I read #53 tonight, and I forgot to read the annuals (AGAIN), so I'm hoping that in the annuals is where all these new characters come from, like Goblyn...and cannot even recall the others' names. Because if they didn't pop up in the annuals, I have NO IDEA where the hell they came from because it went from #52 to Bedlam kidnapping all of Heather Flight and a bunch of characters I'd never heard of.
I ALMOST gave up on Alpha Flight today, guys.
I had never been so close to giving up on the series as I was today. The beginning of #53 just...I couldn't handle it.
But I forced myself to read on (it took me, like, an hour to get through that issue because of all the breaks I took, because: it was awful).
I'm probably as glad as I'll ever be, during Mantlo's run, that I didn't give up because Heather *kind of* redeemed herself. At last partially. Not a TON, but it was SOMETHING.
She apologized for thinking tons of bad things about Mac.
And then she had a tender moment with Jeffries (D'oh!), but still. It's more than I've gotten from her in ALLLLL of Mantlo's run so far.

It's the small things, I guess.