Crackity Jones' Discovery Of Alpha Flight

[Le Messor]

That's one of the many issues I had with Llan. To me, he was written to be "Looks How Bad Arse And Evil I Am" - and didn't do it in a way that really showed it properly. To me, it seemed like Hudnall was trying too hard - to show how "evil" Llan was.

I hate that... but at least it's a villain doing it here!

I'm missing most of Mantlo's run, save for some of the less offensive issues,

My reading brain went on the fritz. I kept reading that as 'I really miss those offensive issues', not 'I have none of the issues except the less offensive ones', which you clearly meant.

The thing that bugs me about when he hooks back up with Lil is how in one panel she calls him 'Mr. Jeffries' which is just weird for an ex-lover to do...

To be fair, he never liked going by his first name.
To be unfair (?), the 'Mr.' makes it sound weird.

Speaking of which, I'd love to attempt to re-draw some of that run for practice,

I tried that too, once. I just didn't get very far (ran out of steam after a few pages; and I was working from the art, not the script).

Last time I saw him he looked like Reed Richard's long lost brother, though, and acted like he'd become autistic or something... Have I missed anything good, or is this more a case of the absence of outstandingly bad developments passing as good enough?

Whatever happened, it happened in X-Men and Weapon X... I'm probably missing a lot of the X-Men issues, but I think it's just one of those cases of 'We want to write a bunch of dull, emotionless characters (or angry, nasty characters) with nothing to make people want to read them. Uh... uh... It's Realistic! You'd be that way too, if you'd been through what this character has been through! REALISTIC!!!!!!!!!!!'

~ Le Messor
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
~ Albert Einstein