Heather is hot.
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tocryaboutI'm not sure if vol. 2 of Alpha Flight is awesome just because it's so much better than vols. 1 and 3, or if it's actually good in its own right. I'm going to go with the second option, I guess, even though there is a distinct and sad lack of the Beaubiers.
The magic of internet scans, however, are reminding me of how very, very, very bad Alpha Flight was a lot of the time. In writing The Heart's Landscape I've been relying on issue summaries and my own contempt for canon, because I honestly didn't remember much about Alpha Flight beyond Guardian's hilarious costume and Jean-Paul's historical announcement that HE. WAS. GAY. (A Part of Our Heritage.) We had a box of Alpha Flight comics that we got from some garage sale, which also had a Thor colouring book and some surprisingly awesome religious comics depicting the Passion. ("TRULY...this man WAS the SON of GOD!") So all this is new to me once again.
So c'mon, we all like bad comics, right?
Whatever, Marvel. This is not even a defence. Spelling the name of a well-known city correctly isn't going to interrupt the action. I wouldn't want to be a big beardo about this -- they don't have to know the correct way to greet a nun or address an MP, for instance -- but goddammit, maps are freely available.
There's no excuse for this either. Trudeau is probably the easiest (and most fun) PM to caricature, and look what they did to him.
However, I've always loved that (a) our superheroes work for the government and (b) we can't even afford to maintain their department. That's realism! +5, Marvel.
Any relation to Joey? (I like this; Joey Smallwood references are OK by me.) We'll ignore the weird incest/amphibian sex thing they're talking about here, and we'll even be charitable and ignore the bucket of Maritime stereotypes (inbred, dim-witted, red-headed sea captains are go). But...that shirt.
Well...maybe he likes that shirt.
He really likes it.
Now come on! We do not wear that much flannel, okay? Even Indian doctors/medicine men/stereotypes.
Note: I did go through a period in grade 8 where I only wore flannel shirts, jeans, and workboots, but (a) it was the grunge era, and (b) it was stupid.
Have a look at Heather's shirt, though:
LOLOCAUST. [If you can't read it, it says Fuddle Duddle.] No, seriously, I want one.
Heather later became much less dowdy (vol. 2). And she is apparently an NDP voter.
She's also the smarter one of the bunch:
Amen, sister. And don't listen to anyone who says you can't compete with the competition:
This character becomes AWESOME if you read her lines in the voice Dave Foley used for his francophone whore character Jocelyn. (Dave is the next best thing to gay, apparently.) In fact, I'm going to choose to believe that all of Alpha Flight was meant to be Kids in the Hall-esque high comedy.
Otherwise Captain Canada is the best superhero we've produced (except, you know, Superman), and that's just depressing.
The magic of internet scans, however, are reminding me of how very, very, very bad Alpha Flight was a lot of the time. In writing The Heart's Landscape I've been relying on issue summaries and my own contempt for canon, because I honestly didn't remember much about Alpha Flight beyond Guardian's hilarious costume and Jean-Paul's historical announcement that HE. WAS. GAY. (A Part of Our Heritage.) We had a box of Alpha Flight comics that we got from some garage sale, which also had a Thor colouring book and some surprisingly awesome religious comics depicting the Passion. ("TRULY...this man WAS the SON of GOD!") So all this is new to me once again.
So c'mon, we all like bad comics, right?
Whatever, Marvel. This is not even a defence. Spelling the name of a well-known city correctly isn't going to interrupt the action. I wouldn't want to be a big beardo about this -- they don't have to know the correct way to greet a nun or address an MP, for instance -- but goddammit, maps are freely available.
There's no excuse for this either. Trudeau is probably the easiest (and most fun) PM to caricature, and look what they did to him.
However, I've always loved that (a) our superheroes work for the government and (b) we can't even afford to maintain their department. That's realism! +5, Marvel.
Any relation to Joey? (I like this; Joey Smallwood references are OK by me.) We'll ignore the weird incest/amphibian sex thing they're talking about here, and we'll even be charitable and ignore the bucket of Maritime stereotypes (inbred, dim-witted, red-headed sea captains are go). But...that shirt.
Well...maybe he likes that shirt.
He really likes it.
Now come on! We do not wear that much flannel, okay? Even Indian doctors/medicine men/stereotypes.
Note: I did go through a period in grade 8 where I only wore flannel shirts, jeans, and workboots, but (a) it was the grunge era, and (b) it was stupid.
Have a look at Heather's shirt, though:
LOLOCAUST. [If you can't read it, it says Fuddle Duddle.] No, seriously, I want one.
Heather later became much less dowdy (vol. 2). And she is apparently an NDP voter.
She's also the smarter one of the bunch:
Amen, sister. And don't listen to anyone who says you can't compete with the competition:
This character becomes AWESOME if you read her lines in the voice Dave Foley used for his francophone whore character Jocelyn. (Dave is the next best thing to gay, apparently.) In fact, I'm going to choose to believe that all of Alpha Flight was meant to be Kids in the Hall-esque high comedy.
Otherwise Captain Canada is the best superhero we've produced (except, you know, Superman), and that's just depressing.
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Date: 2005-12-23 04:58 am (UTC)Anyway, they had really great art for what they were, and were not too schmaltzy.
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Date: 2005-12-23 05:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-23 05:46 am (UTC)Occuption: unemployed
Not to be confused with: Captain Canada, partner of Beaver Boy
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Date: 2005-12-23 09:53 pm (UTC)"Our version of Captain America is unemployed" is pure comedy.
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Date: 2005-12-24 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-31 07:14 am (UTC)