Sasquatch would not have died.
Snowbird would not have died.
Puck would not have a spirit in him.
Alpha Flight wouldn't have been replaced by a "B" Squad.
The downside, there would have been no Goblyn - who I actually liked (her and Laura). Though not enough to have replaced the rest of Alpha Flight.
I truly think that if he had remained on the book - though he claimed he didn't enjoy it - that the book would have done exceptionally well.
Aurora/Jeanne-Marie, Northstar/Jean-Paul, and Talisman/Elizabeth suffered "psychic death" by Somon in AF (vol. 1) # 24; Walter helped save them all.
I didn't know there was another character named "Equinox" other than the Marvel one. It's too bad that nobody is really doing anything with characters...new or old...that I have a real interest in. Got any pictures of the DC character you can post?
I find Alpha Flight volume 1 #s 1 through 28 to be more memorable than a lot of the other, more celebrated work. What constitutes "drama" in a comic-book is something I still wonder about to this day: a lot of the vulnerability of the original character's definitely lends itself to life-or-death drama. What seems to separate what is believable and what isn't believable is the amount of effort put into the plausibility of the characterizations, motivations, and plot: some creators put some thought and effort into the plausibility, some did not.
Once upon a time, they exploded from the pages of The X-Men. For a moment, they were "Canada's answer to The Avengers."
They were ALPHA FLIGHT....
...once upon a time.
Who is the Marvel one?
(But I should warn you, if they're Alpha-Related, I'm gonna be most embarrassed.)
I find Byrne's work on AF and X-Men to feel far more real to me than anybody's work on the titles before or since. (Okay, there's no 'before' on AF.) It's more fun and natural than... well, most other comics period. Than any of the new age of 'realism' we've got to deal with, than any of that dark garbage that people rave about so much.
Uh... That isn't to say I think everything he's ever done is great, or that he's the only one doing any good work out there. I've enjoyed a lot of other things, a lot of them more than his X-Men, some of them almost as much as his Alpha.
~ Le Messor
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
~ George Washington, letter of instruction to the Virginia Regiments
I thought I was the only one who felt this way. Back in the early 2000's it was particularly annoying whenever I wished the writing of the 70's and 80's would return to have posters suggest kiddie comics may be more my speed, only to then have them swoon over supposed "mature" comics that read like teen fanfic. Having swearing and sex in a book may make it mature reading, but not necessarily mature writing.
Byrne (and a few other writers of the time), however, was able to present stories that conformed to the comics code, but still included adult situations that dealt with sensitive, deep topics. They were good reading that conveyed complex ideas that weren't dumbed down to make it past the code. In fact the code forced the writers to up their game in my opinion.
Thanks! Marvel has a bit of a Frankie Raye thing going; DC is kinda Wasp-ish.
I think we're in a small but growing minority. I do prefer comics under the Code. These days, I keep reading writers who want to make the world more cynical, meaner, and nastier. If I got to speak to them, I'd say 'Congratulations! As far as I'm concerned, it's working. Every time I hear your name, I get cynical, mean, and nasty.'
~ Le Messor
"Do first what you dread the most."
~ Joel Freeman