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I know I did!

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Well, the other Canadian reader wasn't so enthusiastic!

Joking aside, reactions were, to put it mildly, mixed. Many were thrilled to have a Canadian superhero group "hit the big time" (ie, Marvel), as you might expect. But, alas, many also expected the series to be a textbook about Canada. The first issue, which showed the vast, empty wastelands of the northern tundra, particularly infuriated some. "We have CITIES in Canada, too, you know!" Yes, yes you do. But it didn't seem likely that Tundra would be raised in the middle of Toronto or Winnipeg or Vancouver. . .

The NHL has decided that it is (again)!

Seeing Pierre Elliot Trudeau in a 'Yankee' comic book was quite freaky for this reader <g>. Having Montreal (where I lived) mentioned was also extremely cool.

I'd vote Mac's death scene in the Top Ten of most dramatic and memorable scenes in comics!

When we brought Jean Grey back, we did it in a way that was internally logical -- altho many fans objected to it, it did not, in fact, contradict anything. It was a "reveal" more than a retcon. But the way Mac came back required the readers to ignore the actual circumstances of his death. I'd already played that card in his fake resurrection, engineered by Delphine Courtney, and apparently THAT was what later writers looked at, not the actual death scene.