Posted: 01 August 2016 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | 11
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...Greg Kirkman is a wizard.+++++++++
Selena Gomez is a wizard. This is just stuff I noticed when I was, like, 12.
Well, except for the Northstar thing. That went over my young head!
Anyway, I really should give ALPHA FLIGHT a re-read. It was a Big Deal book during my prime reading years...which came about a decade after the original run. I was seeking out AF in back issue bins whilst dealing with such dreck as the Clone Saga and other 90s-era stunts.
If I recall correctly, I believe I came to know AF by way of Guardian's entry in the OHOTMU Book of The Dead. And, I think # 12 was the very first issue I found. It, er, blew me away, and remains one of my all-time-favorite comic books. I quickly began seeking out the rest of the run, after that. Along with some of the post-JB stories, which didn't exactly tickle my fancy.
Amazingly, before completing my collection of JB's run, I snagged one of the series' later issues, which revealed how Guardian had survived--the whole bit with the aliens and Mac becoming a cyborg. Even as a kid, I thought it was utter poppycock, and that they were dumping on a great story in the most lamebrained way possible.
Not too long after, I picked up AF # 25-28, and had a big "Ah-ha!" moment. I thought that JB's fake Guardian resurrection was a ****ing brilliant twist of the knife, and was simultaneously appalled that subsequent creative teams had turned around and made it "real". Sigh.
For my money, Guardian's death is still one of the very best and most memorable/horrifying in all of comics, and his false resurrection of of the most brilliant twists on the now-cliche of comic book resurrections. Right up there with Gerry Conway taking Stan Lee's order to bring back Gwen Stacy and instead telling a story about the Jackal using Gwen's clone as a psychological weapon against Spider-Man.
Edited by Greg Kirkman on 01 August 2016 at 10:15pm
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