Neat story

[thebitterguy]

dewline alerted me to the existence of Canadiana, a web comic about a Canadian Superheroine who fights evil.

Quite a neat story, with cameos by Tom Thomson as a spirit guide, the Hamilton Psychic Fair, and a supernatural bureaucrat.

And now Marvel is saying "We'll bring back Alpha Flight", only I'm sure it'll be like the time Aquaman started the JLA in Detroit with the break dancing kid. Only we'll get it set in Thunder Bay with a squeegee kid.

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[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Thunder Bay with a squeegee kid would be very Canadian.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

When was *that?*

"*That*" being?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I must admit to not understanding your question.

If it's about Joe Quesada's promise to rebuild Alpha Flight after the apparent demolition of its core roster in New Avengers # 16, it was in "Joe Fridays # 38" (http://www.newsarama.com/JoeFridays/JoeFridays38.html) at Newsarama. Later installments seem to be dropping hints about Mark Millar's involvement in such a project...

[thebitterguy]

Mid '80s. Justice League collapsed and Aquaman decided to reform it with some new heroes who were pretty much uniformly lame.

It was a dark period in their history

Re: "*That*" being?

[(Anonymous)]

You mean, as opposed to the relaunch they did in the spirit of Giffen's Justice League? Also, I don't think they were killed: I think they just got their asses kicked. They're used to it, they're Alpha Flight; at some point, Marvel just decided they were only one step up from the Great Lakes Avengers. I wouldn't be surprised if Quesada notices Wisconsin is close to Canada and...

Uh-oh.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

That was me making with the anonymity. Sorry.

Justice League, the Detroit era

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Justice_League_members#Justice_League_Detroit_era

From here (http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/reference/justice_league): In 1984, in an attempt to emulate the success of DC's most successful comic, The New Teen Titans (The New Teen Titans: the teen titans (also the new teen titans, the new titans, and the titans)...
[follow hyperlink for more...]) , an editorial decision was made to have most of the regular members leave the team, to be replaced by young unknowns. This move was highly unpopular with readers, who dubbed this period of time the "Justice League Detroit (Detroit: The largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor) " era. Created by Conway and artist Chuck Patton, the team was eventually disbanded by writer J.M. DeMatteis (J.M. DeMatteis: more facts about this subject) and artist Luke McDonnell (Luke McDonnell: more facts about this subject) . The final issue of the original Justice League of America series was #261.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

It was a the darkest period in their history

[thebitterguy]

I'm still preferring it to Full Frontal Mindwipe Action, now with anal rape Dr. Light.

Mind you, that's with 20 years to dull my memory.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm not bothered by the Mindwipe - it's nice to see that iconic characters can make bad judgements by being irrational and emotional, just like us mere mortals.

As for the 'anal' part, that's only your interpretation; all we know for a fact is that he raped her from behind, not that he raped her behind.

Re: "*That*" being?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

And apparently Logan believes they're really dead.

Granted, we've been there before with various Flight members as well...