Jim McCann To Write Northstar And Crew
Jim McCann takes on the "Alpha Flight" crew in a one-shot coming out this November. Personally, I'm not too well acquainted with the team outside of their appearance in the Ultimate universe, where they were mostly "the pricks that nearly killed Northstar". But pre-release interviews indicate that he'll be playing up the team's dysfunctional tendencies, and McCann's become my go-to guy for Marvel team-ups with his ongoing Hawkeye & Mockingbird, a book that's keen to show its characters' faults without the usual level of bordering-on-absurd grittiness that's come to characterize psychologically sensitive comics. Look for a review once Chaos War hits later this year.
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Posted to Comics on 17 August 2010
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I'm guessing this will be yet another new team, what with most of the original team having died to whatshisname and then half of the replacement Omega Flight either dying, joining Osborn or going back to the US.
Or maybe they're gonna resurrect the old team.
In a way...worse. If this Chaos War tag has anything to do with it, it seems likely the team will be brought present from some previous point in their timeline? (God I hate hate hate time travel) Jim McCann seems like an awesome writer, but geez, god, why does it have to be timetravel?
I've always thought Northstar and Aurora were badass, (but whats up with brother/sister twins at Marvel with the one being "arrogant" speedster and the sister being absolutley crazy?) but it seems like so few writers actually want to do anything with them. The more Northstar screentime we get the better.