The Return of Alpha Flight!

[maniac mike]

He's not the only artist who wants to draw AF, Paul Pelletier also wants a shot at drawing the original team too!

[Mokole]

Even if it's just a new AF team showing up to do whatever in H & M, it's a start; if it's a flashback, boo hoo; if it's more than both combined.... Hard to say from the rumour that the AF reference is any more than a guest appearance, but there it is.

[mreeez]

To stir the pot a bit, from Jim McCann's Twitter on Tuesday.

Secret project interviews and outline being written. You'll NEVER see this one coming!

[Mokole]

Oh, the secret stuff may have nothing to do with AF, but of course who knows what's going on with AF now.

[Flightpath07]

huh. we'll have to wait and see, i guess. any timetable on this 'appearance' ?

[Mokole]

I'd bet no, maybe we'll here a 2011 date for he appearance by November. Pure guess.

[varo]

well, if its a on-going, it will be announced soon, as both phil jimenez and jim mccann have both stated they have a project they are working on together that will be announced very soon (fan expo is the 27th/28th in toronto...........hmmm......) but if its just a appearance then it wont be until next year as hawkeye/mockingbird series has a arc with black widow coming up.

[Phil]

well, if its a on-going, it will be announced soon, as both phil jimenez and jim mccann have both stated they have a project they are working on together that will be announced very soon (fan expo is the 27th/28th in toronto...........hmmm......) but if its just a appearance then it wont be until next year as hawkeye/mockingbird series has a arc with black widow coming up.

I don't think Jiminez will be working on AF if it is written by McCann as the text from that panel read that he was working with a big name writer; my guess would be Grant Morrison on something over at DC.

I'd imagine if it is McCann then it'll be in H&M or it'll be in some kind of anthology series (ala Nation X, Age of Heroes) or maybe (less likely) a oneshot.
I sincerely doubt they'll launch an ongoing from no-where.

[Mokole]

Even if it's a one shot, it's hope. Better than a flashback or an alternate universe. If it's a new team then at least someone at Marvel wants the team in existence. As long as the team exists, there's hope. New Warriors fans (Who I don't get, aren't Young Allies, Young Avengers, etc. all just New Warriors under new management??) would get a new team that way.

Having Alpha Flight once again in operation in the Marvel Universe gives us something to push for, for that ongoing! Hooray, I hope!

[-K-M-]

I sincerely doubt they'll launch an ongoing from no-where.

Same.

[Flightpath07]

Jim McCann has a website, http://www.jimmccannonline.com/ .

[varo]

yeah, i saw that, he also has a section in jinxworld forums, a twitter (@jimmccann) and a facebook page. and yes i am following him on all of them. interesting solicit for h/m #6 is that mockingbird goes back to the savage land to seek out some info on her skrull capture, possibly originals popping up there (the originals being captured by skrulls would be a god send)

[Flightpath07]

"the originals being captured by skrulls would be a god send"

Agreed! But...would Marvel ever allow this to slip through? If Marvel really doesn't want the originals back...

Don't want to be negative...but it is hard to get ones hopes up, too.

[MistressMerr]

"the originals being captured by skrulls would be a god send"

Agreed! But...would Marvel ever allow this to slip through? If Marvel really doesn't want the originals back...

Don't want to be negative...but it is hard to get ones hopes up, too.

Marvel doesn't care one way or another if the originals come back, as long as it serves the story being told.

[Mokole]

I doubt they'd use the Skrull angle, but pf course all we're doing is speculating a lot, and trying our best to be positive. If it is just a one-off in H&M, then it would be good to see the team in full operating with them, in Savage Land or somewhere else. Maybe running into AF, maybe seeing the old team return from space, maybe needing saving by AF.