Don't let Ben fool you, either. Isn't he the one who brought us www.furnitureporn.com? :lol:
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Don't let Ben fool you, either. Isn't he the one who brought us www.furnitureporn.com? :lol:
Name: Callie Nicole Ray
Username: SailorCallie
Location: San Antonio, TX USA
Occupation: Unemployed, but currently looking. My last job was a dishwasher/busser at a pizza place called DoubleDave's
Interests:Comics (Alpha Flight, all X-titles including Wolverine, Teen Titans, Superman, etc.), Manga (Sailor Moon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic Knights Rayearth, Dragonball Z, etc.), TV (Saturday Night Live, Friends, Law and Order: SVU, The Nanny, Yu-Gi-Oh, & Power Rangers, both old-school and new-school)
Bio: Oldest of two daugthers who's both born in San Antonio, TX. I graduated from McNeil High School in Austin, TX in 1996. (GO MAVS!!!!)
Welcome aboard Callie! Don't mind the House Hippo living in the cupboard, he's friendly.
Ben
hi, just wanted to introduce myself so here goes
Name: David
Location:Arlington, Texas, USA
Occupation: Book seller
Interests: Anime/Manga, Comics, Movies, Various Music, Roleplaying
Bio: Born in Canada but moves to Texas in 1978. I've been here ever since but always liked my time in Toronto. Tho I didnt like the heaping amount of snow...that's about it for me.
Hey David/Redcoat! I almost missed seeing this post, as the server problems tagged all the messages as having been read. Welcome to Alpha Waves. We just build a new wing on the cupboard, and have a hanger with yer name on it.
Ben
NAME: Arcade :P
BIRTH DATE: August 5th
LOCATION: United Kingdom
OCCUPATION: Student
INTERESTS: Comics, Films, Music, Computers, Marvel (Especially X-Men).
Welcome Arcade! There is a shovel in the corner, you can use it to clear yourself a comfy spot in the pleasently crouded cupboard :)
Ben
Welcome welcome Arcade and other newbies!
*waves with a huge grin and goes back to knitting tiny sweaters for the house hippo*
WOOT!
NAME: Ed Northcott
BIRTH DATE: 1971
LOCATION: Kitchener, ON, Canada
OCCUPATION: Illustrator
INTERESTS: Comparative theology, history (with a focus on medieval studies), nutrition, weight-lifting, visual arts
BIO: It has been said by some that Ed is utterly without common manners or good graces. He claims this is because he was raised in the wild by a pack of wolves.
According to more reliable sources, his childhood was spent between Newfoundland and southern Ontario. Extremely patriotic, he has travelled through many provinces, but deeply regrets not yet having travelled beyond Calgary in his western journeys. He hopes to someday remedy this.
When not chained to his drawing desk and computer station, Ed can be found clanging iron in the basement, or outside howling at wolves and stuffing moose into igloos.
It has been suggested by some that Ed is an extremely silly individual who is rarely more than half-serious. In real life, he almost never refers to himself in the 3rd person.
Northcott,
welcome to the site. That intro had me chuckling.
LOL, great intro Ed! Nice to see you being more active on the forum :) We have lots of lurkers that should jump in and at least say "HI" If you like we can chain you to the cupboard instead of yer desk, and you can draw on the walls.
Ben
Blame Allan. He dropped a note to the Alpha list and reminded me that this place existed. :) Good to be back.
Hmmm, been a bit of that lately. How could you forget about this site?! Maybe I should send a mass email out to the entire membersip of the forum to remind the lurkers that it's still here, not to mention alive and well. Many forums are created, and very few are a success. I'm happy to consider this forum a success.Quote:
Originally Posted by Northcott
Ben
I'm Scarlettspiderg (Gary), I come from Manchester (England, UK) and have been collecting comics for about 10yrs (I'm 20).
I started reading Alpha Flight with V3 and I'm now trying to get all the V1/V2 issues.
Errr....thats about it - if you want any more info ask and I'll tell.
Welcome to Alpha Waves Gary! Feel free to find a comfy spot in the cupboard, don't mind the furniture in compromising positions :lol:
Me as Major Mapleleaf! Under the pictures section at:
http://scarlettspiderg.tripod.com/
What he said, but with Panache.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlettspiderg
And the guy on that Kidney Resouce ad could do one mean Centennial!Quote:
Originally Posted by Scarlettspiderg
NAME: Tom Johnson
BIRTH DATE: 10/14/70
LOCATION: Pittsburgh,PA
OCCUPATION: Slave to the "Man"
INTERESTS: Comics,Movies,Music,Computers
BIO: Grew up in Ohio, moved here 12 years ago, work in a factory with my girlfriend. Been collecting comics since about 1977.
I run an email RPG group, which is how i found this wonderful forum. we need players!!!
http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/Alpha_Flight/
if you like such things.
oh, i'm Fritz from las vegas!
Welcome Weapon X.5 and GuardianX! Nice to have you aboard. Don't let the slime creatures in the cupboard bother you, we still intend on making them pets.
GuardianX, send me a little description of your RPG group, I'll add a link to AlphaFlight.net when I have a free moment (hard to come by these days)
Ben
hi Ben! this is truely a wonderful site, and I was pretty horrified to find out AF was being cancelled, again!thanks for the warm welcome!
"Set in the time around Alpha Flight #1 (VOL. 1).
story so far
What started as a barfight between the hot headed Beta Flight member
Flashback and notorious supervillain Cain "Juggernaut" Marko escalated
to a battle that left a small town devastated, with minimal civilian
casualty. The battle was televised by a local news crew and a media
frenzy is the result. The Canadian Government has denied any
involvement with the super team and funding was immediately cut for
Dept. H.
Team leader James MacDonald Hudson is missing and presumed dead. His
wife, Heather Hudson, is searching Canadian forests for her husband.
She hopes his disapearance was due to attempting a time sync jump. She
will not rest until she has proof of his death or brings him back alive.
Rox/xon Oil, under the direction of Jerome "Jerry" Jax/xon, has made a
bold attempt to contact and hire members of Beta and Gamma through
Delphine Courtney. The company offered large sums of money to Alec
Thorne and Marrina. It is suspected now with the disbanding of Dept. H
program that Rox/xon with make more attempts to contract Alpha members
under their employ.
The various team members are now scattered across Canada, securing
their private lives from ties with Dept. H. What's next for Alpha
Flight?"
the group has been going since Jun of 2002. pretty much all characters are available as the group went through a slow period but i just refuse to let it die!
Thanks for your help and i'll be sure to link this site as well!
-Fritz
Name: Brandon Kruse
Username: Oneyoungman
Location: Grand Rapids, MI USA
Occupation: Unemployed, sorry to say. Been looking for a few months now. My last job was a night auditor at a hotel.
Interests:Comics (Alpha Flight, Legion and JSA). I enjoy reading, my favorite authors are Anton Checkov, Jean-Paul Sartre, Naguib Mahfouz and Sylvia Plath. I also enjoy learning launguages and am proficient, in varying degrees, in French, Spanish, German and Russian. I'd love to travel if I had the money.
Bio:Single white male. Currently 22. Lived my whole life in Michigan though I long to move just about anywhere else. Moved out pretty young (16) and made my fair share of mistakes.Attended Community College, but screwed around too much and droped out. Planning to go back to school and would like to become a librarian.
Username: Madison
DOB: 1972
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Occupation: Health care
Bio: Have lived in Nova Scotia and Toronto, mostly. Working on the world record for most years in post-secondary education.
Interests: Comics, movies, travel, food, wine
Looking forward to some good discussion about my favorite comic book, Alpha Flight! I have to say I'm not overly sad to see vol 3 go, but I do hope that means they'll eventually do a version that includes actual Alpha Flight members. A big Canadian "howzit goin', eh?" to all you fellow Alpha Fans.
Welcome to our friendly asylum. Please check your sanity at at the gate. The critters in the cupboards tend to enjoy fresh sanity, and you will notice the 'don't feed the inmates' sign in the doors. Also, watch your step. Someone (we're not sure who - although we have our suspicions) has been leaving Ikea catalogues laying around for the inmates to find... *sigh* It's messy, but it keeps them out of more serious trouble...
Now, if you'll follow me, we'll start our tour....
(You can thank Ben for the link :D)
NAME: Garry Jones
BIRTHDATE: December 23, 1959
LOCATION: Washington, D.C.
OCCUPATION: Before & After School Group Activity Leader
BIO: Author of "ALPHA FLIGHT: The Super-Team That Never Took Off" which was published in AMAZING HEROES# 117; old-school ALPHA FLIGHT fan; former underpaid government civil servant
Tho this should have come awhile ago from me, garry, welcome to the asylum.
Welcome to the board Garry/Al-Fan! Could you post your article from Amazing Heroes here for us to read? I for one would love to check it out.
Thanks for the welcome!
The article was written in '86 (published in '87) and would entail rewriting the whole thing, more work and time than I have to spare (especially since I'm trying to get my ALPHA FLIGHT story together).
I'm glad someone has an interest in what I've written, though.
Nom/Name: Laurent
Speudo/Username: Harfang (snowbird 's french name)
Residence/Location: sud de la France , europe (south France)
Metier/Occupation: etudiant en litterature , Student
Centre d'interret/Interests: les Comics : Alpha Flight (Division Alpha in French) ) X-Men ... H.P. Lovecraft ; E.A.Poe ; la littérature en général
Special : je suis mauvais en anglais mais je vais faire un effort c'est pas sûr que les anglophones me comprennent :lol: . I speak english very bad sorry ^^ but i'm French :lol:
et surtout je suis un fan de northstar (Vega in french) !!! I love northstar :lol: !!!
Welcome Laurent! Don't worry about your english, I can read your french just fine, I just can't write in french any more, those skills have been lost with the pointless destruction of brain cells. We have a number of francophones here, most are from Quebec. Sylvie actually basically leaned to speak and write english through the Alpha Waves mailing list (now basically merged into the forum) and by reading comics in english. Her boyfriend Bruno is learning fast :)
Enjoy your time here, and we have some lovely french pastries cooling in the cupboard.
Ben
Bonjour Harfang,Quote:
Originally Posted by Harfang
Je suis Sylvie et je suis Québécoise, donc, j'ai pas de problème avec ton français, même, j'adore :twisted: Pour ce qui est de ton anglais, tu n'as qu'Ã* te pratiquer sur ce forum. C'est comme cela que je maintiens un niveau d'anglais écrit raisonnable. C'est un groupe vraiment gentil et ils vont t'aider avec ton anglais et/ou ignorer tes fautes.
Est-ce que tu lis tes comics en anglais ou en français? Moi, j'ai commencé Ã* lire une version traduite ici au Québec et ensuite j'ai lu les comics en anglais. Je n'ai jamais lu la traduction française venant de France. Et je dois dire que cette traduction me tombe sur les nerfs quand j'en lis.
Alors, tu viens de qu'elle ville en France? Je sais du sud, mais c'Est gros le sud.
Alors bienvenue sur Alphawaves.
Salut sylvie , je savais bien que les quebecois me sauveraient :lol:
J'ai commencé par lire les comics edités en France ; je comprends que tu n'aimes pas trop etant donné que leur version n'est pas tres bonne mais le nouvel editeur semble faire quelques efforts pour mieux rapprocher la traduction francaise de l'anglaise . Sinon j'achete de temps en temps quelques versions anglaises , surtout celles qui ne seront jamais editées en France
Alpha fight s'etant arreté en France il y a plus de 10 ans :cry:
sinon je vis a Sète au bord de la mer Mediterrannée (si tu connais l'ecrivain Paul Valery ou le chanteur Georges Brassens c'est leur ville natale :) )
bon je vais essaier de parler en anglais maintenant (si j'y arrive :D ) qu'un maximum de personne me comprenne
++ Sylvie , ravi de faire ta connaissance
Heh, ton mauvais anglais ne pause pas de problèmes Harfang (en passant, je pense que c'est un nom pas mal plus cool qu'en anglais), puisque ton anglais est pas mal meilleur que mon français. Bienvenue sur ce forum et fait attention aux gremlins dans le placard. Ils ont développé une préférence pour la nourriture exotique (Merci Ã* Sylvie pour la traduction, je suis vraiment nul en français) :D
Wow Allan, yer french has never been better ;)
Ben
.....
Am just gonna leave it at "Ello" methinks :D
je dois dire que la traduction des nom de code était un de mes pire cauchemars. Surtout Wolverine en Serval. Qu'est-ce qu'un animal du nord Africain Ã* avoir avec un canadien? Ici, on a un terme très joli pour traduire Wolwerine et c'est Carcajou. Et j'ai tjs trouvé cela drôle qu'un personnage Québécois francophone se fasse traduire son nom de code dans la version français, mais bon, il y aurait un histoire Ã* faire sur ce sujet, je pense. Pourquoi choisir un nom de code imprononsable en français quand il est lui-même francophone et souverainiste?:)Quote:
J'ai commencé par lire les comics edités en France ; je comprends que tu n'aimes pas trop etant donné que leur version n'est pas tres bonne mais le nouvel editeur semble faire quelques efforts pour mieux rapprocher la traduction francaise de l'anglaise .
Northstar name is translated in Vega in France, I always find this funny and think there is a story to made out of this. Since in french Northstar is very hard to say and JP been nationalist, I always thought he did that to pissed off Québécois.
Je sais.Quote:
Alpha fight s'etant arreté en France il y a plus de 10 ans :cry:
Alpha flight stopped been published 10 years ago un France, for those wanting to know what we are saying
Valery, je connais de nom et Bien Sûr que je connais Brassens. Quelle merveilleux chanteur! et qu'il était polisson. J'aime beaucoups Brassens.Quote:
sinon je vis a Sète au bord de la mer Mediterrannée (si tu connais l'ecrivain Paul Valery ou le chanteur Georges Brassens c'est leur ville natale :) )
MerciQuote:
++ Sylvie , ravi de faire ta connaissance
wolverine se traduisant en francais par glouton , les editeurs de l'epoque lui ont prefere serval
maintenant , en france on l'appelle par son nom anglais
Quant a Vega/Northstar , pour un nationaliste quebecois avoir un nom de code anglais c'est assez paradoxal tu trouves pas? :?:
Bien c'est ça que je veux dire au Québec Wolverine se traduit par carcajou. Et c'est un animal Nord-Américain, pas d'europe. On devrait bien le savoir non? Glouton, c'est en Europe ça. C'est comme Skunk, qui n'existe pas vraiment en France. Ici, on appele cela une Mouffette et non un blaireau ou un skonce. Tu peux voir les mots que je te dis dans le dictionnaire Larousse.Quote:
wolverine se traduisant en francais par glouton , les editeurs de l'epoque lui ont prefere serval
maintenant , en france on l'appelle par son nom anglais
C'est ce que je voulais dire. Je trouve cela très paradoxal.Quote:
Quant a Vega/Northstar , pour un nationaliste quebecois avoir un nom de code anglais c'est assez paradoxal tu trouves pas? :?:
Hey Harfang, bienvenue aux vagues d'alpha! :)