Wolverine #304 (2012) - Return of an Alpha Flight member

[Phil]

you don't vote for kings!

Treason! Off with his head!

[Flightpath07]

You don't vote for kings!

I do, just nobody ever counts my vote.

[Le Messor]

Well, in a feudal democracy, it's your Count who votes...

Phil, all you need to do is find some watery tart distributin' cutlery.

[-K-M-]

Oh bother, Loeb just showed Department H's team before Alpha Flight.

[Flightpath07]

Oh bother, Loeb just showed Department H's team before Alpha Flight.

?!?!??!?!?

Department H, BEFORE Alpha Flight?!?!

That's it, i give up.

btw, does that count as an AF appearance? Is James Hudson in the book?
Note: Don't click on this following link if you want to read Wolverine 313 without any spoilers! You've been warned! http://ca.ign.com/articles/2012/09/2...ine-313-review Seems people are REALLY unhappy with what has been done to Wolverine...

[-K-M-]

Yeah back in the old days Department H had a team of superhumans running around before Alpha Flight....unlikely we will see (unless flashback) or hear about them ever again.

No James or any other Alphans were in the book....thankfully.

[-K-M-]

Here's the team, not my scan but here you go....

[Le Messor]

You sure that wasn't published in 1996?

[-K-M-]

Pretty sure or we would see Rob Liefield drawing it and would have more pouches....lots more pouches

[EccentricSage]

More pouches, but otherwise same character designs... Except maybe the skinny one woulda been a chick with huge boobs, huge hair, and a belted wasp-waist.

In short, this looks pretty terrible, and I hope it is never spoken of again. I guess Loeb has not recovered his sanity.

[Flightpath07]

Any chance Bayonet is the father (or grandfather) of a certain Volume 2 character? Anybody remember organic steel limb blades?

[Sypes]

Any chance Bayonet is the father (or grandfather) of a certain Volume 2 character? Anybody remember organic steel limb blades?

Well that would be cool! I'm assuming Flex and Radius had the same mother but perhaps not the same father?

[Flightpath07]

Y'know...not totally understanding how this is all supposed to fit into what has already been established in Alpha-lore.

That being said and over with...I'm actually interested in these characters. Who are they? Where did they come from? What happened to them? I Want To Know!

(maybe these guys should get their own Thread here?)

[Phil]

I think the only connection is that *IF* it turns out to be true and not another Romulus mindgame, is that the Canadian government had a super-team before AF, and that Dept. H was running before we originally thought, and not named after James Hudson... (though possible after the other Hudsons that supposedly worked for Romulus).

Having all been killed in the same flashback, I don't think we'll ever see anything of them again.

I'm hoping it is all just lies and mindgames though, to be fair.

[Le Messor]

I think the only connection is that *IF* it turns out to be true and not another Romulus mindgame, is that the Canadian government had a super-team before AF, and that Dept. H was running before we originally thought, and not named after James Hudson...

Well, there's a new series (that's actually not bad) about how Wolverine founded the X-Men before Xavier. And now he founded Dept. H / Alpha Flight before Hudson.
Now I'm expecting to learn he founded the Avengers before Loki.
And the Fantastic Four before Reed.
And Power Pack before Whitemane.

~ Le Messor
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