... Volume 5 was entitled 'Northstar & Alpha Flight' ?
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... Volume 5 was entitled 'Northstar & Alpha Flight' ?
Depends what the story would be. Maybe "Northstar & Beta Flight" if he was the teacher / trainer and use his experience as Xmen teacher...
Who would be on his Alpha Flight team? Mixture of original and newer members?
Northstar & Alpha Flight? I like the idea of having Northstar being included in a volume 5. However, if Northstar is the major character, then I have to note that Northstar has already had his own mini-series (in the 90's), Northstar and Aurora got a huge amount of page-time in volume 4 (to the detriment of other characters), and vol. 4 was different from vol.3, which was different from vol.2, which was different from vol. 1.
Without taking it to OMEGA FLIGHT mini-series extremes, a roster with some recognizable characters and maybe 1 or 2 new/not-usual-to-Alpha Flight characters is what I would like to see.
OTOH, if a particular Alpha Flight character is to be high-lighted, Northstar appears to be the logical choice. He is the most high-profiled member.
It was just me spitballing ideas.
Marvel have said that they still have 15 titles left to announce, shipping in December onwards.
December solicits will be announced in September.
Fan Expo Toronto is in September... This would be a great time to announce an AF series...
I don't think an AF series will get a chance, based on the 45 titles already announced, however there are the constant rumours and rumblings of a Northstar series, based on that trademark a while back.
Would having the addition of Northstar in the title add some extra sales that just plain 'Alpha Flight' wouldn't, due to his X-Men connection and all the publicity from his wedding?
Or would a solo Northstar series work/sell better in the current market?
Northstar / Dazzler team-up is still my realistic guess. I already predicted this : http://www.alphaflight.net/showthrea...ll=1#post82762 and I got X-Club right!
Sasquatch should be on the Howling Commandos team. Or just bring back Alfalfa Flight.
Well technically Walter was briefly on the team. The new book is a rehash of Legion of Monsters
Original question:
Personally, I wouldn't like it, to be honest. It would make me think that the ONLY reason AF had the book was because Northstar is gay. Not because he's an interesting character, or because his powers are cool, or he was an X-Man.
It certainly wouldn't be about Alpha Flight. (Garry has already cited the example of v4).
(And then, if there's a letters page, you'll get the inevitable letters implying this is the only book on the market with a gay character, and the condescending letters from Europeans about how they're better than Americans because they put sex scenes right there on the page...)
If it was 'Character And Alpha Flight', the only one who's been in every team (him, or somebody / something who looks like him) is Sasquatch.
Did we decide that was him for sure?
~ Le Messor
"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
~ Voltaire
Thanks!
I think I read about that at the time, then forgot.
I never liked the "_______ & the (Team Name)" - because I feel it limits the book. What if another writer comes on, and wants to politely exit Northstar? They can't. Northstar HAS to be on the team because it's IN the title.
But then they get to reboot it with a new #1 when he leaves
Now, Phil, that would never happen! :D
(Reminds me of the time when I picked up a copy of Nightcrawler and a copy of Amazing X-Men; and the Amazing X-Men focussed entirely on Nightcrawler, and the Nightcrawler had all the X-Men in it...)
~ Le Messor
"As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood."
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Is that title Thor?
Now you got me curious too Tawmis as to what this ONE Marvel title is. I thought Thor also but the identity of Thor was revealed back in May. Those 8 issues of Thor were probably the best Marvel issues I've read lately.
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Thanks, Mokole. (Chris had PM'd me with the answer - for spoilers' sake.)
~ LM
"Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you."
~ Bumper Sticker
Hah! No. It's not THOR. Jason Aaron is writing that. I gave up after issue #5 or so.
It's actually "Age of Apocalypse."
And as for who I suspect a "new" character is in the series - his name is "Burner."
But I have a feeling he's known as something else in - what was once - the 616 Universe, based off of something the character said. (and who the writer is)
I had the same thoughts as you on that character, and thought you'd like it ;)
And this strengthened our thoughts:
http://www.newsarama.com/25072-fabia...ars-later.html
Quote:
Nrama: Who are Magneto’s X-Men in this version of the Age of Apocalypse reality? Is it close to the original line-up, or are there some surprises?
Nicieza: Some surprises for sure. Familiar faces, but maybe some of them in unfamiliar roles or combinations. The X-Men are down and out, not many of them are left (and maybe a lot less after the first issue). I don't want to reveal too much about who is on the roster or who makes it through to the end. You'll see lots of the usual suspects, but you'll see some of them in a different light.
Nrama: One of the coolest parts of Age of Apocalypse was seeing all the re-imagined X-Men characters. Will we see any new ones pop-up in the Secret Wars series?
Nicieza: You will see one specific re-imagined character. I took someone and tried to do the "Sunfire treatment" with him, by radically altering their look like Scott Lobdell and Joe Madureira did in the original book with Sunfire.
You'll see who it is in Age of Apocalypse #1 and many fans will probably guess who he is well before #2 comes out.
The give away was, "It just takes one cut."
So... if I am right, I will be happy. (Not a fan of the reimaging of the character, if it is who I suspect... but I will take what I can!)
It just wouldn't work for me (the Northstar and Alpha Flight idea). Time and time again the character has stated that he did not want to be on the team so unless it was an extremely limited series... I for one would like to go back to when Alpha was slaughtered by Pointer in The Avengers and start from there (if all goes according to my plan I may have something to show in a couple of months).
I hope MARVEL decides to bring Alpha Flight back in an EPIC-style, magazine format...maybe a one-shot since an on-going doesn't seem likely.
Illustrations, stories with a beginning-middle-and-end, with some prose. Black-and-white for a first printing; color if a second printing is justified.
Give it the name of the magazine that was in the Omega Flight mini-series, if Michael Oeming and Scott Kollins don't mind.
Interesting thought there, Garry. If it were Epic-style, it might be more like a creator-owned project, and therefore somebody's 'baby', so less likely to be taken out the back and shot. Like before.
OTOH, it'd be out-of-Code style (yes, I know *everything* has been out of Code for years, I said style) which I'm not fond of.
That could still be a really good series. If the creators cared about the source material, of course.
Do you mean call it Omega Flight, or the name of something that was inside the mini- and I've forgotten it? (Me, I'd prefer to call it Alpha Flight, but whatevers.)
~ Le Messor
"Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."
~ David Ben-Gurion
I had to go back and find it (in the 1st issue of the mini-series) because I couldn't remember the title off the top of my head. It's got Alpha Flight on the cover and Dr. Strange. I just hope that a creator-owned outlet might work. At least, it would be different. Hopefully, tasteful and true to the source material.
To me, Omega Flight will always be one of Alpha's main adversaries.
I think that's the name of a real tabloid. If not, it's very close.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
It was either that or News Of The World, with a photo of a giant robot going mad and killing people.
I don't think an Epic-style format would sell in this market, but I do like the idea.
I thought the version of Alpha Flight we got after Chaos War was pretty good. Granted Marinna was a little over the top; but that could have been a story to develop to "calm" her down before she resumes the natural alien form thing. I thought it was a nice, clean, in your face, type of book. A shame it didn't get to become a series.
'nice, clean' AND 'in your face' all at the same time?
How does it do that!?!
I enjoyed Vol.4 a lot more than 3, it was definitely a shame to see it go.
I thought 8 issues of volume 4 was enough to tell that particular story. It really doesn't need to be revisited.
I liked the sleek, crisp artwork of volume 3, 'though I wish Alpha Flight wasn't treated like a joke.
The Alpha Flight/Chaos War one-shot is still good and still a good starting point for another mini-series.