Alpha Flight Questionnaire
The Following is the official forum Alpha Flight Questionnaire. This automatically gets sent to new members. I would also like for existing members to take a minute to fill this out, as it is a great way to see the interests of fellow Alpha Flight Fans.
1. How long have you been collecting Alpha Flight? Since volume 1, #1. Couldn't take anymore after # 55. Picked up the Snowbird/God-War issue, the last Mantlo issue, and the first part of the Hudnall DreamQueen story, but didn't come back to it consistently until # 96 or so. Unfortunately, damage had already been done, and wasn't being undone. Stopped again around the Wrecking Crew story-arc. Have all twenty issues of volume 2, #s 2 - 12 of volume 3, plus the 1st tpb.
2. What was your first memory of Alpha Flight? Uncanny X-Men# 109. Solid story, all the way around. If recent, what was your first reaction? n/a
3. Who is you favorite Alpha Flight character? Shaman
4. Who is you least favorite Alpha Flight character? WHITMAN KNAPP
5. Who is you favorite Alpha Flight villain? Toss-up between THE MASTER,
THE GREAT BEASTS, and PESTILENCE
6. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight villain? SCRAMBLE (by far), but The Auctioneer, The Manimator, Scourge, and Razor all tie for a close second. Hope I didn't miss any other bad characters.
7. What do you think is the best issue/story-arch from Alpha Flight? Without a doubt, AFV1#s 23 and 24.
8. What do you consider the Alpha Flight "Dream Team"? Tom DeFalco, writer-co-plotter/John Byrne, co-plotter-penciller-inking-assist/Morales, inker/whoever lettered and colored volume 3/Roger Stern, editor
Characters: Shaman, Walt/Sasquatch, Snowbird, Talisman, Judd/Puck, Aurora, Northstar, Agent K
9. If you were to be stuck on a desert island with one member of Alpha Flight, Who would it be (powers can not get you off the island)
This does take comic characters a bit too far
10. Who was/is/could be the best leader of Alpha Flight? Shaman, with Sasquatch
11. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight writer? Tough one because this is the most problematic creative element, but still will give Byrne his proper respect. ADDED 3/29/06: James Hudnall does a fantastic job bringing back the classic characters while weaving interesting stories out the ashes of the terrible Mantlo run.
12. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight writer? MANTLO :evil: :evil:
13. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight artist? Clayton Henry is now tied with Byrne
14. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight artist? Mignola, Talaoc, Ross, Lee, just about everybody else
15. If you could undo one thing in Alpha Flight history, what would it be? I would have stopped publication of the ALPHA FLIGHT series with vol. 1, # 28 and not used them in other books until someone wrote them with some respect and consistency.
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Re: Alpha Flight Questionnaire
1. How long have you been collecting Alpha Flight?
X-men introduction, the first run up to 55 or so? Right after Roger Bochs death, I left, then collected part of the 2nd run, and some of the latest run.
2. What was your first memory of Alpha Flight? If recent, what was your first reaction?
Seeing this cool team fighting the X-men. I was a big Wolvie fan, but liked Cyclops as well, and Mac had a little bit of both. Kinda like FF mixed with X-men! Oh yeah, and John Byrne was what made it cool, followed everything he did.
3. Who is you favorite Alpha Flight character?
Of what's been written? Mac as Guardian. The first twelve issues made me really respect and want to be responsible like him.
Of what I would want to be written? BOX. Much potential there. Bryne had something there with Roger Bochs that I would've liked to see more of.
4. Who is you least favorite Alpha Flight character?
Any re-birth of Mac. Let him die. I miss him, but leave him dead.
5. Who is you favorite Alpha Flight villain?
The dysfunctiality of the team...they were their own worst enemy.
But for a "real" enemy: Jerry Jaxon's Omega Flight
6. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight villain?
Pink Pearl
7. What do you think is the best issue / story-arch from Alpha Flight?
The first 12 (13 really) issues. Wow.
8. What do you consider the Alpha Flight "Dream Team"?
The ORIGINAL with BOX (roger bochs version)
Guardian
Puck
Sasquatch
Aurora
Northstar
Shaman
Snowbird
Heather
9. If you were to be stuck on a desert island with one member of Alpha Flight, Who would it be (powers can not get you off the island)
Puck. I bet he could tell some stories.
10. Who was/is/could be the best leader of Alpha Flight?
Mac and Heather. Father and Mother.
11. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight writer?
Bryne
12. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight writer?
scott lobdell
13. Who is your favorite Alpha Flight artist?
Bryne
14. Who is your least favorite Alpha Flight artist?
Prolly someone that worked on the arcs I never bought...
15. If you could undo one thing in Alpha Flight history, what would it be?
Bringing Mac back.
- pjc