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New Recruit
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New Recruit
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New Recruit
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Department H
Hey Marisa, welcome to the site.
Sorry it's a bit quiet here lately!
That's some great work there, thanks for sharing!
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New Recruit
Thanks, appreciate it! You have an awesome site here!
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Harvester of Sorrows
Department H
Thanks for sharing your art, Marisa!
Do you just read X-Factor, or have you been going back and finding other, earlier Alpha Flight to read?
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New Recruit
Thanks! I went back and read the first 29 issues of the original Alpha Flight on Marvel Unlimited, and I liked it a lot so then I followed the characters to other appearances in other books. Is the rest of the original run after Byrne’s departure worth tracking down? I enjoyed the first 28 issues, but #29 was such a jarring change and quite a bit too heavy on the exposition for my tastes.
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Alpha Flight
The problem post Byrne is... each writer drastically had their own ideas, and treated the characters as if they had no previous stories, or utterly mis-handled their personalities, and some writers seemed hell bent on getting rid of original characters to bring in newly created characters... then other writers tried to fix that by mixing it... then they had quite a few questionable artists... then got caught up in gimmicks... then...
Yeah. It's sort of this chaotic train wreck that just goes off the rails REALLY quick, but the fall all happens in very, very, very, very slow motion. Like you're in this train, plunging to your doom, watching everything just slowly fall apart...
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Gamma Flight
I agree with Tawmis.
One thing that pissed me off with the Mantlo run is he admitted in a later interview that he didn't even like superheroes and preferred more monster type stories like Hellboy.
If that's the case then fine go do Hellboy and don't screw with my superhero team!
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Harvester of Sorrows
Department H
There were things like X-Men / Alpha Flight v 1, by Chris Claremont and Paul Smith that were good.
Oh, and their original appearances in X-Men.
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Administrator
Department H
So as not to derail this thread too much.
Partially inspired by some things I'd read elsewhere, and this thread:
http://alphaflight.net/showthread.ph...Byrne&p=106047
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