighted with some buildup and fanfare that it deserves.

      Then in the next panel, presumably he applies some 'salve'? This could have been so cool - some real Hallowe'en level spirit powers to boost her life force, but we get nothing visually, with his hands out of the frame. And where exactly on Nemesis' body is he slathering this 'salve'? With her facing away from him in a fetal position I would assume it's an odd arrangement.

      The other lost opportunity panel was the kiss. I was really hoping it were Michael's lips gently kissing Nemesis there, not Mac.

      He practically raised her as a daughter, you'd think a moment of tenderness there would be appropriate.

    1. Le Messor's Avatar
      Le Messor - 11-17-2023
      You make a good point, Rob.
    1. Phil's Avatar
      Phil - 11-19-2023
      The injury from the blast was on her back, so the application of the salve makes sense.
      Kinda agree that something mythical would have made more sense and looked cooler, but maybe Michael was dumbing it down for the audience...

      And I think given the context of the last 'few years' Mac being the more concerned party makes sense to me, especially with Michael's trademark coldness when it comes to his actual daughter.

      I saw the scene as a balance of his spiritual and clinical sides.