I had thought this topic to be dead and buried (no pun intended). A few weeks ago I had read something in regards to this and for the life of me I cant remember where. It said in the text it was indeed the temporal copies that had died and that the originals where still on their Plodex mission. Earlier today on a whim I checked out the Wikipedia Alpha Flight page and saw this quote...
"Though writer Brian Michael Bendis heavily implied the deaths of the above-mentioned roster of Alpha Flight at the hands of the Collective, later writers backpedaled from this sweeping declaration. Sasquatch resurfaced alive and well, with only Shaman and Guardian officially being acknowledged as being dead. Further complicating things is the status of the temporal doppelgangers from the above-mentioned third Alpha Flight series, were amongst the roster that fought the Collective."
I certianly wish I could remeber where I saw the other online comment as it said something to the same effect.
I have been a bit quite on the boards lately as I have been rather disgusted with Marvel only mentioning Alpha as a joke insert in their polls and little other news in the way of an ongoing.
Is this an attempt on Marvel's part to at the least create an opening? I dont want to get my hopes up. How long have we been promised an announcement with nothing to show for it? I hate to get my hopes up again that something is possibly on the horizon. Have any of you all seen anything about the "temporal" topic?