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Apr. 3rd, 2006 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thebitterguyFromhttp://comicbookresources.com, via Badass:
ALPHA FIGHT
"Alpha Flight" is Marvel's on-again-off-again super hero series created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, and originally launched in their own series by Byrne. That series was probably my favourite Byrne work of all time, and it's one I can regularly return to with much fondness. Marvel, time for an Essential Volume, no?
Anyway, since then, Marvel have regularly disbanded the team, banded them again, killed them, brought them back to life, and put them through all sorts of creative and commercial loops before recently killing them all off again. It's part of strategy that will see a relaunch, the new team and status quo being set up in "Civil War" by Mark Millar. So, what's the new twist that will give Alpha Flight that all important edge? White text for the sensitive amongst you.
The new Alpha Flight series will be manned by American heroes who have moved to Canada as a result of the government legislation enacted in the 'Civil War' megacrossover. It plays off the history of Americans escaping the draft during the Vietnam War, as well as recent declarations by certain people that they'd move to Canada if Bush was re elected (and then not). It's politically observant, satirical, colonialist and intentionally controversial. And leading the team? Captain America, obviously.
You've got to hand it to Millar. That'll set the message boards buzzing. .
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Date: 2006-04-04 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 01:35 am (UTC)It actually sounds pretty cool, but then I'm a big fan of shaking things up and doing it differently. And, besides, you know it's not going to be a permanent thing. Marvel'll rehash the team again before too long.
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Date: 2006-04-04 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 01:44 am (UTC)Or when, in a couple years, Operation: Desert Heroes begins, a story where the heroes go overseas to whoop up on Doctor Doom, who's invading Lotsofoilistan, and the team goes off and ends up rejoining their fellow American heroes, and the team 'Alpha Flight' is unmanned, until a bunch of Canuckislavistanian heroes take up the banner...
Or something.
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Date: 2006-04-04 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 01:50 am (UTC)Me mad.
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Date: 2006-04-04 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 02:06 am (UTC)It was bad enough when a Brit wrote the series adding British parliamentary systems... bad enough when they had the brief run as an Image rip-off...but this?
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Date: 2006-04-04 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 02:33 am (UTC)I wouldn't know, haven't read it. Wasn't even aware of it, to be honest.
I fixated on the 'Image rip-off' and 'Captain America' and came up with 'Heroes Reborn'.
*shudder*
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Date: 2006-04-04 02:13 am (UTC)Someone should tell Rick Mercer...
VERY good idea!
Date: 2006-04-04 02:19 am (UTC)He can compare it to the goings-on at the CBC TV Drama department.
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Date: 2006-04-05 09:04 pm (UTC)Still, it would be nice. Maybe in the fall.
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Date: 2006-04-06 01:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-06 02:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-04 04:00 am (UTC)Whatever happened to that comedy relaunch? At least occasionally that was intentionally funny.
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Date: 2006-04-04 02:14 pm (UTC)I'd be annoyed, but I've already lost all faith in comics, and their writers. :P
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Date: 2006-04-06 03:01 am (UTC)