So I have often said that Bill Mantlo did some VERY serious damage to ALPHA FLIGHT. And I stick by it. His writing in ALPHA FLIGHT I strongly disliked.
But as I mentioned in another thread, I have been collecting older comics, older titles - one of them which I have been getting is ROM, which Bill wrote.
Now I have no idea what happened between ROM and ALPHA FLIGHT, because I find his ROM to be pretty good. (There's some very corny elements which I didn't care for - and it could be because my run starts with #21 and up, so I am currently missing the first 20 issues). But that love circle between Rom, Brandy and Brandy's fiance (whose name slips my mind) is extremely corny (I am on issue #35 right now). But other than that - his stories always seemed very fun and interesting. He even wrote plenty of guest stars (X-MEN, BROTHERHOOD, SHANG CHI, NAMOR, etc - and I know future issues have ALPHA FLIGHT).
So I am puzzled how his ROM is, for the most part, quite entertaining - while his ALPHA FLIGHT just never sat well with me.