Should Alpha Flight Return to the Marvel Universe ?

[CMBMOOL]

What I mean is that should the remaining members of Alpha Flight, along with Wolverine, get together to find peace within themselves and find closuer over the lost of their teammates ?

[Imraith Nimphais]

If THAT is wot you meant...then my answer is a resounding "Hell NO"!!!...(I likes him lots, but I DO NOT need to see Wolvie in ANOTHER book...seriously)however...should (the ORIGINAL) Alpha Flight find their way back into the MU...Oh YESYESYES!!!!...(though it may be a trifle bit difficult...should they decide to not go with the "they're back 2gether again...It's MAGIC" route.)...ah, false hope...you fickle, damnable mistress.

[jarrod]

Who's still alive from AF?

I think the Beaubiers would be GREAT in X-Force personally.

[escapegoat]

There's already an easy loophole for bringing Alpha Flight back to the Marvel U set up by Lobdell in the last issue of the third series. I just wish someone would go ahead and use it to bring the "deceased" members back.

[Congo Jack]

Originally Posted by escapegoat

There's already an easy loophole for bringing Alpha Flight back to the Marvel U set up by Lobdell in the last issue of the third series. I just wish someone would go ahead and use it to bring the "deceased" members back.

I avoided this series like the plague, but I'm not above using it to get the real Alpha Flight back; so what's the loophole?

[eurazn]

Originally Posted by jarrod

Who's still alive from AF?

I think the Beaubiers would be GREAT in X-Force personally.

I think they'd be better suited to Uncanny. Jean-Paul's terrorist above-the-law days are behind him.

As for the question at hand, I guess they could do it in a mini, sans Wolverine.

[mattbib]

Originally Posted by Congo Jack

I avoided this series like the plague, but I'm not above using it to get the real Alpha Flight back; so what's the loophole?

As at the end of the series there were two versions of Guardian, Heather Hudson, Snowbird, Shaman, Northstar, Aurora and Puck in the current timeline. The current versions of the Guardian, Vindicator, Snowbird, Shaman and Puck (as well as Earthmover) were in space as of Alpha Flight#6.

[drwho]

I just say make the old team members that died skrulls and go back to the basics. Hell maybe even put wolverine on the team.

Puck
Heather Hudson
Mounty guy with the flying Horse
Sasquatch
Snowbird
Box
Wolverine
Shaman
North Star
Aurora

[escapegoat]

Originally Posted by Congo Jack

I avoided this series like the plague, but I'm not above using it to get the real Alpha Flight back; so what's the loophole?

Halfway through the 3rd series, members from the original team (Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman, and Puck) had gone to the Plodex homeworld to return a clutch of Plodex eggs. However, in the last storyarc, an accident brings temporal copies of most of the original Alpha Flight - from a time before Hudson's first "death" - to the present. When this happened, there was no indication given that this temporal version had actually replaced the current members that went into space.

[Push You Down]

Yeah sure.. why not....

No reasn to give them a series though..

[Eye in the Sky]

I would say yes they should but not in the way you have laid out. Having Northstar and Aurora on the team would be a pick plus. What you need to do is find a writer who can inject the same kind of feelings that Captain Britain and MI 13 holds. I am not British but reading his book you get this huge burst of pride when Captain Britain talks about his country. You need that from an Alpha Flight book. Depending on who is alive and who is avaible I would structure a team much like Captain Britain and MI13. Bring characters from all over Canada, insert a feeling of pride/patriotism from a qualified writer and a very steady, talented artist.

[jarrod]

Originally Posted by eurazn

I think they'd be better suited to Uncanny. Jean-Paul's terrorist above-the-law days are behind him.

As for the question at hand, I guess they could do it in a mini, sans Wolverine.

I know Carey did the insta-fix, but I'd still like to see JP dealing with his Hand conditioning on some level. Putting him on a covert wetworks squad taking orders from Wolverine (the man who literally killed him) is pretty ripe with possibility. I actually would really like to see Betsy on the team with him too, given their similar experiences...

JM I don't really care much about though, she can pass.

[marvell2100]

The original AF would be good to see. I don't think that Wolverine is needed on this team however.

[mattbib]

Originally Posted by jarrod

Who's still alive from AF?

Aurora
Northstar
Sasquatch
Marrina (albeit comatose in the ruins of one of the Master of the World's lairs)
Talisman
Madison Jeffries
Diamond Lil
Windshear (depowered)
Wildchild
Flex (depowered)
Manbot (status unknown)
Murmur (status unknown)
Radius (depowered)
Ghost Girl (status unknown)
Yukon Jack (mentally incapable)
Snowbird (joined Hercules' God Squad, but this may have been the temporal copy)
And of course Mannikin, Persuasion, Goblyn, Pathway, Withfire and Feedback, but who knows what happened to any of them.

Again, it's still not confirmed whether it was the originals or the temporal copies of Guardian, Puck, Shaman and Vindicator that were killed by the Collective.

If it was the originals who died, when did they return from the Plodex world and then where did the temporal copies go? And what became of James and Heather's baby? And what happend to Earthmover after they got back?

If it was the temporal copies who died, then the originals may still be in space, but what became of the temporal copies of Aurora and Northstar?

[Congo Jack]

Thanks for the answers earlier, guys.

For a new ALPHA FLIGHT series, you use the temporal copies as an excuse to construct a team that is the same as when John Byrne left the book, and pretend that everything that happened after Byrne didn't happen. Since Byrne himself would refuse to do it, hire Fred Van Lante and Phil Jiminez as they are both big fans of the characters and series and not to mention are talented individuals in their own right. You've got a book that would probably make the top 30 every month.

Ok, go do this, Marvel....