Thursday, November 21, 2019

Hey, my set was shorted Witchfire and Windshear!


Good news! I got my Alpha Flight Marvel Legends from Amazon! Bad news, I haven't had time to open it yet, so let's look at an Alpha Flight comic I somehow had handy! From 1991, Alpha Flight #94, "Mind Over Matter" Written by Fabian Nicieza, pencils by Michael Bair, inks by Mike Manley.

Since this was several years into the title's run, the titular team's roster was much larger than the eight figures that have come out this year: original Guardian James "Mac" Hudson was back, although currently he was Vindicator and his wife Heather was Guardian. This issue also features Windshear and Witchfire, although the latter may have been from the trainee program Beta Flight. (Looking it up, she would be Belasco's daughter and the bad guy in the X-Infernus mini.) Windshear I had seen more of; he was a mutant with hard-air powers and a suit of armor from Roxxon. That entry said he lost his powers but was still active under the name 'Chinook,' which is awful. (It's a Native American name for a type of wind, but also a small town near my hometown!)

This issue guest-stars the Fantastic Four, and half of them and four Alphans are mind-controlled by Headlok into fighting the others, in the Canadian town of Tuktoyaktuk. It goes pretty quickly, although after getting slapped around by the Invisible Woman, Windshear wonders if he has what it takes. That was a bit of set up for the next issue, where he, Aurora, and Diamond Lil all do some respective soul-searching.

Also, Sasquatch beats down the Thing, even repeatedly chipping chunks off of him! It's not the decisive win it appears to be: Ben was human, and wearing a Thing exo-suit. This would've been set just before Walt Simonson's Fantastic Four #350, which came out the same month. There's also a Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation this issue: Paid circulation, actual number of copies of single issue published nearest to filing date, 96,220.

1 comment:

Mr. Morbid's House Of Fun said...

I can't wait to you're able to open those bad boys up and use them in skits.