Alpha Flight Questionnaire

[Mokole]

1. How long have you been collecting Alpha Flight? Not a collector really, just a fan

2. What was your first memory of Alpha Flight? If recent, what was your first reaction? Canadian team with varied members

3. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight character? Box (Jeffries) and Feedback, then Puck.

4. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight character? Right now, Marinna, never liked the character much.

5. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight villain? Still Dreamqueen or Master.

6. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight villain? Not sure really.

7. What do you think is the best issue / story-arch from Alpha Flight? Now? Registration storyline, really told an interesting, new story.

8. What do you consider the Alpha Flight "Dream Team"? Now? Puck, Guardian, Box, Feedback, Ghost Girl, Nemesis, Killjoy, Talisman.

9. If you were to be stuck on a desert island with one member of Alpha Flight, Who would it be (powers can not get you off the island) Now? Aurora likely.

10. Who was/is/could be the best leader of Alpha Flight? Puck.

11. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight writer? Furman.

12. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight writer? Not sure at all.

13. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight artist? Not sure.

14. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight artist? Same, not sure.

15. If you could undo one thing in Alpha Flight history, what would it be? All the pointless deaths and jokes about AF.

[Tawmis]

1. How long have you been collecting Alpha Flight? Not a collector really, just a fan

Okay, this I have to hear? You're a fan but don't actually collect the issue?

2. What was your first memory of Alpha Flight? If recent, what was your first reaction? Canadian team with varied members

When did you hear about Alpha Flight?

3. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight character? Box (Jeffries) and Feedback, then Puck.

Amazing! That's almost the opposite of the previous person who answered! (Except for Puck; who they mentioned as their favorite, but said that Box and Feedback were their least liked!)

I liked Flashback too!

4. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight character? Right now, Marinna, never liked the character much.

She was pretty plain.

5. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight villain? Still Dreamqueen or Master.

Excellent choices.

6. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight villain? Not sure really.

Just say Llan the Sorcerer!

8. What do you consider the Alpha Flight "Dream Team"? Now? Puck, Guardian, Box, Feedback, Ghost Girl, Nemesis, Killjoy, Talisman.

Some interesting choices!

9. If you were to be stuck on a desert island with one member of Alpha Flight, Who would it be (powers can not get you off the island) Now? Aurora likely.

She is easy on the eyes, and best chance of breeding survival!

10. Who was/is/could be the best leader of Alpha Flight? Puck.

Agreed.

11. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight writer? Furman.

Interesting!

15. If you could undo one thing in Alpha Flight history, what would it be? All the pointless deaths and jokes about AF.

A-FREAKING-MEN!

[Le Messor]

7. What do you think is the best issue / story-arc from Alpha Flight? The FF crossover.

FF Cross Over?

I figure that means volume 1 #3-4.

Also, with all this talk of Wendigo - interesting that they never faced one of their own biggest villains in their own book! (At least, not v1.)

~ Le Messor
"The CIA really bugs me."

[Mekko Hotvle]

FF team up with AF #93-94

[Le Messor]

That'd be during Nicieza's run. Was that when they faced Doom?
(I honestly don't remember it.)

[Mekko Hotvle]

Against Headlok. This was one of the first AF issues I read.

[Le Messor]

I remember the Headlok issue, but I didn't remember the FF were in it.

[Mekko Hotvle]

If I remember right, I think it was only half of FF at one point and during the story, it became FF vs AF for a short time.

[Phil]

I distinctly remember #91 as it had the great Doom cover.
I think #94 has Thing v Sas, off the top of my head.

[Human Fly]

1. Since Vol. 1
2. Guardian liquefying a car in a back issue of X-Men. Snowbird turning into a white wolverine to take on a Wendigo
3. Puck
4. Toss up between Manikin or Goblin
5. Love the Masters origin story
6. Caliber…always just seemed like a punching bag.
7. Loved it when they when they introduced Talisman and went back in time to defeat Ranaq

8. Core Team: Puck, The Original Box, Guardian, Sasquatch, Snowbird, Talisman, Aurora,
Back up / in training: Ghost Girl, Diamond Lil, WildChild, Zuzha Yu and Centennial just to make it interesting
9. Talisman
10. Wolverine or Puck
11. Bryne
12. Not sure... who turned the twins into elves?
13. Bryne
14. John Calimee...but who knows maybe with a different inker?
15. Keep Puck a regular dude who’s just a super bad ass....that and the whole twins into elves thing.

[Le Messor]

Hello Human Fly, and welcome!

I'm liking your tastes right now.

For the record, Bill Mantlo turned the twins into elves.

Oh, and John Calimee has improved a lot since his AF days.

~ Le Messor
"Delicate humour is the crowning virtue of the saints."
~ Evelyn Underhill

[rplass]

7. Loved it when they when they introduced Talisman and went back in time to defeat Ranaq

Me too! That is probably my favorite favorite issue. So glad we agree. Welcome to the boards!

[Human Fly]

Im being unfair to Calimee. I was such a Bryne fan that basically everyone after him I hated. My taste in artist has difficulty matured since back in the day.

[Human Fly]

Thanks, Ranaq is a kick ass character they should have used him more. Who knew scrambled eggs could be so scary!

[Le Messor]

Im being unfair to Calimee.

Oh, I wouldn't say that. While I agree that post-Byrne AF never reached the heights it had under its creator, Calimee was probably my least-favourite artist on the book.

As I said, he's gotten better - but that doesn't affect his AF run.