It's made me realise how much I loved the dynamic of the book itself -although I probably didn't appreciate it at the time. I'm talking about the fact that our heroes rarely featured as a team, yet as readers we didn't miss out. We were instead given stories where individual characters were allowed to blossom away from the constraints of the group (Snowbird was never my favourite member of the team, but I yearned for more of her after #6!).

For me, looking back, this was the perfect way to handle a team book, and I wish other titles had been handled this way.  

How time flies!!

I want to visit the universe where JB did 100 issues of Alpha Flight.

Or at least a 5-year, 60 issue run. 

Or just 12-15 more issues... 

(Ah... the wish fulfillment bargaining with the universe ever continues...)

  I firmly believe they were treated this way and summarily dismantled as a "snub" to their shaking up of the hierarchy of things. I found that team more compelling than the X-Men while JB was in charge and could see them stalemate the Avengers. 

Those were some really, really good days. I too wish JB stayed on longer, much longer...

I'm aware of Marvel's control over characters created under their banner. Having said that, I would be majorly pissed off if any characters that I created were as badly mismanaged as Alpha Flight.

 It certainly felt that way to me JB... In retrospect, the book went off the rails and became unrecognizable. I would love to have known what you meant when you indicated weeks ago that you had some kind of plan/path for Walter to have made it back. I wonder what would have become of that team had you stayed longer. Redux anyone?