The Return of Alpha Flight!

[Mokole]

Which I too hope was his point, that Jimenez is the artist for AF!

[varo]

This in no way shape or form was a denial of alpha flight returning. He's not lying, the alpha flight that died in na 16 are indeed dead. I believe the originals coming back ate either from outer space, or Jim McCann will find a hole from Byrnes run (possibly a skrull angle? possibly from issue 10? Just reaching) so he's just pulling the 'ol obi wan trick on us. Fred van lente just announced his avengers tie in (dead avengers) so it's not an avengers tie-in. The last line in that interview pretty much gives it away. I feel if and when they do announce a new title it will be at fan expo, not in a interview online.

Btw, Jimenez just tweeted he is currently drawing a character he dreamed of drawing since he was a kid. Hmmmmm......

[Flightpath07]

Varo,

I appreciate your optimism and hope you are correct.

However, you are talking about bringing back, in some way, shape, or form, the original AF team.

Which, of course, brings me back to this disgusting quote...

"Alpha Flight is a tough nut to crack, and in all honesty we haven't quite cracked it yet," writes Brevoort. "So at the moment, there isn't any active Alpha Flight series in development. The problem with Alpha Flight is that the two things that really drove interest in them in their earliest years were the fact that they were these exciting, mysterious new characters who mixed it up with the X-Men (and in some ways resembled them as regards the tenor of their team), and the fact that their series was being written and drawn by John Byrne at the height of his powers and popularity. But when you drill down, the core concept of the series is based on geography, which is very limiting -- they're like the Avengers , but in Canada."

If Brevoort feels that AF is a tough nut to crack, based mainly on their geography, and that they only did well because John Byrne was at the top of his game and becuz they were a foil for the X-Men...then how can we honestly expect Marvel to put out an AF based around these heroes that Brevoort thinks can't make it on their own?

I'm still in a "wait and see" holding pattern on this one.

[mreeez]

This in no way shape or form was a denial of alpha flight returning. He's not lying, the alpha flight that died in na 16 are indeed dead. I believe the originals coming back ate either from outer space, or Jim McCann will find a hole from Byrnes run (possibly a skrull angle? possibly from issue 10? Just reaching) so he's just pulling the 'ol obi wan trick on us. Fred van lente just announced his avengers tie in (dead avengers) so it's not an avengers tie-in. The last line in that interview pretty much gives it away. I feel if and when they do announce a new title it will be at fan expo, not in a interview online.

Btw, Jimenez just tweeted he is currently drawing a character he dreamed of drawing since he was a kid. Hmmmmm......

I've been thinking about the Skrull angle too especially since McCann is currently writing Mockingbird who did come back via the Secret Invasion/Skrull deal.

[Mokole]

As we all know, not only do dead characters don't have to be dead (heck, Absorbing Man was killed and pounded into gravel by the Hulk and ain't dead anymore, then theres' Colossus, Psylocke, and Jean Grey [who is still dead but I'm betting not much longer] who all died on-panel, plus Nightcrawler, so 'dead means not in comics right now').

Also, who says there is no Alpha Flight? Maybe "What about Canada's Mightiest Heroes" is the lead-in to the new iteration of the team, an action team. Our Alpha Flight, 2011. See what happens at Fan EXpo. Maybe my internet will be down on Friday/Saturday and Sunday I'll log on to see 500 posts about the return of Alpha Flight.

Good luck to those of you going to Fan EXpo and hope you get the correct answer to your Alpha Flight queries!

[varo]

i completely agree with you flightpath, the only thing is you can't hold a marvel editor to his word and feel they are obligated to give us their plans for their characters. plus, thats a older interview, and at the time of the interview i'm sure he believed that statement. i have read many other interviews from either other editors even joe q himself stating that if they had the right pitch they would launch a new alpha flight series. hopefully jim mccann has come up with that pitch.

even though theres been all these rumors, i am still pessimistic arvel will finally give us a real alpha flight series that we all have been looking for.

i am fully convinced that if there will be a announcement, it will be at fan expo, if theres no announcement, then there will not be a new series any time soon. btw, neither phil jimenez or jim mccann has denied that they are working on a alpha flight series. both have acknowledged that they are working on a new unannounced series.

[MistressMerr]

Yeah, I have my strong doubts that we'll be seeing a new title anytime soon, but there's nothing wrong with a little hope. After having so many of my favourite characters jerked around for the past few years, though, I'm sticking with the 'wait and see' approach so as not to get burned.

Also, I don't see why everyone's assuming they'll have to play the resurrection card in order to get a classic-flavour Alpha lineup up and running again. Sasquatch, Snowbird, Talisman and the twins are all still around, that's a solid roster right there. Pull in a few B-listers if the twins are locked up in X-purgatory, it's all good. Seems like using who's already available would be the simplest approach.

[-K-M-]

Perhaps we might see Marrina? Here is the Van Lente new Avengers book

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=27841

[Flightpath07]

"Also, I don't see why everyone's assuming they'll have to play the resurrection card in order to get a classic-flavour Alpha lineup up and running again. Sasquatch, Snowbird, Talisman and the twins are all still around, that's a solid roster right there. Pull in a few B-listers if the twins are locked up in X-purgatory, it's all good. Seems like using who's already available would be the simplest approach."

Heck, throw in Manikin, and Purple Girl or Persuasion (pick your poison), Yukon Jack, either re-power Windshear or put him in the Guardian suit (and call him True North), then we have got the VERY strong rumours that Puck is coming back from hell (and would be my vote to lead the Flight), there is always the "Wolverine robot and his little girl companion" idea that was thrown around months ago...and maybe Earthmover the unexplored but very powerful Alphan-man-of-mystery...geez, Mr. Jeffries, too...

Look, we got enough Alphans around that we could form our own island of 'em! lol.

[mos_def]

I wouldnt mind seeing Hume in the Guardian suit. Good idea

[mos_def]

Perhaps we might see Marrina? Here is the Van Lente new Avengers book

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=27841

FVL is actually one of my favorite writers cuz you can tell he has been reading comics for a long time cuz his continuity is so dead on in his stories

[Phil]

I'll make it a news item when I get in from work, but go check the Chaos war thread!

[rplass]

Perhaps we might see Marrina? Here is the Van Lente new Avengers book

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=27841

I'm thinking the same thing - she's not one of the Avengers mentioned, but it does say that many other dead Avengers will be in it - resurrected? Gonna be tough to do with the severed head thing and all, you know.

Love,
rplass

[Flightpath07]

Resurrected? Gonna be tough to do with the severed head thing and all, you know.

"What?! It's just a flesh-wound!"

[DIGGER]

I'm thinking the same thing - she's not one of the Avengers mentioned, but it does say that many other dead Avengers will be in it - resurrected? Gonna be tough to do with the severed head thing and all, you know.

Love,
rplass

She is a Plodex don't forget. Perhaps one of her powers is that an appendage can grow back (like some lizards can do) or be reattached. Anything is possible.

DIGGER