Alpha Flight is getting set up in their keen new headquarters in Toronto, although I did raise an eyebrow at the notion that emergencies requiring superhuman help would be routed to the Avengers, Russia's People's Protectorate, or Excalibur? AF has a top-of-the-line set up and official status; I'm not sure Excalibur had phone service. Also, apparently if you're in the southern hemisphere, you're on your own.
Meanwhile, in deep space, Her is on, um, Her way to earth, being chased by an alien battle fleet. She's trying to get to New York and her "only Terran acquaintance--Ben Grimm" but lands in Canada instead. As you might've guessed, this being an Alpha Flight comic and all. She crash-lands in a mall--they used to be a thing, remember? Elsewhere in space, on the planet Quwrll, the locals witness the arrival of the herald of Galactus, Nova, and know they're hosed.
Vindicator, Guardian, Northstar, and Box greet the injured Her; without the traditional Marvel misunderstanding brawl. As the aliens pursuing Her arrive, she explains they are the Consortium, intergalactic capitalist bastards. She had helped a world return from industrial to agricultural, and wrecked one of their business interests. Since Alpha Flight refuses to give Her up, the Consortium ships do a lot of damage to the city, then a larger "home office vessel" arrives...
This was of course building up to Alpha Flight #100, and was also reprinted as a four-part Alpha Flight Special. That might've been for newsstand distribution? Or maybe crowding competition off of the racks; there's an ad for the reprint Deathlok Special here as well. Her was also using the name J'ridia here, but she would be Her again when she showed up in Quasar later that year; and she would be a supporting character there for most of the rest of that series.
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