I love the idea of skipping anything possible that doesn't push the story forward.  IE: no 6 panels of driving, merging battle with thought balloons (I have to deal with homework after I beat Doc Ock, and get the meds for Aunt May, and I'm late for my date, ouch that metal arm hurt - am I the only one who hears the voice from the '67 series for Peter when I picture him talking?).

My rambling comments show why I could never write comics - every issue would be a 100 page mess.

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And here's what I hadn't considered -- Heather is still the happily married Heather acting just as the happily married Heather would act. 

I find myself missing the Heather that led the team.

Kill him again, JB.

But then I thought that that was more rpg-like thinking and not something I’d expect Professor X to do in a comic. 

But it does make a lot of sense for Alpha Flight (since they’re a government organization). But it never occurred to me that Shaman could obviously do the backups and restores of memories. 

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I’ve never wanted to be a moderator here more than right now. 

A Shaman is not only a holy man and a healer, but also the keeper of his tribe's oral histories and mythologies. I've read tales of heroism are sometimes celebrated by poem and song. 

I'm thinking Michael Twoyoungmen archiving his team-mates histories in his medicine bag is an indication of how much respect he has for the members of Alpha Flight. 

Maybe their histories become songs sung on a cold winter's night around a roaring campfire. 

How would it affect a man to hear the song of his own life?

Great, great page.

On the current storyline, man this is fun. Going to be a journey seeing just what data Doctor Twoyoungmen restores to Logan’s hard drive…

Note how the balloon placement guides the reader from panel to panel. Good placement makes a big (but often subtle) difference in the reading experience, and bad placement can wreck a page. Mac's balloon reply to Shaman is a great example of how to do this right.