Originally Posted by
cmdrkoenig67
I have no problem with new members...What I do have a problem with is new members that are tacked on ...As much as I liked the characters...Persuasion, Manikin and Goblyn did not fit into Alpha Flight. They belonged on some X-Team.
I certainly don't want the entire original team back as Alpha Flight either...Mac's been killed off more than Jean Grey/Phoenix and I really don't want him back (not to mention, he's been handled quite badly every time he comes back), Puck's origin, his very being has been screwed up majorly and Marrina's fate has been dealt with quite brutally.
I'm being honest here and this will be old news...I LOVE Puck, but he's a flipping mess continuity-wise. As much as I love Bill Mantlo's writing on other series (The Micronauts, Rom, etc...), he destroyed the character. He totally went against what was already established by John Byrne for the character. Puck was and was always supposed to be an actual little person with near-crippling pain because of his condition....NOT because of a stupid demon sorcerer. What made him exception is not demon-possession or super powers, but that he was in pain, short and fought every day to be the best he could be...Mr Mantlo came along and screwed that all up.
I'd really rather Heather be revealed to have survived, as opposed to Puck...She could be the behind-the-scenes leader as she was meant to be, raising her daughter.
I totally disagree with Mokole on Sasquatch...Walter is not a sit on the sidelines guy...He's a former football player and turns into a giant, hulk-level strength super-being...Why relegate him to sitting in a lab somewhere?
I'm also not against a new person wearing the Guardian suit (and called Guardian, not Vindicator), just as long as Michael Pointer is never let near the suit again.
I also believe Northstar, Aurora and Madison would be a heck of a lot safer away from the "mutant massacre waiting-to-happen", that is the X-Men's Utopia. Canada doesn't lock it's mutants up, does it? No, they're just asked to join their superteams and be equal members-in-standing. Having all the mutants in one place is like painting a giant target on the area so it's visible even from orbit...It's a dumb, dumb idea.
I'd love for some older members to reappear, but not necessarily as full-time team members...Snowbird has a "divine" mission and could be a reserve member, Talisman is also on a different path and could be a reservist as well.
As for a whole new line-up...No...It's never going to work.
I don't read Alpha Flight for the name, but for the characters. If not for Heather and Puck, I would have dropped Volume 2 in an instant...Without Walter, there's no way I would have kept reading the steaming pile that was Volume 3...And if Sasquatch and Talisman were absent from Omega Flight...I would never have picked the book up.
Dana