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Nathan Greno
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https://13thdimension.com/john-byrnes-alpha-flight-the-top-1 3-stories-ranked/
I like most of the stories on this list... but I would have shuffled that order around...
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Andrew Bitner
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I would certainly include probably all of those stories in a top-of-series list, though I would not have put X-MEN/ALPHA FLIGHT at the top by any means.My favorite story of JB's run is probably issue #12.
Edited by Andrew Bitner on 07 July 2020 at 10:52am
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Mark Haslett
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I'm becoming convinced that "lists" should be seen, without exception, as the
work of internet trolls.
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Nathan Greno
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I think we have the same taste when it comes to this list, Andrew 👍🏻
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Leigh DJ Hunt
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I like Fred Van Lente as a writer but I don't agree with some of his comments here. Saying that, it's an article clearly written as a fan, like us. And lucky him, he got to write a later volume of AF and actually tried to recapture the Byrne years - which is impossible, of course.
and yeah I'm really not having a non-Byrne story as both #1 and 2!
Edited by Leigh DJ Hunt on 08 July 2020 at 1:49am
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Darren Taylor
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Interesting list Nathan, thanks for posting.
Number 12 has a special place for me but that is really effective due to the work put in by the issues that preceded it.
Stand alone issue, #5, Puck in hospital at number 1.
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Marc Baptiste
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I am second to none in my love of JB's ALPHA FLIGHT run, but it does seem a little odd to me to have a list of 13 TOP stories for a run of 28 issues.
I mean when you consider 2-part stories, etc. you might as well be ranking the entire run.
Marc
Edited by Marc Baptiste on 08 July 2020 at 5:31am
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James Woodcock
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OK, this is a real time post as I'm reading through the
lost.
First few entries - lots of snark thrown at the plot.
There is the claim that #139 is the first time someone
calls Wolverine Logan. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. That
would be the Leprechaun, way, way back before #139.
Then you have Mac in #109, and THEN you have Wolverine
to Mariko in an earlier issue as well. So I guess this
is well researched.
How on earth did AF#12 not make number 1??????
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Vinny Valenti
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It's the first time someone called him Logan in front of any of the X-Men, at least. It's great that it's Heather to do that, in her premiere panel, no less.
I don't think JB would be interested, but I'd love to see him take a crack at rescripting #139/140.
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James Woodcock
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I know that Vinny, but that is not what is stated in the article. My point
stands.
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Charles Nelson
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Hey Marc, One of the conceits of that site is that all his lists are Top 13. He regularly posts 13 covers by so-and-so on the artist's birthday, that sort of thing. It does sometimes require some shoe-horning, but it's such a good-natured site, focusing on comics of my youth, that I stop in regularly.
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Thomas Moudry
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I re-read JB's Alpha Flight (from X-Men to his final AF issue) last year and
found it to be even more engaging than I remembered. The development of the
characters over the course of the first 12 issues was excellent, and the build-
up to the big moment in #12--as well as the big moment itself--was intense
and ultimately jaw-dropping.
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