i bet that has something to do with being asked to join omega, and snowbirds feelings towards pointer.
at least i hope.
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i bet that has something to do with being asked to join omega, and snowbirds feelings towards pointer.
at least i hope.
Yeah that's what I think as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by varo
Does her mother have genes? As far as her appearance, she totally could have chosen to look like a First Nations woman, she is a shape-shifter after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
As for "Ultimate" Alpha Flight (more like Ralpha Flight)....They look absolutely awful (IMHO). Most of their costumes are really horrible. Snowbird's snow bunny outfit looks ridiculous, Vindicator looks like a moron. Aurora's costume would flip down over her breasts instantly at high speed flight (bad, bad designs) and Sasquatch looks equally stupid (with his multiple piercings and pigtails). Jubilee and Sunfire...WTF?!
...And I thought Volume 3 and killing off Alpha Flight was bad...
Dana :roll:
I'm sure she has a form of DNA, even Thor and Odin do but no way am I'm going to try to explain how God/Goddess can have kids. :?Quote:
Originally Posted by cmdrkoenig67
Well even as a baby she was always the blonde
Oh, I'm not too worried yet about UAF. We may get explanations and the characters may be written well.
They might be written very well, but I agree with cmdrkoenig67 with UAF looks silly. All though I do like Snowbird's new look :wink:
That's what I'm saying (the Gods of the North are mostly in spirit form, anyway)...Maybe when Shaman bound her to Canada and a human form and the only human genes she had were her father's, so she instinctively took a form (as a baby) that used those genes. Not to mention, look at the form her mother took, when she wanted Eastman to mate with her (a blonde, white woman), not that the form she took may have mattered in genetics.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
The Gods of the North aren't human (they only take humanoid form), they are extra-dimensional alien beings...Maybe they only look Native American/Inuit, because that's how the first people that they encountered looked.
As far as the way Alpha is written?
http://comics.ign.com/articles/874/874171p1.html
Looks pretty bad to me...Already we have a team who has attacked one of the X-Men (Iceman) and yet Vindicator says "We don't have a fight with you" (paraphrased)...Again, Alpha is written as heavy-handed bullies (just as they were in their original X-Men appearances)...Nothing new.
Dana
I still can't get Aurora's tube top out of my head.
Beyond the whole, "how does it stay on?" thing, wouldn't the opening in the front catch the air as she flew? If she were going real fast, it would :shock: and :lol: , wouldn't it?
It seems a poor choice of costume for a fast flyer, especially for a woman shaped like JM.
Love,
rplass
Have you tried Vaseline? :oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
Why's Shaman in leather? (It looks cool, just not in character.)
I keep 'reading' Vindy's maple leaf 'backwards' as a white M, not a red leaf. Even when I know what it is.
Maybe they're landing lights?
Sas reminds me of something... Fantasy troll? I don't know.
I've never been a fan of the Ultimate Universe (UU), and this isn't converting me.
- Le Messor
"Fidelity: A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed."
The Hercules series is showing them to have more a humanoid form rather then mostly being spirit, but it's kinda hard and silly to actually debate about genetics with a God having a child. Which mind you I wasn't debating the first place, I was talking more of a story point as being a Native American Goddess would make sense if she looked similar to her kin, but it's not a huge dealQuote:
Originally Posted by cmdrkoenig67
i kinda of like shaman's look, to be honest....(and it's the only one), besides, for what is concerning Sasquatch, it reminds me of a ix of a troll, a very evil and wild sasquatch and, i don't know why, but in the moemnt isa w this, it came in my mind bachalo's design for Sabretooth...Quote:
Originally Posted by Le Messor
Just to backtrack a little, I saw the panels,( with words), from Incredible Herciles #117. It just blew me away! :D Glad to see Birdie getting the credit from the Arctic gods for her conquering the Great Beasts. Can't wait to see the rest of the issue! :D Thanks, Mokole!
U.Shaman looks like Turok
Gosh, you're welcome! Nice to see van Lente calling out Snowbird as a big hitter.Quote:
Originally Posted by birdygirl
SPOILERS
Well this isn't our Alpha Flight that's for sure:
-AF easily defeats the X-Men
-Snowbird has ice/weather powers
-Sasquatch has a history with Rogue as she touched him before, but she doesn't know who it is
-Shaman is a mutant and easily defeats Cyclops and Havok
-Aurora can move faster then light and can steal speed away from people
-Well it definetly was a "different" take, guess we have to wait and see where this goes
END SPOILERS
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Originally Posted by King Mungi
Me like. It breaks the mold of thikning about AF that most people have so I like the variations.
Oh and their also junkies.... :roll:
What?!Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
The reason they are so strong is they take this steriod called "Banshee" the same steroid Colossus uses. Yeah I know...awesome :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by cmdrkoenig67
Sasquatch?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...x-Grendler.JPG
[Grendler from Earth 2]
Oh good lloyd! So much for a positive depiction of the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
Dana :roll:
Well, frankly, Dana, I gave up on ANY "positive" description on ANYTHING in the Ultimate books... They are Marvel's way to take a GOOD idea and bastardize the snot out of them to whatever degree they can. I honestly haven't picked up or even looked at any Ultimate comic since Ultimate X-Men #15-ishQuote:
Originally Posted by cmdrkoenig67
True...True.
Dana :P
Sasquatch?
http://www.mrmforce.com/images/wampa.jpg
Yeah, it was definitely a case of "interesting, but not good".
Although I've always wondered about the whole "property of the Canadian government". That just creeps me out. Can't they just say "You're AWOL" and leave it at that?
edit: and it also appears that the Vindicator is not the Vindicator/Guardian/Weapon Alpha Wolverine is familiar with as he doesn't know who Wolverine is, and the Sasquatch is probably another character with a new Banshee inspired set of powers, as he has encountered Rogue before.
So they're all new characters with Banshee inspired powers.
JJ Mohareb
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Originally Posted by rplass
I thought those looked familiar...
But I've just had a realisey!
Sasquatch was in Earth 2!
Clancy Brown, who played Sas in the Hulk cartoon (is that ep on Youtube? I've still never seen it) was in Earth 2.
- Le Messor
"Finagle’s First Law: If an experiment works, something has gone wrong."
Yeah, we did this in 2006:
http://forum.alphaflight.net/viewtopic.php?t=1177
I called it first! By two years! I win! Earth 2 is still awesome by the way.
Love,
rplass
Am I the only one who enjoyed the idea of Alpha Flight being bad guys? Or at least misunderstood, misguided, heroes being led by a corrupt government? I quite enjoyed the idea. I think there is tremendous room for growth, and even a bit of them turning to the side of good.
As for Sasquatch, I doubt that it's Walter, I don't recall anyone calling him by name. Anything can be different in this Ultimate universe. They even remark that Banshee can give normal humans powers. Vindicator might be getting his powers from the drug, the red pylon looking things on his suit might be giving him the powers via constant injection. Snowbird looks like she is Elizabeth Twoyoungmen instead of Narya. Shaman might even be someone else, though I am not sure who else he might be.
I like it, I plan to keep buying this title as long as UAF is part of the plot.
i don't know, i kinda of think she is narya, with just a different look; at first, i had the idea of Elizabeth (well, soemone in a comic with my same name... is this the reason i like her so much?) me too, but reading the conversation between she and ororo, it seems to me she really beleives she is, at least in part, a deity...Quote:
Originally Posted by Manikin
"you call yourself a goddess, but you're nothing but a cow"
you forgot the drugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Mungi
I mentioned it a few posts later
I didn't get the whole, "Snowbird is a combat pilot" thing. I really think that it ought to have been Vindicator flying the plane, or a Dept. H. operative. It just seemed odd to have Snowbird be a pilot, since she can fly on her own. Dunno, I've just seen her for a few panels, but she didn't seem like the pilot type to me.
Otherwise I really liked the issue, especially the beautiful art on the pages right before the attack during the ball game. That one panel with Vindicator blasting Wolverine to Maine is totally awesome.
Love,
rplass
Wolverine is in Maine now? Cool.
:P
Nah, he made it back to Westchester by hitching rides and stuff. It's pretty far [as considered by citizens of the NE US] from Maine to Westchester, about 5 hours driving, not including any time waiting around. Later in the book he makes it back to the school.
Love,
rplass
Over at marvel.com they have some more tidbits 'bout Ultimate AF and some preview art to boot too!
http://marvel.com/news/comicstories...._Introductions
Does anyone else wonder if the Ultimate Guardian is Feedback, the mutant from the East Coast who showed up at the end of the first AF series?