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My condolences to you for your loss.

I might be the only one, but I was glad when the Jade Dragon and China Force got written out of Alpha Flight. And it didn't take long. I was really glad when Hudnall reversed Michael-as-'Talisman'...

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#66 summarized the farce that was the Mantlo era: the character 'Knapp' is spared from an unpleasant fate in a way that the original characters weren't.

Ahhh, CJ and Tawmis, I went back and actually looked at/read # 54. I should never post before checking, first. One day, I'll learn...



I like "Garry the Effortless", although [unintentional]...

Although not Alpha or comic-related, but something just doesn't seem quite right...





The thing about Goblyn, for me, is she ends up looking like the way she does but her father is the true...

CJ, I won't leave your thread forever because there is still lots of stuff to talk (gripe) about concerning volume 1...and I don't really know anything about the subject that Le Messor is concerned...

It did, and Al Milgrom's inking has a lot to do with it.



Judd is the only one who didn't get mind-bombed (probably because he wasn't officially an Alphan, anymore). As for Purple Girl, # 61...

I dislike the Mantlo era whenever I (try to) read it. It just sucks...sorry, I don't know how to sugar-coat it.

Way back when, I think somebody said "Let's make Alpha Flight a horror book", but somebody heard "Let's make Alpha Flight a horrible book."

* DreamQueen's assault on Alpha Flight seems pretty...

Unlike me, there are a lot of real die-hard Alphans who stuck through the entire run, real-time [Tawmis is one, I believe], and I agree with Phil: Mantlo's run does get better, once Alpha Flight is...

You are, most definitely.

BTW, I agree with Le Messor about mentioning the origins of Heather's first suit (something that Heather herself should have been keenly aware of before putting it on).

Jaxon beat the crap out of Mac/Mac's suit, which was the major reason why he died.

But Heather (1) KILLED Snowbird [shot her in the back], (2) caused Michael/Shaman/Talisman/whoever to quit the...

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I think it does: Roger and Mr. Jeffries used remnants of Delphine Courtney to build Heather's suit.


Only if the writer were deliberately trying to do something totally...

On p. 11 of # 53, Bedlam claims to be James' "only begotten son" ('though this is probably more figuratively than literally), and then on p. 21 Bedlam is shown to be a woman (but that could've been...

This is where it's a stretch for me. I like Pestilence as a villain, but he's not Doctor Doom and he's not Magneto: he's a guy who had been buried unmoving in the ground for over 100 years who...

I know I'm constantly traumatized by the Mantlo run. G/A-F

No, I get mad when inane stuff happens and people are supposed to just take it. As mentioned, over 22 issues of this stuff...MARVEL must've known what it was publishing. At a time when DC comics...

I'm sad that it's not just me.

CJ, I haven't gotten how to do the multiple "reply with quotes" like everybody else, but all the comments posted about # 52 (and the warning that Phil mentioned)...

I can relate, CJ.

Different people have different interpretations of ALPHA FLIGHT, but I agree whole-heartedly with your assessment of why the illogical grouping.

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CJ, I agree with Phil; the later Mantlo run is better than the earlier part. Bare in mind this is faint praise, though; it's Alpha-lite.

One decision keeps popping up for me about AF# 44: if your leader (Heather) or your team-mates (Judd and Jeffries) KNOW that your powers are going to get negated if you touch your sibling, why on...

I can only guess that the reason these things were allowed to happen is because the editor(s)/publisher green-lighted/approved them to happen.
In the 80's I couldn't take it anymore (#55), quit...

Naw...you're not the only one who is really passionate about Alpha Flight...and the terrible things that have been done to them.

Going off on tangents happens from time to time, but usually...

I'm one who dislikes the Mantlo era (which encompasses, unfortunately, the fill-in issue (#63) James Hudnall wrote before taking over the series), not only because it deviated so much from the plans...

This is just me, but a second Pestilence story makes absolutely no sense. Accepting Pestilence (a mortal from the 19th century) somehow hijacked the essence of a quarter-breed transmorph (aka...