Originally Posted by
rplass
What changed in 25 years to make this true now but demonstrably false then? ***EDIT***Alpha Flight is awesome and it rocks hard dude, a good writer/artist can do great things with the team and it should have its own ongoing title. It was true 25 years ago and is just as true today.
Hmmm...can't say that I agree. Consider what the lucky writer gets to contend with:
"I'm going to use Talisman in the book." Talisman? You mean Shaman? "No, Talisman - Shaman is dead. Talisman is his daughter that has Shaman's pouch - and is essentially the tribe's new Shaman." Oh.
"I think Aurora would be fun too". Well, apparently Aurora isn't the most 'fun'. "Yes, Jeanne-Marie would be fun to play around with too." I wasn't talking about her either. "Oh."
"And of course what is the team without Puck?" Definitely - we need someone with agility, plus Puck was kind of hot. "No - not that Puck! The original!" The old man? "Well, not anymore..." But what I mean is the super-densed- skin one right? "Well, not anymore..." Oh.
"And I figure how can you have a team without Guardian?" But he's dead. "No, Byrne brought him back remember?" But no, he's dead... "Yeah, yeah, he died fighting Galactus too but they brought him back" No. I'm telling you - he's dead! "Oh please, don't get me started on that nonsense that Chuck Austen wrote in Uncanny. Guardian survived that!" Um, but no, he's dead again. "Oh."
And so on and so on. These characters were a breath of fresh air in the 80's, but they are so damaged now that I don't hold out much hope for them, much as I love them.