Quote Originally Posted by Garry/Al-Fan View Post
Phil, if you know somebody at MARVEL who can shed some light on what is happening with ALPHA FLIGHT,
please see if they would be willing to say something.
I'm as in front of the curtain as you guys.
I have no clue what's going on I'm afraid.
Anything I know comes through news sites/social networking etc.

In that respect we're a lot more spoilt by news than we were in the 70's/80's.

The team and the fans have suffered for a very long time (unnecessarily)
I get your passion and feel the same, I really do, but we haven't suffered.

and MARVEL has shown that it can publish a decent Alpha Flight story.
It's also shown it can publish a bad one.
The oneshot hasn't erased Vol.3 #12 and magically fixed the opinion of everyone in the world.

Backhanded in the sense that if Alpha is really back for good, then Pak and Van Lente should have been allowed to give Alpha a little more attention...a tighter connection to the Incredible Hercules.
Let's not forget that it wasn't AF's story.
It wasn't a war to specifically bring them back.
Their return was a nice byproduct that they really didn't have to do.
It was Herc's story and they told it.

Backhanded in the sense that, yes, Alpha is included in the Big money-makiing crossover EVENT but not in a way that will make it easy for new readers to identify the group.
That's what an AF #1 is for, not Chaos War #5 though.
To put in all of AF's history would have taken a handbook.

MARVEL has proven it can do it.
Has it? Let's not forget that as much as I loved the oneshot it only sold 17,164.

What remains to be seen is if MARVEL will do it again. And again. And again.
Ultimately it comes down to readers voting with their wallets. Again and again.
Marvel is a business, let's not forget that. They can't just print money to please a very small, yet loveable , minority of the readership.