Favorite guest appearances?

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Favorite guest appearance of the entire team in another book
Lots of choices, some good ones already listed. One of my personal favorites isMarvel Two-In-One #84 (Vol.1). This was the original fight with Ranark theRavenger many years ago. Say what you will about his classic look (his recentlook was pretty awesome), but he was a serious threat and had majorimplications if the heroes lost. Not only did the Team fight against such apowerful foe, each member of the team was shown A LOT of respect. They were allhandled well and showed a wide range of their abilities, and which evenimpressed Thing. Lots of respect for the team here

Other notable choices: Avengers #320-324 (Vol.1), Wolverine: First Class#5, Wolverine: Origin of an X-Man, Uncanny X-Men #120-121, Amazing X-Men #8-12(Vol.2), Wolverine #172 (Vol.2), Wolverine #179-180 (Vol.2), Machine Man #18,Marvel Team-up Annual #7

Favorite guest appearance of a singlemember of the team in a book
Snowbird in Incredible Hercules #116-120. I really enjoyed this story, andhaving Snowbird in it and shown with such respect and power? Awesome. I lovedher first scene when she puts Weapon Omega (Michael Pointer) in his place. Asthe story went on, we saw more character development for her and her guilt shefeels that she let her team and friends down. She would go on to have the mostBOSS scene in the entire book taking on thousands of slave gods herself (Sheeven did better than Demogorge). Then when we all thought she perished, shecomes back and was crucial in defeating the Skrull God. Awesome

Other notable choices: Sasquatch in Hulk Annual #8, Marrina in PowerPack #9-10, Shaman in Wolverine #110 (Vol.2) , Puck in Wolverine #35-37(Vol.2), Snowbird in Marvel Heart Breakers

Favorite guest appearance of anothercharacter in an alpha flight book.
Super Skrull in Alpha Flight #11 (Vol.1). Great art and awesome fight. It was agreat character development story for Walter too.

Other notable choices: Diablo -Alpha Flight #21 (Vol.1), Namor – Alpha Flight #36 (Vol.1),Avengers – Alpha Flight #39 (Vol.1), Lady Deathstrike in Alpha Flight #34(Vol.1), Avengers – Alpha Flight #97-100 (Vol.1)

Least favorite guest appearance ofthe entire team in another book
Lots and lots of choices for this category. Hard to peg down just one. Big onefor me was Uncanny X-Men #422 (Vol.1) as the team was treated as such jokes. Theyalmost were acting like villains, and when the fight occurred most of the team weretaken out from behind and defeated in ridiculously ways. Only Sasquatch wasgiven some form of respect. Terrible, terrible issue. However, Austen’s run isuniversally panned so it shouldn’t be a surprise this issue was the same.

Infinity Crusade was close to being my choice. If we didn’t get the AlphaFlight tie-in issue (Alpha Flight #127) it would have been. In the main book,Windshear easily gets beat by Vision, Sasquatch says he is “no where near asstrong as Thing” (What????), Puck getting beat by Firestar, Wolverine ko’ingShaman with a single punch, Sasquatch has a naked Hulk fall on him from spaceknocking out... and when he awakes Black Knight shaved the back of his fur off,etc, etc. In the tie-in they tried to explain most of it, such as Windshearcould have beat Vision but chose not to, Shaman wanted to be ko’ed so he couldgain intel in his astral form, Sasquatch ends up brutally beating She Hulk whoat the time was equal to Thing in strength, etc. Crusade still brutally butchered thecharacters though, but the tie-in saved it a little.

Other notable choices: Uncanny X-Men #355

2) Least favorite guest appearance of a single member of the team in a book
Sasquatch in Generation X #19. So insulting to the team. Literally lots and lotsof insults to the team.

Other notable choices: Sasquatch in Wolverine #53-54 (Vol.3) - Loeb wasmaking him out to be a lupine mutant (and was overall pointless being there),Wild Child in X-Factor #112-142 – hated that rendition of Kyle. Marrina in DarkReign: The List – X-Men #1 – Oh awesome Marrina is back...oh and now she isdead. I could make a huge list so I will stop it here haha

Least favorite guest appearance ofanother character in an alpha flight book.
Hulk in Alpha Flight #29 (Vol.1), first issue without Byrne and hated how Hulkwalked through the team. Sure some were not exactly active, but for a writergetting on board you would think he would give the team a little more respect

Other notable choices: Wrecking Crew – Alpha Flight #118-119(Vol.1)

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Favorite guest appearance of an AlphaFlight villain(s) in another book
Surprising not many options. Seems Alpha Flight villains don’t venture in toomany books outside of Alpha Flight. However, sure this won’t come as a surprisebut I pick the Master of the World’s appearance in Avengers #46-48 (Vol.3) asthe best. Here he is shown to be a true threat and rival to the always powerfuland dangerous Kang. Without the Master’s technology the Avengers would havelost. Sure they ignored the fact Master has shields which allowed Ms.Marvel todo what she did, but still a very respectable depiction of him.

Othernotable choices:Master of the World in Heroes for Hire #1-12 (Vol.1), Tanaraq in Amazing X-Men#8-12, Great Beasts in Wolverine #172 (Vol.2), Wendigo in various Hulk issues,Wild Child in Marvel Comics Presents #51-53 (Vol.1), Witchfire in X-Infernus

Least favorite guest appearance of anAlpha Flight villian(s) in another book
Even less options to go with. Wendigo has had a lot of terrible showings overthe years, but that’s far too easy to go with one of those. I guess I wouldhave to go with the Great Beasts in X-Man #39-40 (Vol.1). For being suchpowerful beings they were defeated way to easily. It could be could beexplained they were avatars, but I digress. The issue at the start gave them alot of praise and hype, but X-Man shouldn’t have defeated them how he did. Also X-Man defeating Tundra by feeding himenergy? When Mac tried to blast him it caused serious damage to the surroundingenvironment so that’s a fairly large contradiction there. Overall not aterrible issue, but not many choices to go through.
Other notable choices: Wild Child in Weapon X (hated mute Batversion, though wasn’t really a guest appearance)