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Steven Myers
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Puck is actuallly the best character in Alpha Flight at this point. I think it shows that he was made to be here, rather than made to be a guest star. This is the issue when I really thought Alpha Flight would make it! Read this one over and over!
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Martin Redmond
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It's kind of annoying when they cure certain conditions because ugly characters in super hero comics add variety and they're so rare. It's like the industry is dead set on some unspoken homogenization goal.
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Martin Redmond
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Also, I really liked the strategic use of environment in this issue, like the previous one. When Puck uses the L shaped shelving unit to retreat from view.
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Joel Tesch
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I was always curious about the way his ears were drawn. Was that a manifestation of his dwarfism? I never was sure, and sometimes thought that perhaps his ears were sort of "boxed in." After all, Judd was a rough and tumble guy and surely had seen many a scrap.
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I loved that detail...Puck has a cauliflower ear (like many wrestlers)!
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Ryan Maxwell
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His nose is flattened out pretty good, too!
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Greg Kirkman
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Great stories. Puck (JB's Puck, at least) still has so much untapped potential, but I was pleased to see him appear in a more prominent position in AF after Guardian's death.
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John Harris
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This is easily one of my favorite issues. I really thought Puck as written by John Byrne had the potential to be a very special character in the Marvel Universe. Unfortunately things veered wildly of the track when other creators took over. it's been said before but it bears saying again that rarely has a great group of characters become soooo thoroughly ruined after the original creator left as Alpha Flight did. Damn shame.
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Jeremy Boyd
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Puck is by far one of the most original and interesting characters JB ever
created (imo).
Love him.
I've said it before here but this issue shows how interesting a solo series
with Puck could be -- he could do straight crime stories like this, as well as
travel to exotic locations like the Savage Land and battle amazing sci-fi
villains like the Master Of The World as well as Ras Al Ghul type characters
out of pulp stories like Doc Savage...
Puck rules.
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Pedro Cruz
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What a perfect comic! JB managed to capture and channel the spirit of the very early Lee/Kirby/Ditko marvel comics (even in those inks) in both stories while avoiding being nostalgeous. Plus, you got two stories in a single issue! Also, Puck had got to be the closest to an original superhero to come in a loooong time.
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John Byrne
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…nostalgeous…
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Another one for the JBF lexicon of Words that Don't Exist, But Should!
nostalgeous noun
a particularly cloying form of nostalgia
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Ted Pugliese
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FYI
One of my best friends growing up was an achon Dwarf. So was his mother. I learned the term from JB here and later she was impressed that I knew it.
Neither one of them ever complained about pain, though, and he was the tallest achon dwarf I or he has ever seen. He even had surgery to straighten his legs. It gave him another inch. I stayed with him during his recovery, just before I left to join the Army. We always joked that the hormones only helped him grow elsewhere, and his nickname was Stiff.
He is still in Florida and currently works for Disney.
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Wallace Sellars
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I agree with what a few others have said; Puck was a great character!
Oh, and I'm pro-thought balloon.
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