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Ryan Maxwell
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Coming in two weeks...

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 -- and Box exploded with a nuclear blast, killing all of Alpha Flight, forever.

The end.



...still brings tear to my eye.



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What can I say that so many of us have been saying for the last several months?  Alpha Flight has always been my favorite comic, and I can't imagine that will ever change.  The characters clicked with me from the beginning, and I love them all.  It's a damn shame this poor little book never made it past issue 28...

John, my thanks for sticking with AF for as long as you did, I know it wasn't the most enjoyable experience for you.  Regardless of how you felt, we all know you still put every effort into making the best out of it.

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I like that better, Steven. A lot better...
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wow. Powerful issue.

And I had forgotten that this had to have the Beyonder trowelled in to it. Sorry for that, JB.

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I reread this run every so often.  Whenever I get to this last issue, I think of one thing.  What if JB could do something like this for real...

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If I had any Photoshop skills, I'd replace Jen with Box, the banner with AF's, put a 29 in there...
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Who but Jim Shooter would create a character who was a living Deus ex
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and then force everybody else to use him?

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If I had a choice of superpowers, Lionel Jeffries' would be on my list.

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Michael Arndt
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Sorry to see JB leave this title. Really loved it. Still, I was very excited about him going to the Hulk. As long as he was doing two issues a month I was happy.

As for AF#28 I thought it was terrific. Part of me wishes we could have seen more flashbacks of Omega Flight's origins and Jim Hudson gathering them. I always wondered how they ended up in Gamma Flight.

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I love how this switch in creative teams took place.  I wonder if AF would've detiriorted as much as it did if Denny O'Neil had stayed on as the editor after JB left?

Question for JB: Was Walter always doomed once you decided Sasquatch was actually a Great Beast?  Or were you going to keep in him the Box robot for awhile?

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