new maxi series................alpha flight!!!!

[Phil]

Phil, Phil, Phil...your sense of humour...wow, you shock me...

As long as I only shock you off panel.

[Phil]

Because I'm being deadly serious.

[Le Messor]

That only makes me laugh harder.

[Phil]

With A Vengence?

And that'll be my last Off Topic comment, I promise.

[Le Messor]

You have shamed me into talking about the maxi-series...

Um...
Uh...
Look! There's a three-headed monkey behind you!

[Phil]

So people... do we reckon that this'll be 'Alpha Flight (Volume 4)' or 'Fear Itself: Alpha Flight' ?

[Ben]

So people... do we reckon that this'll be 'Alpha Flight (Volume 4)' or 'Fear Itself: Alpha Flight' ?

Vol 4, since only the first few issues will bear Fear Itself on the title.

[Phil]

Well, Fear Itself #2 is June and that's a 7 issue series, so providing that ships on a monthly basis #1-6 could well be prefaced?

[cmdrkoenig67]

Maybe Alpha is going to pop up with a one-shot, mini or maxi each event?

Dana

[Flightpath07]

Seeing as how much popularity Pak and Van Lente have had on other series...this'll be Volume 4, an ongoing series. Spinning out of Chaos War, pushed forward by Fear Itself, then standing on its own due to blossoming popluarity.

[Le Messor]

Maybe Alpha is going to pop up with a one-shot, mini or maxi each event?

That would be kind of cool if they keep of the trend of it actually being Alpha, but I think I'd like it better if they weren't tied down to the event of the month.

But, hey, an Alpha Flight comic is an Alpha Flight comic...
... 'cept all those Alpha Flight comics that aren't Alpha Flight comics...

- Le Messor
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

[bigbloo]

Maybe Alpha is going to pop up with a one-shot, mini or maxi each event?

Dana

I think I would actually prefer it this way. Less pressure for the creative team to make up stories if they run out of something interesting to say, less chances of getting sucky filler stories.

[Le Messor]

less chances of getting sucky filler stories.

True, true - but also less chance of getting cool filler stories. You have to take risks to get gains. I think others say that better than I do.
Also, under an 'events-only' model, the team could never have their own stories; Alpha Flight would always be literally fighting somebody else's battles.

- Le Messor
"I have room for one more friend and he is everyman."
~ Woody Guthrie

[Flightpath07]

Because I'm being deadly serious.

I always pictured you as more Deadly Ernest.

[MistressMerr]

True, true - but also less chance of getting cool filler stories. You have to take risks to get gains. I think others say that better than I do.
Also, under an 'events-only' model, the team could never have their own stories; Alpha Flight would always be literally fighting somebody else's battles.

At least until the Master tries to conquer the Marvel universe in a 12-issue bi-monthly series with 14 tie-in books.