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Wallace Sellars
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Puck and Sasquatch routinely traded places as my favorite member of Alpha Flight.
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Rodrigo castellanos
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Ha
Heh.
You can dislike it all you please, but it is what it is.
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Mark Haslett
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R: it is what it is
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Yeah. Another categorical error.
No one was talking about “sales” or “critics”.
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Paul Kimball
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thanks for the info on Major Domo John, I had never heard of him and will look
him up. Very interesting.
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Andrew Bitner
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It's funny--I never had any difficulty identifying Puck as drawing his name (and tumbling fighting style) from hockey's object of conflict. I mean... it's pretty clear, isn't it?
And I quit reading when Eugene's "secret history" was revealed. Ye gods.
Edited by Andrew Bitner on 09 May 2025 at 2:35am
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John Byrne
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It's funny--I never had any difficulty identifying Puck as drawing his name (and tumbling fighting style) from hockey's object of conflict. I mean... it's pretty clear, isn't it?••• Yeah, I figured that the cartwheels would be a giveaway!!
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John Byrne
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WATCHMEN, which you cited first, is inarguably the most successful superhero comic of all time, critically and commercially.••• Superman would like a word with you…
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Matt Hawes
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I know I've read interviews with JB in the past, and comments here from him, regarding Puck's name, but on occasion I still forget that he was named after the disc used in hockey, thinking more of the sprite from "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Knowing JB's love of the Bard, either makes sense to me as an origin for the name.
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Doug Centers
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Knowing Puck is Canadian and me being from "Hockeytown" there was no doubt right or wrong the origin of that name.
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John Byrne
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When I created Puck I had some concern that as a Canadian character his costumed identity might be a bit too precious. I was surprised to discover some folk thought that he took his name from Robin Goodfellow.
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James Woodcock
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Guilty as charged.
I was 14, living in the UK.
Never occurred to me that he was not based on Robin Goodfellow, which we
were studying in school.
And I’ve never revisited that assumption in all my years.
So, I’m embarrassed to say, this has been something of a revelation to me.
One that seems so obvious when I consider the spinning circles and the
colour of his suit.
However, why are we discussing Puck in a thread called lame characters?
He was anything but under JB, and he has not appeared in any comics since
JB left Alpha Flight has he?
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