new maxi series................alpha flight!!!!

[Le Messor]

Shaman has facepaint on...

I'm not seeing it, but it wouldn't be the first time. I notice his costume has 'fangs'.

The following is based on my email to The Master when he sent me the news yesterday (I didn't have time to read this thread when I got home last night) :

I wonder if that's something I'll pick up?


I note Aurora's using her gold costume from later Byrne issues.

I'll start with the negatives, because I swing that way.
Certain things fill me with trepidation:

The hard right fascist government story hook didn't hurt, the writers explained.

*sigh*, at least they're not working for them, or this'd be v2 all over again. Just once I'd love to see them do something actually daring and original, though - like a hard left government that's just as bigoted and hateful as a right - only with the opposite targets.

it fits right in with the 'Fear Itself' story line,

Ugh. And, I'll probably have to pick that up, too.

Pak said he had multiple copies of the "Alpha Flight" relaunch by John Byrne
and
noting that this will be the first appearance of the original team working together as one force on the page maybe ever

These are quibbles, but it causes a slight worry in that it shows a lack of knowledge of their history, which could bite them later.
Byrne has never relaunched Alpha Flight, and they have worked together on the page before - at least, the team as it'll appear in this book has (#s 3-5).

Things which fill me with much hope:

Alpha Flight

'nuff said.

YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

overall he (Northstar) will become a full-time Canadian again.

Does that mean I can stop picking up Uncanny? Please, please take Madison Jeffries, too! (He was a Byrne character.)

Neither:

Asked whether the book will feel a bit dated,

I hope so!!!!!!!!!



Comments:

each time the fans have said, we don't just want a team with the name Alpha Flight on the cover, we want the originals back...

Were they quoting me, I wonder? (It's something I've said online multiple times, and my kind of phrasing.)

I love Anxy's comment on page 3.

I'm going to have to buy it because it's their last shot but I'm just not that interested.

It's *always* their last shot. At least Marvel hasn't (that I know of) said this yet.

It's not so much ignoring what came later, as not referencing it.

Uh, the difference being...?

Not from my email:
I'm so excited! I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control, and I think I like it!