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Wallace Sellars
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Ryan Maxwell
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Not to knock FF in any way, but Alpha Flight will beat any other book in my opinion. My all time favorite.
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Bruce Buchanan
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I'll agree that Alpha Flight really was only good when JB was on the book. But I still prefer JB's run on Fantastic Four - these are classic characters we love and JB took them to unprecedented heights.
As for yesterday's toss-up (JB's FF vs. JB's X-Men), it's a...well, a toss-up.
But I'll give the slight edge to the X-Men run. Claremont and Byrne had something magical during that run.
In fact, I think the series of issues starting with the Proteus saga (#125, I think), moving into the Hellfire Club storyline and ending with the Dark Phoenix epic (#137) may well be the best consecutive run on any monthly comic book ever.
For baseball fans, it's the comics equivalent of the Joe DiMaggio hitting streak. You really have to read them consecutively to grasp how truly great they are - and how tough it must've been for these guys to maintain that excellence month after month.
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Tony O'Farrell
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I'm definitely going with FF again. I didn't follow Alpha Flight after Byrne left so I never really got to know the characters all that well. However, Alpha Flight was some of Byrne's finest work artistically.
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Andrew Hess
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Fantastic Four, simply because of the scope of the stories, both because of
their history within comics/Marvel Universe and the cosmic scale.
I do love Alpha Flight, tho.
And this thought just came to me: they seem to be a precursor to JB's later
Next Men in that it is a story that is kind of off to the side and telling it's
own story. Sure there were cross-overs/team-ups/whatever, but during JB's
run the comic wasn't over-run by "how is this team affected by everything
else going on in Marvel."
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Brian Tait
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JB's Fantastic Four or JB's Alpha Flight?
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As a Canadian, I got a kick out of Alpha Flight taking place in this country, but the book was never the same after JB left.
But I'll still pick Fantastic Four.
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Aaron Smith
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Eric Freed
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ALPHA FLIGHT. I've really had an emotional connection with JB's run on this book and the characters at different times over the years. My grandfather, who passed away about 20 years ago, had never read comic books, but I remember sharing an issue of AF featuring Roger Bochs with him when I was a teenager. My grandfather was handicapped and in a wheelchair (from polio, which he had his entire life, and, more recently, a stroke, which paralyzed his right side), and I think he was impressed that there was this handicapped character in a comic book. Though I was always close to my grandfather, I believe this was one of those true bonding experiences.
Also, a few years ago, I shared issues #12 & 13 with my wife, and it prompted us to discuss what it must be like to lose a spouse. Ironically, my wife died suddenly about two months after this discussion. The issues dealing with Heather's grief and mourning mirrored my own. I believe JB did some of his best and most powerful writing on this series, and I sincerely believe these issues have helped me in my on-going recovery. Thanks again, JB.
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Ted Pugliese
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TODAY'S TOSS-UP (1/11):
JB's Hulk or JB's Thing?
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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God...another torturing question....
JB's Thing!!!
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Kevin Hagerman
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The Thing by a country mile. No one has ever drawn The Thing better than JB. It's what he does best.
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Soren Hjortkær
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The Thing....
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