In Alpha Flight #46, Jeffries mentions to Kara that he and Bochsie go way back, but I think he was just exaggerating because clearly the first time they met was in AF #16. Continuity explanations have to work around that fixed point.
This first issue came out today and yes, there is an update for Alpha Flight, with illustrations, several taken from the new series, which is darn awesome. It's all up to date - up to the very end of issue #4 of the new series which just came out! Can't get any more up to date than this, folks. In the update, there is a new team illustration, the cover for Alpha Flight #6, which is billed as 'current roster' - note that image does not include Heather.
There is a new grid of head shots for each of the members, no new artwork in there, but it's very well done with better images and a more uniform presentation.
EDIT: Nemesis now has two head shots: Nemesis (Jane) and Nemesis (Weatherly). Gee, I thought it was the same Nemesis. Sigh.
Also, the adventures Heather had in Alpha Flight Annual #2 with Alpha Prime is mentioned in the Alpha Flight update along with a picture of the Alpha Prime team.
Aurora has a single paragraph update (no illustration) accounting for her time with Team Northstar Extreme Snowsports (inaccurately calling her "joint CEO"), up to and including her membership in the v4 version of Alpha Flight, and of course she is on the cover (it's the same image as the one used on the dust jacket for Hardcover #1)
Of course Alpha Flight's entry and Aurora's entry are reproduced in their entirety from issue #1 as well and Marrina appears again in the Avengers entry as she did in issue #1 of the Hardcover series.
Bottom line: if you didn't get the HC get this! Even if you did, get this anyway for the new info!
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Last edited by rplass; 09-28-2011 at 10:32 PM.
Great recap, thanks!
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Yes, we got confirmation from Scott Lobdell that Amelia Weatherly was not the same Nemesis we'd seen before, and that Nemesis is a role that passes from one host to the next - so there's three we know of, the one who fought Deadly Ernest and the two who joined Alpha Flight at different points in the group's history. The main entry, though largely reprinting the HC entry, has a few tweaks to reflect that correction.
Thanks for the explanation, Loki. I figured that was how it happened. I can deal with multiple Nemesii - but I was so used to the idea that there was only one.
EDIT: Does Isabel have a last name or is it just Isabel?
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Last edited by cmdrkoenig67; 09-30-2011 at 03:01 PM.
ALPHA FLIGHT IS RESURRECTED, LONG LIVE ALPHA FLIGHT!
I'd heard at the time they didn't know her name, and were calling her Jane as in 'Jane Doe'. Which helped with the whole 'they're all one woman' theory.
Wait... Thorne... as in Alec Thorne?
Wild mass guessing: begin!
- Le Messor
"If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?"
Certainly there is nothing in any textual source to link Alexander Thorne (Smart Alec) with Jane Thorne (Nemesis). I think it's just co-incident.
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Given what we've been given since the demise of of vol 1 (Omega Flight excluded), I doubt any writer of AF since then would be that subtle.
Del
Driftwood: Well, I got about a foot and a half. Now, it says, uh, "The party of the second part shall be known in this contract as the party of the second part."
Fiorello: Well, I don't know about that...
Driftwood: Now what's the matter?
Fiorello: I no like-a the second party, either.
Driftwood: Well, you should've come to the first party. We didn't get home 'til around four in the morning... I was blind for three days!
Isabel's surname, on the other hand, isn't coincidental. But then, I think everyone knew that already.
So a logical question is, what happened to Nemesis II to cause Nemesis III to exist? Is she is no longer in the land of the living?
Stop the Goblyn hate!
Actually, I am more interested in whether ANY of the Nemesis's (Nemeses? Nemeseses?)are considered to be in the land of the living. I've always viewed the character as some sort of avatar of death itself, herself caught between living and dead and therefore able to impart that same state to others (or usher them into death, if necessary). Like maybe her sword sucks the life from her, and when she is no longer usable to it, it discards her and finds another (now i am lost in memories of Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone!)? Just my thoughts.So a logical question is, what happened to Nemesis II to cause Nemesis III to exist? Is she is no longer in the land of the living?
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