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I am a bad Canadian boy. Instead of reading Alpha and the other Flight teams, I was engrossed in Batman and Captain America adventures growing up. So, I have no connection or nostalgia for these Canuck X-Men/Avengers. Instead this volume of stories had me giggling at the Great White North stereotypes, hilarious dialogue, and descriptions.

In terms of Sasquatch, he is a Thing/Hulk super-strong being. Northstar and Aurora are two too-tiresome, constantly bickering and whining Quebecois siblings. One cannot help but speculate that they were deliberate avatars for their home province. Snowbird is interesting, resembling Storm but with creatures. Shaman is a terrible nod to Indigenous folk and seemed more of a First Nation character from the U.S. than the Cree or Blackfoot.

Guardian goes through some name changes - think of him as Ironman. Then we have Puck and Marrina. Puck astounds me. Ridiculous characters abound in both Marvel and DC universes but Puck is right up there. He tends to add “eh” to the end of sentences far too frequently. The fact that he began as bouncer in a Toronto pub is too funny. Marrina is a throwaway.

Back to Quebec characters. Sasquatch refers to Aurora as a “French pastry”. The me-too movement is not in evidence. The French “spoken” is way more France-French than Québécois. Northstar has a complex history. He was separated from his twin early in life, joined a militant separatist organization (he renounces terrorism), became an Olympic skiing great, cared for a baby with HIV, and was the first superhero to come out ... and have a same-sex wedding!

Along the way we meet Elder Trudeau and learn Wolverine is truly Canadian and a Canadian project. Those two bits entertain. Unfortunately, the majority of adventures involve something old and menacing buried under northern Canadian soil. It gets repetitive.

Luckily, the chuckles are in steady supply with the dialogue and descriptors like “Montreal, the gleaming gemstone in Quebec’s crown” and “Manitoba, Canada’s most eastern prairie province”! Having hailed from Manitoba, I still laugh at that unique differentiator. If you come from Manitoba, you know it is full of spirited energy.

There has been talk of an Alpha Flight movie. I hope it takes place in the ‘80’s so it can be highly stereotypical and inappropriate.


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Alpha Flight Classic Vol 1 Uncanny XMen v 1 John Byrne Books Reviews

Alpha Flight was one of John Byrne's creations that people talk so little about. A team that started in the pages of Uncany X-Men to having the first of serveal series feautring this unique team in superher comics at the time this book was published. This trade collects the first eight issues of this 80's series and it sets sometime after their meeting the x-men in the canadian moutains. Their government shut down the team and forces them to live their lives and eventually come back together. A great read if you wanna get to know this team or have read this back in the day and wanna look back, this book is for you,
I had only read a few of John Byrne's Alpha Flight as a kid so I was not totally in tune with the groups early adventures or individual character origins so this book totally took me by surprise, but that is not a bad thing.

I never looked at AF as Canadian X-Men rip offs and I think the fact that their rogues gallery consisted more of Gods instead of superpowered thugs or maniacal mutants made their adventures more interesting than the X-Men.

Bill Mantlo's run on AF pretty much dominated my early teenage years and was basically a good run, but John Byrne created the team, so I had to go back and discover the origin of the magic of Alpha Flight and Marvel made all possible by creating the Alpha Flight Classic Series. The format of this book is great. The coloring is good and although they were originally published in the 80's, the dialogue is not cheezy, which made this book a great read.

I also own volumes 2 and 3 and if Marvel decides to republish the stories beyond John Byrne's phenomenal run I will be there.
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I've been reading comics for probably 40 years now and John Byrne was one of my all time favorite artists. His work on X-MEN and The Fantastic Four are also very good. I always wanted this graphic novel to complete my Alpha Flight collection but it was too expensive. had sent me a $5 credit to use on ebooks so when I saw that I could get this book for only $2.50 I had to get it. I still prefer to read comics in regular book form but digital comics are great also because you can enlarge the pages and see the artwork in greater detail. This book is a really great story and also has origin stories for each character. I also recommend picking up volumes 2 & 3 of Alpha Flight to get the complete John Byrne run of the series.
John Byrne ranked as one of the leading writers and artists in the Marvel bullpen back in the 1980s and the first volume of “Alpha Flight Classic” has his fingerprints all over it. Byrne fleshes out some, at best, minor characters from the X-Men comics and makes them Canada’s premier superhero team. While the art is classic Byrne, the story and characters show some growing pains. Simply put, there is nothing close to a protagonist and the team simply fails to jell since the characters often spend more time away from each other than together. To his credit, Byrne showcases the origins of the various characters in solo stories and that helps fill in the missing pieces. For the most part, these comics hold up well after more than three decades but there are some slow spots that might frustrate readers who don’t feel much of a connection to Alpha Flight and its, admittedly, obscure members. Recommended.
I am a bad Canadian boy. Instead of reading Alpha and the other Flight teams, I was engrossed in Batman and Captain America adventures growing up. So, I have no connection or nostalgia for these Canuck X-Men/Avengers. Instead this volume of stories had me giggling at the Great White North stereotypes, hilarious dialogue, and descriptions.

In terms of Sasquatch, he is a Thing/Hulk super-strong being. Northstar and Aurora are two too-tiresome, constantly bickering and whining Quebecois siblings. One cannot help but speculate that they were deliberate avatars for their home province. Snowbird is interesting, resembling Storm but with creatures. Shaman is a terrible nod to Indigenous folk and seemed more of a First Nation character from the U.S. than the Cree or Blackfoot.

Guardian goes through some name changes - think of him as Ironman. Then we have Puck and Marrina. Puck astounds me. Ridiculous characters abound in both Marvel and DC universes but Puck is right up there. He tends to add “eh” to the end of sentences far too frequently. The fact that he began as bouncer in a Toronto pub is too funny. Marrina is a throwaway.

Back to Quebec characters. Sasquatch refers to Aurora as a “French pastry”. The me-too movement is not in evidence. The French “spoken” is way more France-French than Québécois. Northstar has a complex history. He was separated from his twin early in life, joined a militant separatist organization (he renounces terrorism), became an Olympic skiing great, cared for a baby with HIV, and was the first superhero to come out ... and have a same-sex wedding!

Along the way we meet Elder Trudeau and learn Wolverine is truly Canadian and a Canadian project. Those two bits entertain. Unfortunately, the majority of adventures involve something old and menacing buried under northern Canadian soil. It gets repetitive.

Luckily, the chuckles are in steady supply with the dialogue and descriptors like “Montreal, the gleaming gemstone in Quebec’s crown” and “Manitoba, Canada’s most eastern prairie province”! Having hailed from Manitoba, I still laugh at that unique differentiator. If you come from Manitoba, you know it is full of spirited energy.

There has been talk of an Alpha Flight movie. I hope it takes place in the ‘80’s so it can be highly stereotypical and inappropriate.