I was hoping the Brass Bishop would make an appearance someday, either as a character or item, but only in the hands of JB.

...a tale that would never be told...

But...doesn't everything in a character's past have to be shown? Who wants mystery...or to use their imagination? Show us...everything!!

Let's just call him Bishop, Brass/Bronze?!?

On a side note, the very way JB wrote those issues of AF was unique, at least to the times, in that it had a Justice League of America feel to it.  Like in the old JLA days, you would know who was in the book by the Roll Call.  Not every member of the JLA had to star in every tale, same feel with early Alpha Flight.  Almost a year of solo or team up stories (Sasquatch and Aurora/ Puck solo / Snowbird solo / Northstar and Aurora) and then something big would unite the team.  Not sure any team book takes that approach.  It seemed natural to me and fun.  Still a team book, but come on, these heroes have lives, they aren't always hanging together!

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Thanks. Kind of my revolt against the way many writers seem to like shoring up the credibility of their characters by hijacking the backstory of other. Sufficient to say Judd and Logan had MET, without turning it into anything more than that.

 Thus, we could imagine that there was a Guardian book, a Shaman book, a Northstar & Aurora book, and so on.

That is exactly how it felt!  They may not have their own books, but you were actually reading their own books, in the AF book.  Too bad this isn't carried out in other creators team books.  You can't tell me all the New Avengers are always together, or the New Avengers or Secret or whatever they are calling themselves this week, until the next reboot or event where we start numbering them from one again with new names.  Sorry, I digress.....