alpha flight returns in chaos war!!!

[Phil]

More at:

http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.13657.chaos_war~colon~_alpha_flight

[Phil]

The newsarama interview makes me think The Master is involved;

McCann: It’s due to the Chaos King’s actions in Chaos War #3. I can’t say much without giving that away, but those actions attract a lot of attention, including one of Alpha Flight’s greatest foes.

[cmdrkoenig67]

The newsarama interview makes me think The Master is involved;

I thought that too, Phil. When it mentions their worst enemy...The Master has been one of Alpha's biggest big bads for almost all of Volume 1. The Dream Queen was another, but I can't see how she would have the ability to resurrect the dead (since she only really has the powers of illusion).

Dana

BTW: It would be cool if Mr McCann and Mr Jimenez joined us here.

Also BTW: I may have to change my sig.

[cmdrkoenig67]

I also hope that Mr McCann doesn't forget the family angle that was very strong in the original Alpha Flight (Mac and Heather, Shaman and Talisman, Heather and Talisman, Shaman and Snowbird and of course...Northstar and Aurora). That's a very hard angle to forget, but many past writers seemed to ignore it or just didn't get it.

Dana

[MistressMerr]

I also hope that Mr McCann doesn't forget the family angle that was very strong in the original Alpha Flight (Mac and Heather, Shaman and Talisman, Heather and Talisman, Shaman and Snowbird and of course...Northstar and Aurora). That's a very hard angle to forget, but many past writers seemed to ignore it or just didn't get it.

Dana

One thing that I always liked was how much of the classic lineup wound up having kids over the years. Mac and Heather had their unnamed daughter, Shaman had Talisman, Sasquatch had his unnamed son, Puck had Zuzha, Northstar had Joanne, Marrina had her three with Namor, Snowbird had her son. Aurora's the only one who never became a parent (even if none of them were particularly good at it), and I've always wondered if someone would ever touch on this.

[cmdrkoenig67]

One thing that I always liked was how much of the classic lineup wound up having kids over the years. Mac and Heather had their unnamed daughter, Shaman had Talisman, Sasquatch had his unnamed son, Puck had Zuzha, Northstar had Joanne, Marrina had her three with Namor, Snowbird had her son. Aurora's the only one who never became a parent (even if none of them were particularly good at it), and I've always wondered if someone would ever touch on this.

That's true...I'm guessing Walter's son would have to be a teen (at least I'd like to see him as a teen....It would be interesting to see a resentful teen son and Walter interact)...It seemed like Walt and Veronica had been divorced for a while before Volume One Started, probably even before he got involved with Alpha Flight? Were all of Marrina's "kids" killed? I know at least one of them was terminated by Namor.

I don't know how to take Mapleleaf and Puck II's supposed child, though....Many of the closing stories at the end of Lobdell's volume 3 seemed to be just tying up loose ends and didn't they all indicate that they were future events?...Such as The Major and Zuzha went on to get married and had a child, Centennial and Nemesis died at a later date. I'm thinking that not all of these things happened.

Dana

[Phil]

And I love the fact we currently have 44 guests reading the site!

Come closet Alpha Fans, join us!

[varo]

i think there may be a alpha series that they may have greenlighted as long as the one shot pulls respectable numbers. just to may hints at a mccann/jimenez alpha series to ignore, including breevort himself.

[Flightpath07]

Good news indeed.

That cover art looks a little scary, though, a bit too close to manga for my tastes.

Anyhow, i will be as interested to see how this one-shot concludes as to how the story itself reads. I mean, do they go back to being dead or do they stay alive?

Also, one article seems to say it comes out in October, the other November; which is it?

Back to the cover - now that I have looked at it a littler closer...[shudder]...thast is one of the worst Sasquatch's i have ever seen! And the twins look horrible, too, their bodies look all misshapen and Aurora looks practically 'flat', her brother has almost a bigger chest than she does!

On the good side, Alpha Flight returns! Yay!

And, i see that the interior artist is NOT the same as the one who did the cover - good!

[Legerd]

YES!!! I am going to buy my first Marvel comic book in about four years and it feels great!

[MistressMerr]

Here's a blog post about it on McCann's site: http://www.jimmccannonline.com/wordpress/?p=299

Not much new info, but I'm looking forward to this more and more!

[Ahab]

Here's a blog post about it on McCann's site: http://www.jimmccannonline.com/wordpress/?p=299

Not much new info, but I'm looking forward to this more and more!

Ben should invite him to this site since you can post a comment on his blog. I thought about doing it, but Ben deserves the credit for all of his hard work...

[Phil]

Ben should invite him to this site since you can post a comment on his blog. I thought about doing it, but Ben deserves the credit for all of his hard work...

As Ben's #2 I can safely say the wheels are in motion while Ben is away.

Stay tuned True Believer!

[Flightpath07]

Here's a blog post about it on McCann's site: http://www.jimmccannonline.com/wordpress/?p=299

Not much new info, but I'm looking forward to this more and more!

This looks VERY promising.

Getting goosie bumps already.

Seriously though, McCann mentioning the "alphans in space"...whoa! NOBODY at Marvel has mentioned them; I mean NOBODY. And the reason being, the Alphans in space supposedly were killed in NA16. Now, with that one simple line, McCann has me thinking, "or were they?" In fact, that might also lead me to ask the question, "if the Alphans who died in NA16 were not the Alphans from space, then who exactly is it that is being resurrected?"

Ohhh, my aching head...

On another note, wouldn't it be totally righteous to have a McCann interview done here for AF.net?



Personally, I think that at one point or another, McCann has visited this site already. He knows too much, too much about what it is we really want. Anybody else get that feeling as well? Perhaps he is reading this... right... now...

[MistressMerr]

Personally, I think that at one point or another, McCann has visited this site already. He knows too much, too much about what it is we really want. Anybody else get that feeling as well? Perhaps he is reading this... right... now...

The walls have ears. >_>

But I think that's just what happens when you get a writer who is genuinely passionate about a character/team, who's just as much a fan as anything. This is such fantastic news. XD

I could do with a different artist, but this guy's certainly not the worst thing ever to touch AF.