I'm as in front of the curtain as you guys.
I have no clue what's going on I'm afraid.
Anything I know comes through news sites/social networking etc....
It sounded like you were more plugged in to what was happening behind the scenes and the way decisions are made concerning what gets published and how.
I get your passion and feel the same, I really do, but we haven't suffered.
You speak for everyone? AF has more crap than good comics. Please tell me if this is incorrect.
It's also shown it can publish a bad one.
The oneshot hasn't erased Vol.3 #12 and magically fixed the opinion of everyone in the world.
Phil, I never said that the one-shot erased all the dreck from the past, nor did I believe that it magically fixed everyone's opinion. CW:AF is worthy of praise because it is ALPHA FLIGHT. It isn't a bunch of mind-wiped characters thrown together and called 'Alpha Flight'. It isn't Force Works pretending to be Alpha Flight. It (finally) is the real deal.
Let's not forget that it wasn't AF's story.
It wasn't a war to specifically bring them back.
Their return was a nice byproduct that they really didn't have to do.
It was Herc's story and they told it.
I have no real comment to make on that. As a Hercules story, I am satisfied.
Has it? Let's not forget that as much as I loved the oneshot it only sold 17,164
.
The one-shot was released in the fourth week of the month, right behind a major holiday. That 17,000 people took the time to travel to their local comics shop, picked out CWAF from all the choices they had, paid their hard-earned money for it...well, that may not mean crap to anybody else, but it means something to me.
Ultimately it comes down to readers voting with their wallets. Again and again.
Buying a lot of 'Omega Flight' didn't seem to be the way to keep that series going.
Marvel is a business, let's not forget that. They can't just print money to please a very small, yet loveable
, minority of the readership.