Article: Alpha Flight To Be Part Of New Captain Marvel Series? *UPDATED*

[Phil]

If people are going to pick up Avengers #0 based on the information I was given yesterday, they may want to check the article I just published: http://alphaflight.net/content.php?8...f-Alpha-Flight

[DMK]

The main thing I take from the video is "SWORD is now Alpha Flight." Say what? How in the world does that end up happening? Canada's national super-team ends up taking over extra-terrestrial defense of the planet? I really hope they'll explain this...

[Phil]

Semi-Related-ish:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2015/10/...phase-iii-news

[Le Messor]

One of my first reactions was, 'but the Phase III movies have been announced!'. The article covers that. (Though I don't know the dates of the other movies, so I don't know if they've been pushed forwards or back. Technically, in this context, I don't know if forwards means earlier or later, either, but that's just me.)

Bleeding Cool[/URL]]Ant Man and The Wasp makes no bones about delaying Hope Van Dyne’s costumed debut any longer.

Well, of course it makes no bones. Insects are invertebrates!

Bleeding Cool[/URL]]The company also announced three 2020 dates: May 1st, July 10th and November 6th. None of these dates as of yet have films attached.

I love this! So, we'll be having those dates in 2020, will we? Interesting. And a movie company decided it? Not a calendar company?
(There has got to be an Iron Man 2020!)

I know what they mean, it's just a very amusing way of putting it.

~ Le Messor
"By ignorance the truth is known."
~ Henry Suso, The Little Book of Truth

[Phil]

The First 5 issues of the series are on sale digitally for 75% off today:
https://www.comixology.com/Marvel_Ca...ale/page/13151

[Phil]

Well, looks like Danvers is leaving the space program - what this means for AF is unclear: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/a...ic-series.html

[-K-M-]

Good. The Space program concept was a bust. I was one of the few who didn’t mind the change and was super excited about it. Really thought it would be so much more

after the initial volume the writing was not my cup of tea and I lost all excitement and hype

[Le Messor]

There's a new writer as well, I believe.

Why is the New York Times writing about this?

~ Le Messor
"The reward of a thing well done is to have it done."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Phil]

I don't think it was a complete bust; Puck, Sas and the name Alpha Flight probably have the most exposure they've had since the 80's.

I agree that it didn't quite stick as well as it could have, and the change in creative team probably added to that.

I enjoyed it on the whole, I wish it had been established more clearly how the home/away teams worked and that Danvers was only boss of the Space division, but I get why it wasn't.

And newspaper press releases are pretty common now, since the Disney merger, especially when they're tied to the MCU characters.