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Felicity Walker
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Glad to hear that! You’ve said elsewhere that Alpha Flight wasn’t as much fun to work on as we fans think it was based on how much we like it.
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| REALLY surprised by how many of you fell for my
ruse! I guess, as Glen notes above, you were just so happy to have Guardian “back” you were willing to overlook the Peterbilt sized holes in his story. |
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Exactly. Wait, what Peterbilt sized holes? Just the fact that we saw Guardian’s burning body in #12, or were there further mistakes in his Quwrlln story?
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*(checks the internet)* Oh, I see.
By the way, how do you pronounce “Quwrlln”? As I read the story, in my head I hear it as “kur-len” but I want to hear it as “kwa-wer-len.”
Edited by Felicity Walker on 25 March 2008 at 5:50pm
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Michael Everall
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Caliber was a cool 'throw-away' sort of villain. It made me feel like Alpha Flight had there own Rogue's Gallery.
I too was fooled.
Edited by Michael Everall on 25 March 2008 at 7:40pm
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Caleb M. Edmond
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JB,
I always though it was "cool" that the entire team wasn't officially together
until well into the series, But after re-reading the series, I have to ask:
Was Marrina still officially part of the team at this point?
And if so, was it you're plan not to have them all together at one time?
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Joel Tesch
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One of my favorite aspects of Alpha was the way JB changed the standard format of a "team" book. Alpha only seemed to get together as a group once a year, with the rest being solo or duo stories.
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Michael Arndt
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I really enjoyed the duo stories. Always wanted to see a Shaman and Aurora or Northstar team up or a Sasquatch and Puck team up. I kind of liked the idea of the group getting together as a whole once a year.
Edited by Michael Arndt on 25 March 2008 at 8:16pm
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John Harris
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J.B.
Was the description of the main character Minner Burris from the Robert Silverberg's Thorns the science fiction novel that influenced you?
Edited by John Harris on 26 March 2008 at 2:46pm
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Michael Everall
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The divided team aspect also gives a sense of the isolation that people feel living in the northern parts. Partly due to the long, cold winters that tend to keep us inside. It is also realistic that a team which has to cover all of Canada by themselves, would probably split up most of time.
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Chris Durnell
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One thing JB's format of "few team battles" did was allow faster character development than normal in a team book. The most prominent Avengers had solo books, so character development wasn't need for them. And characters only in the team book tended to concentrate on development for one character (like how Wonder Man's character development dominated the 150-180 issues). Because the book had gone on a while, many of the members had earlier turns, so everyone was developed. AF members, were still too young to have set personas that fans recognized, so the solo stories allowed fans to know them intimately.
And as Michael noted, the divided team gave sense to the huge geographic scope they covered. Canada was a "character" in the book to an extent "the USA" never was in the Avengers. Canada - so exotic!
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Wallace Sellars
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I also enjoyed the way individual (or small groups of) Alphans appeared in most issues, and complete gatherings were reserved for larger threats.
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Juan Jose Colin Arciniega
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I was fooled too at the moment...the ruse did not last long!
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Aaron Smith
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I remember watching Menagerie and (oh crap, I can't recall the title --) the episode your Romulans comic comes from (Balance of Terror?) and instantly thinking --- "holy cow! That line is from Alpha Flight #25 and that line is from Man of Steel #4"
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I don't have a copy of Man of steel # 4 right now. What line is that?
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Felicity Walker
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I’ve seen the large geographical size of Canada blamed for an alleged lack of unity in Canadian science fiction fandom. People focus on what they can do in their own city; everywhere else is just too far away. This might seem intuitively obvious and perfectly natural, except that it doesn’t seem to be the case in other countries. We have the Canadian Unity Fan Fund, which pays for one fan per year to travel to a convention in another Canadian city and file a report, but by and large we’re too tired, broke, and busy to worry about the problem.
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