Alpha Flight #24 (kinda) and Marvel: The EndOriginally Posted by Phil
616 Aurora though?
Alpha Flight #24 (kinda) and Marvel: The End616 Aurora though?
I don't think The End is 616, but you're right about #24. She was killed, Sure, it lasted less than an issue, but she died.
Never did get to read that JLC/Justice League United which I had to search to see who was part of the JLC. Adam Strange, Supergirl, Hawkman, Green Arrow, Stargirl, Martian Manhunter and Animal Man, and the young Canadian Miiyahbin. Did anyone read this?
“God made only one of each of us. It's up to us to make the most of our individuality.” Kevin Max
I did. I had high hopes - it had Supergirl, Hawkman, Green Arrow who I am already fans of - and then I became a fan of Stargirl for her appearance throughout the New 52.
But the title did not feel like it had any pacing. It felt like it was everywhere. And I can't even stand Animal Man... Literally made the story almost unbearable every time he showed up... He's this "animal man" but came across as nothing more than an annoyance... I wasn't buying his "feral" nature.
What if?!?! Puck was an Hydra agent? Hail Hydra Eh!!
“God made only one of each of us. It's up to us to make the most of our individuality.” Kevin Max
I picked it up for a bit, because I wanted to see what they would do with the new character, Equinox. Sadly, the story kept stringing me along for months without her doing anything, being in costume, or even meeting the other heroes.
Sounds like a case of decompressed story-telling combined with the need for the Mystery.
What if John Byrne hadn't quit the book?
Sasquatch would not have died.
Snowbird would not have died.
Puck would not have a spirit in him.
Alpha Flight wouldn't have been replaced by a "B" Squad.
The downside, there would have been no Goblyn - who I actually liked (her and Laura). Though not enough to have replaced the rest of Alpha Flight.
I truly think that if he had remained on the book - though he claimed he didn't enjoy it - that the book would have done exceptionally well.
Alpha Flight, Equinox, & "psychic deaths"
Aurora/Jeanne-Marie, Northstar/Jean-Paul, and Talisman/Elizabeth suffered "psychic death" by Somon in AF (vol. 1) # 24; Walter helped save them all.
I didn't know there was another character named "Equinox" other than the Marvel one. It's too bad that nobody is really doing anything with characters...new or old...that I have a real interest in. Got any pictures of the DC character you can post?
I find Alpha Flight volume 1 #s 1 through 28 to be more memorable than a lot of the other, more celebrated work. What constitutes "drama" in a comic-book is something I still wonder about to this day: a lot of the vulnerability of the original character's definitely lends itself to life-or-death drama. What seems to separate what is believable and what isn't believable is the amount of effort put into the plausibility of the characterizations, motivations, and plot: some creators put some thought and effort into the plausibility, some did not.
Once upon a time, they exploded from the pages of The X-Men. For a moment, they were "Canada's answer to The Avengers."
They were ALPHA FLIGHT....
...once upon a time.
Who is the Marvel one?
(But I should warn you, if they're Alpha-Related, I'm gonna be most embarrassed.)
I find Byrne's work on AF and X-Men to feel far more real to me than anybody's work on the titles before or since. (Okay, there's no 'before' on AF.) It's more fun and natural than... well, most other comics period. Than any of the new age of 'realism' we've got to deal with, than any of that dark garbage that people rave about so much.
Uh... That isn't to say I think everything he's ever done is great, or that he's the only one doing any good work out there. I've enjoyed a lot of other things, a lot of them more than his X-Men, some of them almost as much as his Alpha.
~ Le Messor
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
~ George Washington, letter of instruction to the Virginia Regiments
Well remembered, good point.
Stargirl vs Aurora! How would this play out?
“God made only one of each of us. It's up to us to make the most of our individuality.” Kevin Max
What if?!?!? James Hudson was the an undercover Hydra agent wearing Captain American uniform?
“God made only one of each of us. It's up to us to make the most of our individuality.” Kevin Max
Would just be one more retcon that James would have to eventually go through. As if he's not been through enough.
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