@ Garry: Mesmero ain't easy to beat...
Alpha Flight is tough enough when handled with care.
I don't believe I'm getting ready to compare a Mantlo era story favorable to volume 2, but...
Mantlo's Alpha Flight beat Mesmero while fighting Sentinels. This by no means means I think AF# 43 is a good or plausible story. On the other hand, volume 2's Murmur couldn't even mount a bit of resistance against Mesmero and she's supposedly a mind-manipulator, too! (Ah, if she can't put up a good defense against another mind-manipulator, and she gets broken up in more physical altercations, what good is she?) And the character who could resist Mesmero was...MAN-BOT?
MAN-BOT?
And people wonder why this version got cancelled.