Alpha Flight weekly Reading Club on the Byrne Forum

[birdygirl]

I hear you, Flightpath. I'm always saddened whenever I read John Byrne's comments regarding Alpha Flight. I've always thought that Alpha Flight is the best work he's ever done, (besides his Uncanny X-Men and Fantastic Four runs). The 80's were a golden time for John Byrne.

Since then, I've tried to get into other comics that he's worked on, and have been unable to do so. And I honestly tried to like these books, and gave them a real chance, but...nothing.

Maybe, it's just AF prejudice, but I really think his work has gone downhill since then. It seems to have lost its spark and originality.

Alpha Flight was and is gold, and it's a shame that John Byrne doesn't see it that way.

[beddy]

I hear you...I'm always disappointed when John voices his feelings about Alpha Flight. He always belittles his work on the book, but it was some of his best. He tosses them away as one-shot characters that should only have been used as adversaries and not as a real team of heroes (let alone, getting their own book). What he doesn't seem to get is that they've become comic legends and granted they're not anywhere as big as Wolverine, but he started exactly the same way...An adversary created to survive a fight with the Hulk. What I don't really get is that JoeQ doesn't see them as the comic greatness they once were...He apparently only sees them as cannon-fodder.

It is sad really that JoeQ is able to decide if he doesnt like a character or in htis case a team that he can just have a writer get rid of them instead of getting a quality team to write and draw it.

[Dfense75]

Welcome to the forums beddy I agree with your stance on JoeQ. Good buisness men dont let their natural predjudice guide their actions. If JoeQ was a good buisness man. He would have recognized the success of the Omega Flight mini(that was supposed to be ongoing but I digress) and gave the fans a good Alpha based book when the idea was fresh in their heads. Im still holding out hope for some good news after the MCP story is over. But Im not holding my breath.

[cmdrkoenig67]

Im still holding out hope for some good news after the MCP story is over. But Im not holding my breath.

Probaby a good idea not to.

Dana

[Flightpath07]

Im still holding out hope for some good news after the MCP story is over. But Im not holding my breath.

Probaby a good idea not to.

Dana

Well, I am holding my breath! And, in the spirit of things, I changed my Avatar to show that!
What do you think, is it too much?

[cmdrkoenig67]

LOL....Feeling blue?

Dana

[Ryan Maxwell]

Big Mac attack in issue 17.

http://www.byrnerobotics.com/forum/f....asp?TID=23200

[PWalk]

Walter's thoughts on Aurora being a mutant made him a little
less likable. Maybe I am reading him wrong, but he sounds like he's
ashamed for her and would rather conceal her nature.

Correct! I wanted to show how deeply ingrained that prejudice was/is.
Walter was like one of those well-meaning souls who wants to "cure"
homosexuals.[/url]

That is an interesting insight into the character of Walter and one that up until now I would not have guessed. I am really enjoying those threads over there.

[mreeez]

This is the issue that started me as an AF fan and Guardian fan.

I remember picking this up mainly because it had Wolverine and being lik 'HOLY Spit, that dude just wrecked Wolverine!"

[Le Messor]

Hee hee hee... While I was reading the Byrne #17 thread, Canadian Idiot started playing on my iPod!

- Le Messor
"What kind of freaks are that polite?"
- the above song

[Flightpath07]

Hee hee hee... While I was reading the Byrne #17 thread, Canadian Idiot started playing on my iPod!

- Le Messor
"What kind of freaks are that polite?"
- the above song

???
Should i be offended now?
No? How about now?

[Le Messor]

Should i be offended now?

Not yet...
First, you should know that it's 'Weird Al' Yankovic's parody of Green Day's American Idiot.

How about now?

Okay, now.

- Le Messor
"Are we there yet?"
"You tell me. You're driving."

[Flightpath07]

First, you should know that it's 'Weird Al' Yankovic's parody of Green Day's American Idiot.

Maybe it would help if I knew that song, but I do not.

I am quite a Weird Al fan, though, so I'll give ya a free pass on this one.

[Le Messor]

Then here.

[Flightpath07]

Then here.

Ah. Got it now.

Not the album, mind you. It is getting harder to buy all the music you want to anymore, so I mainly stick just to the stuff I really love. Or I pirate it, of course. Pirating is the new buying, right?

Nice lyrics. Insightful. And mainly correct.

I always figured Weird Al was Canadian for some reason. Was very sad when I found out he was not. He seems Canadian, though, eh? That aboot right?