Avengers #10 Preview At CBR

I was thinking, "I Want To Ride My Bicycle", if that is the way you'd travel to Perth from your house.

Well, that is how I get to work.

Originally Posted by Legerd

I'd like to know why the Avengers are the team to go in and save OF instead of AF?

We don't actually know that there is an Alpha Flight after the events of Volume 4; they were outlaws, shut down by the government and had no official status. Although then that means the Hulk:Mayan Rule arc needs a bit of working.

Plus the Avengers have official SHIELD status as guardians of the entire world, not just America, and have experience with these particular enemies.

Although then that means the Hulk:Mayan Rule arc needs a bit of working.

Phil, I hate to throw a bunch of blame on editorial staff, but...

...isn't this part of their job? And, IF these facts are supposed to be checked by 'junior editors' or such, are the Senior Editors not STILL responsible for making sure that the Juniors get all their facts correct?

But if it doesn't contradict any facts, there's nothing to get correct, which isn't a fault.
Does it actually say in the arc that AF are working for the government?
To my recollection it says something about Ross contacting them as per international protocols but that could have meant he went straight to Mac rather than through the government. Tenuous possibly but that's what I mean by a bit of working.

Besides, #10 will probably clear up as to why AF aren't about.

Originally Posted by Phil

Besides, #10 will probably clear up as to why AF aren't about.

That'd be nice. Usually with Alpha, things get more cluttered and confusing, not more clear.

Originally Posted by Phil

We don't actually know that there is an Alpha Flight after the events of Volume 4; they were outlaws, shut down by the government and had no official status. Although then that means the Hulk:Mayan Rule arc needs a bit of working.

Plus the Avengers have official SHIELD status as guardians of the entire world, not just America, and have experience with these particular enemies.

I thought at the end of Vol. 4 AF was vindicated (no pun intended) when they captured the Master. I mean they were standing around with a bunch of regular folks doing clean up at the end weren't they? No one was trying to arrest, or blow them up. And they were acting, it would seem, as Canada's official reps with the Mayan invasion. Has there been anything in or out of the comics to suggest they are still on the run?

I know the Avengers have worldwide jurisdiction (something that makes me question the intelligence of the UN since many of the heroes on the team have done some very shady things recently), but that still doesn't explain why AF isn't working alongside the Avengers on Canadian soil, assuming they aren't still wanted criminals. Of course if they are still wanted criminals then why haven't the Avengers been called in to apprehend them?

There's a difference between being wanted criminals and officially working for the Government, though.
It could well be like Vol.1 #1 where they've been disbanded.
Just because they're not on the run/wanted criminals, doesn't mean that th new Prme Minister has reinstated them as a paid, national team.

But as I say, it's all speculation till next month.

It's a bit odd since there hasn't been a hero Omega Flight since Michael Porter. Even "Alpha Strike" MIGHT have made sense. I wish they'd have been called Beta Flight. That way we could assume AF was either "Out of the Country" or it was "NHL Trade Deadline Day" so they all called in sick or something. Hopefully this is just making up for the LAST time Alpha was in an Avengers book...

So the robot character isn't human? Who do you think the other human is, a new character or someone we know? A Wendigo who 'dies', a robot of some sort who 'dies'? And the two humans, Validator and that guy? I guess time will tell.

Well, I live in... Perth and we certainly were not bombarded by bio-weapons from Mars. But then again, I don't think we live on Earth 616.

I must say that the new Deodato art looks cool -- and I have no idea who the new Omega Flight characters are. Remember back in the early days of AF that there were 3 tiers: Alpha, Beta and Omega, so perhaps these are just brand-spanking new characters. Validator is a bit of a strange code name though...

The Male reminds me a bit of an older Flex.

Originally Posted by sengsterooney

Well, I live in... Perth and we certainly were not bombarded by bio-weapons from Mars. But then again, I don't think we live on Earth 616.

I think it happened, but it was a godawful small affair. At least, to the girl with the mousey hair.
Anyway, the chances of anything coming from Mars are a million-to-one... they say.

Originally Posted by sengsterooney

Remember back in the early days of AF that there were 3 tiers: Alpha, Beta and Omega, so perhaps these are just brand-spanking new characters.

I know you meant to say Alpha, Beta, and Gamma!
But I do think these are just new characters.

~ Le Messor
"It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire."

Well, the diamond dogs are poachers and they hide behind trees, hunt you to the ground they will, mannequins with kill appeal. Not Box-like. Or Box-lite.

Oh, Mokole - your eyes can be so cruel... just as I can be so cruel.
Then again, it's only forever - not long at all.

Well Le Messor, I can safely say I'm not strung out on lazers or back slashed blazers, though I ate all your razors while pulling the waiters...talking about Monroe, and walking on Snow White?

Y'see, Mokole, the television man is crazy, saying we're all juvenile delinquent wrecks.
Like I need TV when I've got T-Rex.

Sure, Le Messor, I see, you've got your transmission and your live wire, you got your cue line and a handful of ludes; you wanna be there when they count up the dudes!

Mokole, it's just you and your idol singing falsetto loud. Do you remember the bills you have to pay? Or even yesterday?

Ah, Le Messor. You acted funny trying to spend my money, you're out there playing your high class games; leather, leather everywhere and not a myth left from the ghetto.