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Omega Flight

00:34 / 11.04.07

I've read the first issue and liked it* but I dont have as much exposure to comicdom as I should to compare it to anything else . The last comic I collected was Punisher and the last series I read (besides the Invisibles) was the orig. Alpha Flight. So its been a while.

Is anyone reading this? Peoples opinion? Is it any good?

*but it could be because I like the canadian content.

00:42 / 11.04.07

Oeming has a bad habit of fading in the home stretch, so I'm not really expecting much. The fact that the first issue was basically setup didn't help.

OTOH, the story we did get wasn't bad. I'dve liked to have seen more action, tho.

06:17 / 11.04.07

I skimmed it.

Was Sasquatch really going on about "CAAAANNNAAADAAAA!!!! MUST DEFEND!!!!!"

Did I imagine that?

Our Lady Has Left the Building

07:34 / 11.04.07

Are you sure he didn't say "Though I don't make a habit of discussing my sexual preferences with those I fight- I am gay!"?

07:49 / 11.04.07

Maybe he said both. How exciting!

Someone let me know.

09:29 / 11.04.07

We know he's not a clone, tho. Apparently, that's important.

09:33 / 11.04.07

Just so no-one's offended, it's the invoking of warrior patriotism that I find slightly hilarious and not Canada.

Spyder Todd 2008

22:12 / 11.04.07

Was Sasquatch really going on about "CAAAANNNAAADAAAA!!!! MUST DEFEND!!!!!"

Did I imagine that?

Umm... maybe? I don't remember. I thought the issue was alright enough, in an exclusively-set-up-issue sort of sense. But where was Beta Ray Bill? Why do they think I'm buying this? Bill is the only reason, I say. If he's not in issue two I may just stop reading it.

04:33 / 12.04.07

Yuk! I do not like this whole Marvel post-CW thing AT ALL. I want Marvel insanity: talking planets, alternate dimensions, men with gorilla heads. All this police state wankery is getting on my tits. Thank you for listening.

04:35 / 12.04.07

Actually, I like men with gorilla bodies, like than guy in the Headmen who is pals with the man with the shrunken skull (beagle-face?) and the Ruby Tuesday, the chik with the red orb for a noggin.

Now THAT's reality, children. F*ck Tony Stark!

09:47 / 12.04.07

Well, based on the previews for issue #2 (scattered about on the net) Bill's definitely in the issue in human form, so he'll probably transform at some point.

Of course, it also appears that some of Surtur's demons will be in there, which is tricky since, well, their universe was destroyed.

Spyder Todd 2008

14:10 / 12.04.07

Bah! As if universe ever stay destroyed in comic books. I mean, I can think of at least twice that the Marvel Universe was actually destoried, and that's without really trying hard.

14:43 / 12.04.07

Yes, but by the same writer?

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

16:26 / 12.04.07

One thing I notice about this title is that it’s basically a love letter to 80s Marvel isn’t it? As well as being an Alpha Flight spin-off the team includes a character from Simonson’s Thor, a character from Gruenwald’s Captain America and a character from Secret Fracking Wars! All of which means I’m probably destined to buy the whole run of the mini ever if it’s the worst book ever published. Fortunately it’s not nearly as bad as all that. I thought the first issue was a little light and not as entertaining as Oeming’s Thor, and Kolins art wasn’t as nice as it sometimes is but it was enjoyable enough. I’m just hoping we get a Purple girl appearance by the end of the series – since the preview in Civil War set up the Purple Man as a villain for the series we really, really ought to. My adult brain realizes that certain elements of the Mantlo run were pretty much headsick making, but I was about seven at the time and as a result I’m still a sucker for some the weird sub Doom Patrol characters he filled the book with once he’d gotten through killing off most of the original team and turning the rest into fucking elves.

By the way the clone thing probably has something to do with the last Alpha Flight series in which there where multiple copies of the original team running around. Or the Seagle series with the Guardian clone running around. Or you know any of the multiple versions of the core team members of the team that have allowed them to have more cumulative deaths and resurrections as a team than the X-Men.

19:47 / 12.04.07

I saw a Beta-Ray Bill action figure at Asda yesterday. It came with a bit of MODOK. If you buy all the other figures in the same series, you can build your own MODOK! How cool is that?

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

13:35 / 15.04.07

Do you know what it is that really gets me about that? The fact that it's Asda. I mean build your own MODOK parts in Forbidden Planet wouldn't be anything all that special, but having MODOK parts available in a local supermarket - that's absurdly cool......... maybe soon the world will be like the inside of my head..........

13:56 / 15.04.07

Semi-serious question:

How many of you are more interested in the Beta Ray Bill bits of this mini than the Alpha Flight bits? Because I've noticed a few complaints elsewhere that Bill didn't show in the first issue.

Shiny: Well Over Thirty

14:11 / 15.04.07

I'm guessing we've seen the set-up for his appearance though. Since Sasquatch just got beaten by a bunch of Thor villains I'm guessing Bill will show up on their trail. With Thor currently out of the picture I imagine Bill will have inherited his enemies.

Spyder Todd 2008

14:16 / 15.04.07

Well, I don't really have a problem with them, but I'm not all that partial to Alpha Flight. They're Canada's super team, which is fine and all, but I've never had any emotional investment in any of them, except for maybe the Hudson's, what with Wolverine's origin and all. And they're dead now.

Bill and to a lesser extent Arachne are what sold this book to me. And while I enjoyed all the "fucking Americans sending all their problems over to us" stuff in the first issue, those are the characters I most what to see do stuff.