Alpha Flight, Vol. 2: Waxing Poetic

Alpha Flight (2004)

by Scott Lobdell, Dave Ross (Artist), Clayton Henry (Artist)

Is the all-new, all-different Alpha Flight really disbanding already? Not if the rest of the Marvel Universe has anything to say about it Montreal faces its gravest hour as it falls under attack by... wax statues of the entire Marvel Universe? Plus: Can Alpha Flight pull itself together in time to save this crown jewel of Quebec? Continuing the Marvel tradition of classic time-traveling stories Former Alpha Flight ally Flashback comes begging our heroes to time-jump to the past and stop his future self from dying in an attack that involves the original Alpha Flight, and... Omega Flight Collects Alpha Flight #7-12

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Superheroes

144 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 2005

About the author

Scott Lobdell (born 1960) is an American comic book writer.

He is mostly known for his work throughout the 1990s on Marvel Comics' X-Men-related titles specifically Uncanny X-Men, the main title itself, and the spin-off series that he conceived with artist Chris Bachalo, Generation X. Generation X focused on a number of young mutant students who attempted to become superheroes in their own right at a separate school with the guidance of veteran X-related characters Banshee and Emma Frost. He also had writing stints on Marvel's Fantastic Four, Alpha Flight, and The Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix mini-series with artist Gene Ha. He wrote the script to Stan Lee's Mosaic and an upcoming film from POW Entertainment featuring Ringo Starr. He also participated in the Marvel Comics and Image Comics (from Jim Lee's WildStorm) crossover mini-series WildC.A.T.s/X-Men.

Reviews

[Jdetrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

Again, not bad, but trying just a little too hard.

[Printable Tire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually like this one. Y'know, it wasn't half bad! The last 6 issues of the series weren't as glib/confusing as the first 6 issues, and while it's unfortunate the whole thing had to end with a confusing parody of a time travel paradox story, the MANipulator issues demonstrate the direction average standalone story lines could have gone. I actually think the character development was well paced and interesting. Each member was sort of buddied up with another one but you could see how they were going to interact with other members. Not half bad, and it got me at least slightly interested in reading the original Alpha Flight comics, which is more than I could ever say beforehand. I think the main drawback for me here was each issue seemed really short and relied way too much on padded splash pages, and any actual action scenes were way too "postmodernly" uninteresting.

[Jimbo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great story of the All New All Different Alpha Flight. The stories that gave us a greater background to the new team time travel paradoxes, magic, the original team (just like the last series - the original team and the new team create one big team by the end of this series) We don't to find out what happens to them (just like the last time) Possible Greg Pak's story will connect the dots.

Some times, I was not sure if one series happened before or after or in a different universe - nothing was given to us, but the stories were good and fun.

The art by Henry and Ross the colors by Morales and McKenna were beautiful.

Thanks for the fun.

[Lillian Francis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Time travel hurts my head. But I love that no one else seemed to understand what was going on either. The covers were brilliant homages. Tbh the art overall was great. And bearded time travelled Maple Leaf was my favourite. I lost track of the story quite early on and just went along for the ride.
And the end made absolutely no sense, but hey ho.

[Derek Newman-Stille · Rating 1 out of 5]

More Marvel portraying the rest of the world outside of the US as a garbage heap and the butt of American jokes

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

The ALL NEW, ALL DIFFERENT Marvel was pretty much a total waste of time.

[Erik · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just like the other trade....goofy,smart,wait what and awww.

[Nenya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still friggin hilarious. Alpha Flight attempts time travel! It goes about as well as you would expect. I love all the idiots in this bar. <3