Placing the Second X-Men Alpha limited in Continuity?

[DelBubs]

Looking to our afficienados here. Where would you place this and could we reach a happy medium? As soon as I think I have it something else contradicts it.

[Phil]

I think we'd had a rough placement of between #6 & 7.

http://www.alphaflight.net/showthread.php?5491-AF-Appearance-Chronology&p=77661&viewfull=1#post77661

[DelBubs]

Where I was having difficulty was Cyclops left the X-Men after Jean Greys first death around UXM #138 ish. He's in this so it must be just before. Wolvie says in #140 that he has to resolve issues in Canada. It is just like a jigsaw, some how all the pieces don't fit to create a complete picture. On the strength of that I'm more than happy to have it taking place between #6&7 AF.

Cheers

[Phil]

hmm.

[rplass]

That's a tough one. It clearly takes place somewhere between AF #4 and #8 BUT.... Aurora is clearly NOT Jeanne-Marie, as she was for those issues. So that's a continuity error right there.

[Le Messor]

Where I was having difficulty was Cyclops left the X-Men after Jean Greys first death around UXM #138 ish. He's in this so it must be just before. Wolvie says in #140 that he has to resolve issues in Canada. It is just like a jigsaw, some how all the pieces don't fit to create a complete picture. On the strength of that I'm more than happy to have it taking place between #6&7 AF.

I admit that when I put my chronologies together, I've never even tried to allow for X-Men continuity. I've thought about it, but never tried it, especially since I don't know how it relates to Alpha. I figure stories printed in the same month aren't necessarily set at the same time.
While I have the X-Men from the time, I don't know them nearly as well.

Also, frankly, with any later-written issues (and even some contemporary ones), mistakes happen that mean there's no possible time. The first X-Men / Alpha Flight has a combination of Alphans that never quite happened (Talisman shouldn't have been in there with Sasquatch; she didn't really join until after his 'death').

X-Alpha 2 is the same one with Snowbird shapeshifting in the U.S., and Guardian doing his 'teleporting' trick inside a room. And he doesn't magically transform into a pancake on the wall.
I basically didn't take its attention to detail too seriously.

Man, this post comes across as defensive, though I'm not feeling that way.

- Le Messor
"Habit has made you the person you are."
~ W.G.P.

[DelBubs]

What threw me was having Cyclops moping at Jean Greys grave. I remember a scene from #138 of him doing something similar. He then left the X-Men for a while. Yet #140 takes place after and the battles with Tundra and the Master would take place after. It can be reconciled with Cyclops returning around #150 and going to the grave. The timeline of between 6 & 7 AF would then work. I was only checking cos of that 'Time in Alpha History' heading that appears in some reviews. :-)

[Le Messor]

I was only checking cos of that 'Time in Alpha History' heading that appears in some reviews.

:)
Fair enough, but I don't think I've reviewed X-Men / Alpha Flight v2. I think I'm the only one who does that.

- Le Messor
"I’d love to, but I have to be on the next train to Bermuda."