The comment section of his DA journal. I went over, fangirled a bit, and asked about the possibility of pointy ears. Because they are important, dammit!
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I sense a presence. A presence I haven't felt since 1994.
Where's the fuming mad smiley?!
;)
Here is the next question/quote which I think is relevant.
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One of the things you both spoke about during our first T&A call was the idea that when you both started working together to look at the entire Marvel line, you had a selection of properties that had fallen a bit by the wayside that you wanted to try and reinvigorate. I don't know if it's too early to get into some of that, but I wanted to ask after where you're at in that process. Are there some things that have come closer to fruition in that discussion because it feels to me that there's not an awful lot from Marvel history that's entirely off the table these days?
Alonso: While we've talked about a few beloved B and C-list characters, we're also hunting bigger fish.
Brevoort: This is going to be an ongoing process. Part of that process is that we don't want to rush things. If we think there's a concept that has some genuine potential in it, and that over the years, it's not quite caught on or has been allowed to tarnish or been mishandled, or just not come together in the proper way, we want to give those ideas the best possible kickoff that we can. We need to make sure that the project we launch with is the right pitch, the right approach and the right creative team – the right everything!
We're having another creative retreat in a week, and we'll be talking about a couple of these properties fairly extensively there to see if the groundwork we've laid down will bear fruit over the next year. Or we may back away from certain things momentarily, much as we did with Thor when we couldn't get the creative team that we wanted. It was better to wait for the point that we did have a team and a situation we were comfortable with, and that really paid off. So we're following that same approach with the other three, four or five characters Axel and I have earmarked as potentially perennial parts of the Marvel publishing plan or the Marvel Universe in general. We're going to get to them all when the time is right. It's just not going to be machine gun fast.
This is going to kick a lot of ass. Nuff said.
Good news everybody!
... but you know already. This does look good for our heroes.
The artist is a little cartoony for my tastes, but not so much I'll automatically hate it.
Marvel, lately, have been taking all the character development and interaction moments, and what all, and shoving them into mini-serieses like Nation X and one-shots like Firestar and Dazzler, and calling them tie-ins to crossovers. Y'know, the stuff that should make up the main series?
They don't usually have much to do with the crossover, but I'd far rather read them.
I was very impressed by the Dazzler one-shot.
So, the same guy who wrote Dazzler, doing an Alpha Flight one-shot?
I want to withhold judgement until I've read it, but my hopes are high on this one.
Except he made one terrible mistake that Marvel will slay him for. It's an Alpha Flight title... so why are Alpha Flight in it? I thought that was banned?
Yay him for doing it!
btw... you shouldn't spank people when they've just had bran. It can get very messy.
- Mik
"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know."
~ Lao Tzu
What about he who types...Quote:
- Mik
"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know."
~ Lao Tzu
I dunno.
So, typing and speaking are eerily similar...
Like I've said before I don't really read comics anymore only returning when there is something Alpha related. This is the first I'm hearing of the Chaos War line and if its being used simply as a vehicle for Marvel to do a couple of resurrections then I'm all for it. But at the same time I was getting kind of used to having everyone minus Walt, Snowbird, and Talisman dead. For me I had always envisioned a new Alpha book as being something new with a couple of former members driving headlong into the future on a new course. Now I love the original team as anyone here and would love to see them all in action again but at thesame time I was hoping for a new twist or direction with the team.
I'll buy this without a doubt, hell I'll probably buy three copies to bump the numbers but I'm also going in with a little bit of doubt as we've been through this all before judt for the last couple of pages to end up completely mucking the whole thing up again.
I guess one of the things that always bothered me about Alpha Flight is that instead of the characters just taking a leave of absence from the team the writers tried to shoch us with killing them off (to the point that they could not be brought back at a later date). Other group titles (Avengers, F.F.,Justice League, etc.) have always had a revolving stable of members to draw upon over the years and I always wondered why ALPHA seemed to be treated differently.
DIGGER
PWalk - that's what's always been done before; an Alpha Flight book with a 'new twist or direction'. I can see your point about why you want that, but it isn't what I want. I want an Alpha Flight book with a recognisable Alpha Flight in it.
Digger - I think this was on the letters page, from an editor or writer: 'This is Alpha Flight, the least survivable book since Strikeforce: Morituri.'
So yeah.
- Le Messor
Ian Malcolm: "At some point, we are going to see dinosaurs on this dinosaur tour, right?"
John Hammond: "I hate that man."
- Jurassic Park
I guess the chaos war is Marvel's Blackest Night. As long as AF is back I don't really care, I won't be reading anything but the AF one-shot anyway.
Hmmm...I thought was Nekrosha was Marvel's Blackest Night? Has anybody noticed how many Marvel "events" involve dead folks, lately? Nekrosha, Curse of The Mutants and now Chaos War...Am I missing any?
Dana
EDIT: Marvel Zombies? Or does that even count, as it's dragged on so long?
Necrosha was just the X-Men instead of all Marvel, and most of the zombies went back to being dead afterwards (not that I know if the Chaos Reign resurrections will stick or not, but hey, it's worth noting.) That is a whole lot of undead overload for one year, though.
Maybe M. Knight Shamallan (don't know if it is spelled right, don't really care) is now employed by Marvel.
DIGGER
Very glad to see some form of Alpha Flight coming out. However, the "buy lots and we might make a series" line from Marvel is a little tired. Didn't they say the same thing about Omega Flight, but instead cut it down from an ongoing to a limited before it even came out, and despite it selling well?
Corvus, yes, you are right.
Also, didn't your avatar used to actually be a corvid? Or is the new one an albino?
(For future generations reading after Corvus's sig has changed, the new sig is a flying white bird.)
- Le Messor
"He who requires much from himself and little from others will be secure from hatred."
~ K’ung Fu-tse
I am imagining a zombie, lurching along, dragging one leg behind itself...Quote:
Marvel Zombies? Or does that even count, as it's dragged on so long?
You're lucky you're only imagining one...
I liked Marvel Zombies. Okay, okay, i only bought one issue, but it was entertaining.
The Fred Van Lente MZ books were quite entertaining actually. Aaron aka Machine Man with his Nextwave personality vs hordes of Zombies.
I posted this on another board, but I thought I should here too....We all know Fred Van Lent is a big fan of Alpha Flight, right? Wouldn't it be cool (if Alpha comes back for good), if Fred and Jim (McCann) did a cross-over with Alpha Flight and Fred's Avengers team? I think it would be awesome!
Dana :)
I checked the solicits for November and found the Chaos War:Alpha Flight blurb. Marrina's named is misspelled :mad: but it sounds like the team may play a major role:I thought the teammate who turns "bad" would do it to bring the team back, but it turns out he or she wants to kill the returning members again! :o Now I'm really intrigued about what the story is going to be.Quote:
As CHAOS KING and his army cut a path of destruction across the Marvel Universe, the return of Alpha Flight may just be what the heroes need to turn the tide. So why does one team member want to put Alpha Flight back in the grave?
Hmmmm....Could it be Mac? Shaman? Marrina? I doubt it would be Heather.
Dana
As long as those words don't include 'semprini'.
Because this isn't that kind of comic.
- Le Messor
"Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever."
~ Unknown
Maybe its Wild Child that wants to kill them all? Hey, a guy can hope, can't he?
Speaking of 'semprini' (another 'Circus' reference, I see!), I cannot spell "aardvark" or "diarrhea"; wait, scratch that, I might be wrong...
and when i say "scratch that", i do not mean the boil on my (see LM's word above)