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A New Beginning

Ben

Published on 01-25-2010 09:36 PM Number of Views: 3025

Welcome to the new AlphaFlight.net.

Over the years this website has taken many forms, and undergone significant evolution. It all started out as a teen-aged boy making a his first website about his favorite comic book character: Sasquatch. Then more characters got featured as it evoled into "The Alpha Flight Character Database". Later Alpha Zone was born, bringing in more diverse information, until it morphed in AlphaFlight.net.
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Northstar in New Mutants #15

rplass

Published on 06-28-2010 02:20 AM Number of Views: 2465

You can see him flying around rebuilding Utopia on the preview page here Marvel is proud to present your first look at Fall of the New Mutants starting in New Mutants #15, from acclaimed writer Zeb Wells and fan-favorite artist Leonard Kirk! After the events of Second Coming, the New Mutants are regrouping and healing when disaster strikes yet again! While the New Mutants try and put themselves back together, a secret military group is looking for Illyana Rasputin and they won’t let the New Mutants stand in their way! NEW MUTANTS #15 (MAY100643) NEW MUTANTS #15 ADAMS VARIANT (MAY108046) Written by ZEB WELLS Penciled by LEONARD KIRK Cover by DAVE WILKINS Variant Cover by ARTHUR ADAMS Rated T+ …$2.99 FOC – 7/1/10, On-Sale – 7/21/10 ...

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Blind Science #1 Teaser - Madison Jeffries

MistressMerr

Published on 05-25-2010 03:46 PM Number of Views: 2104

There's a little two-page preview of the X-Club's upcoming mini and a short interview with the writer, Simon Spurrier, at Marvel.com I was already looking forward to this a lot, but this just has me even more excited, I can't wait to see his take on the characters after reading this. Here's the part that pertains to MadJeff: "Madison Jeffries couldn't be more different. He's been through a lot of nasty stuff too, but it's left him kind of fuzzy, kind of dissociated from reality a couple of notches. Which isn't to say he doesn't engage with the events around him, just that you sort of get the impression he's just going with the flow, letting his mind wander at every opportunity. He's so immersed in the world his particular mutant power creates-this universe of intuitive ...

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State of the Heart (yep, another opinion piece)

Le Messor

Published on 04-27-2010 08:55 PM Number of Views: 1206

There's something been bugging me lately about modern comics, and I think I've finally worked out what it is. It came up partly because of the upcoming The Last Airbender movie, directed by M. Night Shyamalan. I've enjoyed most of his movies, but the tone and pacing are polar opposites to the cartoon. Then somebody asked me to lend him recent DC or Marvel comics so he could get into them. The most recent thing I could lend him that was good enough was Young Avengers (he'd already read Runaways). I think we've all noticed that comics follow the vagaries of fashion, same as anything else. The current fashion is ultra-realism; in comic book movies, I think the peak is The Dark Knight. The thing these trends do is abuse the trope. It could be good once, on one thing, but they shove it on everything, until you're sick of it. Even though the realism one is doing the same, I'm still behind it. ...

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A Reason For Alpha Flight

Flightpath07

Published on 04-23-2010 03:47 PM Number of Views: 14957

There has been plenty of talk on this site lately (actually, for the last few years) that revolves around various discussions about what reason can we come up with for having an Alpha Flight team again, a reason that would be good enough to (a) cause Marvel to believe it would sell as a series, and (b) make sense in that Marvel seems to feel that previous AFs have lost readers due to something new being needed. Many people here have suggested ideas. Some new ideas, some not-so-new. Many of us believed that John Byrne had it right, or did it best, when it comes to AF. So, many times suggestions came up in regards to how JB wrote AF in the beginning, how they were a team made up of individuals who did not always get along, and showing that individual stories could be told in a team book. ...

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Alpha Flight: What needs to be done (opinion piece)

DancingDevil

Published on 04-13-2010 10:37 AM Number of Views: 2748

We all know that Alpha Flight has been given a bad rap the last several years. Regardless of whether you believe that Marvel is intentionally trying to wipe them all out, it cannot be denied that Canada's most notable super-humans have had it rough. They are treated as a joke, even by former members of the team (Ex, Northstar: "That's the most pathetic thing I've ever heard, and I was with Alpha Flight"). Whether it's having the entire active roster wiped out by the Collective, being stamped out during Necrosha, the falling apart of Omega Flight shortly after its formation (In Mighty Avengers. I mean, how many people are even on that team now that Pointer and Walker are gone? Three, four if you count Agent Brown?), or just fading into the realm of neglect and obscurity. ...

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Summary - Northstar #1

DelBubs

Published on 04-08-2010 07:21 PM

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The following issue summary was written by Robert Diehl as a part of Chronology.Net. This information is not to be reproduced without permission of the author. Issue: Northstar 1 Date: Apr-94 Story: Fast and Loose! (22 pages) Feature Characters: Jean-Paul Beaubier (Northstar) Regular Characters: Guest Stars: Heather McNeil Hudson (Guardian II) Villains: Gen. Jeremy Clarke and Weapon P.R.I.M.E.: Double Trouble, Tigerstryke (Mitchell), Yeti, Killspree; Arcade ...