That's a great idea!
Which one is that again?
I hear ya.
Oh, that'd sell. :)
(And it's a brilliant pun.)
~ Le Messor
"Brains are an asset, if you hide them."
~ Mae West
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That's a great idea!
Which one is that again?
I hear ya.
Oh, that'd sell. :)
(And it's a brilliant pun.)
~ Le Messor
"Brains are an asset, if you hide them."
~ Mae West
I tried to clear up some of the things from that post, but I wasn't in time! I actually meant Lou Sadler, Jr.("Major Mapleleaf" the son [not the father], the character who got "killed" along with Zuzha Yu/Puck II in New Avengers # 16). It's amazing that nobody (neither Judd nor Mac nor Walt nor Michael* nor Heather mention anything about their fallen comrades. [* the least likely to have been brain-washed] Sure, mention is made to Heather killing Snowbird way-back-when, but the two newbies...what happened to them?
Mentioning them means admitting Volune 3 happened...
Exactly.
If they bring up one thing it'll lead to the other.
Not saying they won't bring the characters back from the dead at some point; comics after all.
For all its problems, 3 isn't my least favourite volume.
It's the only thing in the world I'm willing to call a 'guilty pleasure': for me, everything else is too guilty to be a pleasure, or too pleasurable to feel guilty about. (In practical terms, what that means is: If the guilt is about morality, if I think something is immoral to do, I try not to do it. (Which doesn't always mean I succeed.) OTOH, if it's about quality: if the point of something is enjoyment, and I'm enjoying it, I have a hard time saying it's bad. I can, however, see the objective badness of v3 but still enjoy it.)
Edit: Garry, looking at your post above, do you sometimes get that thing where you put up your post and all your carriage returns disappear? (That's actually the reason for this edit.)
~ Le Messor
"Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever."
~ Anonymous
I actually enjoyed V3. That's not saying much as that is the only volume I have been able to read from start to end with the help of the TBPs being on sale. I was skipping around reading V1 due to the order I was buying the back issues as I find them and I still have a few big gaps in my V1 collection to fill. My favorite so far has been the team-up of F4 and the scrambled eggs attacking. With AF having tribal related characters also helped keep my interest. the only crazy moment I have had and got me going...WTH...is when Walter is a woman. Which I labeled the Caitlyn Issue. sorry to be off topic. Bring back dead Puck II!
Don't get me wrong; I enjoyed V3 a lot.
It did seriously damage AF's reputation though as they became a joke team with a joke book.
Hence the decision to kill them off.
Enough time has passed so they're finally respected again; they won't complicate things.
Heh - well technically the topic of this thread started as ALPHA FLIGHT being called (TEAM MEMBER) AND ALPHA FLIGHT (like NORTHSTAR and ALPHA FLIGHT as the series name; sort of like WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN).
For Volume 1 - what issues are you missing?
And if you're only WTF moment in V1 was the Walter as a woman, I'm surprised!
Which is odd - because look at the Great Lake Avengers, or Squirrel Girl... Plenty of joke characters that actually thrive...
Of course, the New Warriors suffered the same fate; that dreaded limited series (very cartoony and silly story) sealed their fate apparently to be the ones to die to trigger Civil War...
Issues #2-4 and 18? Those are some of my favourites, too.
That's more than one issue.
Hence the guilt to my pleasure. :oops:
Mekko does have some huge (but as yet undisclosed) gaps...
Howard The Duck, JLI...
I know it's subjective, but I enjoy the humour in all those books more than v3 (but I do enjoy the humour in v3).
There's something... a certain je ne sais quoi that makes those titles all different to v3. I want to say they respect their characters, but not all of them do. There's a respectability to them, though, that's lacking in v3.
~ Le Messor
"Tony the Tiger, Snap, Crackle and Pop were all murdered. Police are on the hunt for a cereal killer."
I have some down time this weekend I planned to go see what issues I am missing and hope to go to a couple stores in searching of AF. The nearest store is an hour away from where I live. but with that said, I did find the TPB of The Gift and the Spiderman/AF team up recently.
The most recent issues I read where the 4-part miniseries that had to deal with Her (I actually only read 2 issues of that so far) but that seems to be good so far.
and I read the Amazing X-Men/ AF Wendigo event.
Less embarrassing than Vol.3.